Hi Waheed,
Given the importance
of context in a translation, I think you can’t translate pieces of sentences
out of their original context. Obviously some words and expressions have sometimes
two (or more) different meanings, depending on what the author wants to convey.
And Dakwak mainly displays pieces of sentences, which makes it difficult to understand
where they come from and how they should be translated. In my opinion, displaying
the full sentences or event the full text (when relevant of course) would be of
some help, because as it is now, one has to go back and forth from one site (Dakwak)
to the other (DuckDuckGo) to be able to translate properly. Which makes the
whole thing kind of annoying.
One
particular problem I have encountered while trying to modify the donttrack.us
page: I tried to modify a whole sentence including a link. But modifying the whole
structure of the sentence would have meant modifying the part corresponding to
the link, which I couldn’t do. So being able to translate the full sentence and
then to place the link on the right
words would be very helpful.
As for the
utility of translating DuckDuckGo, I believe in the importance of making it as
clear as possible for everyone if we want it to succeed outside English
speaking countries. For example the Privacy page (as well as donttrack.us and
dontbubble.us) is in my opinion essential to convince people of the importance
of privacy on the Web, and thus of the utility of DuckDuckGo. I think this page
among others needs a proper translation to reach people. Maybe a good way of
making it happen would be to have it translated by a dedicated translator or
group of translators. I am of course ready to help to the full extent of my
abilities, so please feel free to ask! :)
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