German Community Site/Blog/whatever

[Nico Knoll]

I'll translate the descriptions of the labels in the backend. So it shouldn't be that hard for you

[Joss]

ha!

Mind you, if I start with German and work back to English, the site will be tiny!

As a sound engineer I did a lot of multi-lingual dubbing work. A huge amount of it was into French and German. 

Spoken, German is significantly longer than English (if translated nicely) and with the verb at the end of the sentence, the subject and object would often be reversed.

If you had a long sentence, not only was the German too long, but no longer made sense to the picture!

We had two particularly wonderful translators, however, that managed to produce perfect fits. Andreas Klatt and the renowned Wolf Kahler. Wolf's voice, especially, was wonderful - he could roll his Rs all the way to lunchtime and still be on the same word!

Very nice site, by the way - I forgot to mention that.

[ryan]

Nico, what should the link on the main site say? I typed "ProcessWire German Site" into Google Translate and it gave me "ProcessWire deutsche Website" -- is that right? Or what is the best phrase/words to use here?

[Philipp]

Website is translated as "Webseite". Better would be "Deutsche Processwire Seite" (Sounds better) or "Processwire auf Deutsch" ("Processwire in German"). If you want to have Processwire at the beginning of the sentence it should be "Processwire: Deutsche Webseite"

[Joss]

Possibly "ProcessWire Deutsche" without the website?

Or even ProcessWire Deutschland

Perhaps just ProcessWire.de

[Philipp]

"ProcessWire Deutschland" -> correct

"Processwire Deutsch" -> correct, but sounds wrong to me

"ProcessWire Deutsche" -> wrong

Also "Deutsches Processwire" but not sure if this is right(it sounds wrong).

[Joss]

Yes, "Deutsches Processwire" is not so comfortable to say. 

What ever you choose, it should survive being said out loud - strangely, it makes it easier to read in your head. (Old writer's trick)

We don't actually need a British English version, but if one were created it would probably be called ProcessWire UK. So you could always go for ProcessWire FDR - Is that ever used like that in Germany?

I am having a lot of fun rolling the R in Process in my head! Sounds cool...

[Nico Knoll]

I would say: "ProcessWire Deutschland" or "ProcessWire auf Deutsch"

@Joss: would be ProcessWire DE not FDR

[Joss]

good point

Though I wasn't thinking of the domain, rather of the country.

BD?

[Nico Knoll]

Would be BRD. But normally you just use DE for the country as well as for the domain.

[Joss]

Just thinking of all the badges on the back of cars when we went on holiday throughout Europe when I was a kid.

Spotting those from the same country as us GB. Mind you - they were easy to find. We were the ones driving on the wrong side of the road!

[Nico Knoll]

Just a "D" on the new cars. 

[WillyC]

submit content.i do for processwire douche.site 

but now.wher gone?

[Joss]

Just a "D" on the new cars. 

Bit sad really. I liked the oval metal badges that you bracketed onto the rear bumper and the front grill.

Had a touch of class!

[Nico Knoll]

submit content.i do for processwire douche.site 

but now.wher gone?

Hold your horses! What are you talking about exactly?

[Pete]

I believe he means Deutsch site, which loads fine for me.

That or he wants to populate douche.processwire.com?

Edited February 20, 2013 by Pete
Failed to correctly spell the German word for "German" - epic fail

[typ9]

Just a "D" on the new cars. 

Whoa, is that your licence plate? Hoho, what a number.

[Nico Knoll]

Whoa, is that your licence plate? Hoho, what a number.

No, I'm from Berlin and 17 so I don't have a car. But I saw this picture and thought it is a good example

[diogo]

17, can you imagine? All the friends going to parties while Nico stays at home coding

[Nico Knoll]

Well... not really

Edited February 20, 2013 by Nico

[horst]

Hi,

if it could be of interest at some point for the however named 'Deutsche Seite': I've found a german translation of the GNU v.2 which is meant as an explanation to people not very familiar with english language, but not as a replacement of the original licence.

http://www.medien-kooperative.de/bibliothek_gnu_gpl_2_deutsch.html

[yellowled]

Website is translated as "Webseite". Better would be "Deutsche Processwire Seite" (Sounds better

I beg to differ. First of all, I would set that “Processwire-Seite”, but I really prefer “Webseite” or “Website” (untranslated). (Honestly, I don't really care as long as it's not “Homepage”.)

[Wanze]

In my opinion, this sentence sounds like a google translation from english to german:

Auf benutzerdefinierten Feldern basierend, mit einer einfach zu
nutzenden, jQuery-inspirierten API und einer beeindruckenden
Selektoren-Engine ist ProcessWire immer die richtige Wahl.

I'd choose a more active style of writing, for example:

Basierend auf benutzerdefinierten Feldern, einer einfachen jQuery-inspirierten API

sowie einer beeindruckenden Selektoren-Engine ist ProcessWire immer die richtige Wahl.

What do you guys think?

[Nico Knoll]

Changed it

[thomassausen]

Nice work so far. 

I was not active in PW-forums for some time, because I suffer on herniated disc (Bandscheibenvorfall). I'm so glad you did this site.