Please help us translate the World of Goo App Store text!
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Wed, 09/28/2011 - 15:44
Hi everyone! Ron from 2D BOY here, asking for your help...
We want to make the game more accessible to people who don't speak English, so we'd like to translate the description of the game on the App Store to French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. If you're interested in helping, we started a google doc that you can all edit collaboratively to add translated text.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eymuz00APbdI1iEBnDUlgIUttL_9Krgrujgr...
Much love and thanks from the 2d boys,
Ron and Kyle
ps: if you have any questions you can email me directly, i'm ron at 2dboy.
Wow! Ron?
I've never seen you on the site before!
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o_o ron!
I'll take a whack at Spanish in a bit. Maybe some of the Japanese text. Always happy to help.
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-_-Ron and Kyle have accounts made by David, but to my knowledge they've never used them until today.
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K, did the translation for Spanish on the iPad description.
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K, corrected and completed german translation.
I'm happy to help too.
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Hello ron.
@laobubu made a simplified chinese version already and lots of people are playing this version. He is improving the chinese version these days.
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Mygod, he's talking about the App Store descriptions, not the actual game text.
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Sorry. I made a mistake. I think I can do that next month.
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Willingly I contributed to the translation into Spanish
hey guys, thanks for the warm welcome, it's true, my first time using the goofans forums, unless i'm senile and i forgot
and thanks for helping out with the translations, spread the word!
I've just done the French translation. I've got some concerns about a few sentences, so I hope someone else will look into it.
I don't know for the other non-English-speaking countries, but I think it would be a good idea to put some awards from the actual country websites instead of IGN.
You aren't senile, at least not in the sense you were thinking about.
Tracking your user doesn't lead to anything except this forum topic. Kyle's only leads to his three billboard sample images.
I'll do some of the Japanese text in a bit.
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did Italian and simplified Chinese. i think.
-_-Working on the Chinese (simplified). Not machine translate.
EDIT: Finished.
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wow, it's almost done! just need italian and japanese... i'll go see if i can recruit anyone...
i'll do it, but it may need revision.
-_-done!
-_-Just as long as you didn't use Google Translate, it'll be fine.
I'll do Japanese eventually...
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whoops... i used google translate.
sorry about that, now people have to do extra work.
-_-Erase your translations. Google Translate distorts the text so much!
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erased. again, so sorry.
-_-Anyone may review the translation into Spanish? ... O_o
jalex, my friend noel said he took a look at it and it's good. he made a couple of small changes.
OK .... I'm glad the translation is well ... was a pleasure working
Just correct some translation of Chinese. (already told @mygod)
Why is it that the one time Ron comes on Goofans, my internet goes crazy?
Anyway, about all the translation stuff... I can't do much without Google Translate. Even my Dutch is pretty shabby.
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RedTheGreen is right, google translate is a very low quality translation, i wouldn't have asked for help if all i needed to do was run the text through google translate
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Here's what Google Translate does to the phrase "World of Goo":
"World of Goo" -> Chinese
"Planet Sticky" -> Persian
"Universal Adhesive" -> Latvian
"Universal Glue" -> Greek
"Global Team" -> Thai
"World-Class Team"
Another Planet finally has an official release! Download chapters 1 through 3 here! Thank you for waiting so long while I kept starting over.