Chinese translation is not good

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Sometimes I cannot catch the meaning of Chinese translation, so I have to swift to English UI.
It is funny. :slight_smile:
For example, “Splash Screen” should be described as “闪屏” in Chinese, but not “溅射屏幕”.
Why not let Avast! fans in China do this job? I am sure that they will do it better.

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i am quite agree with you,this task will be done splendidly by our Chinese

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So, go ahead… avast is translated by users and not by Alwil team (that does the Czech and the English version only).
Talk about that with Igor and you’ll help everybody to have a better translation of avast.

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I thought that Alwil had contracted a Chinese translator, I could be wrong though.

@ swico

I think that part of the problem is there might not be a literal translation, for example if I translate your suggestion it returns “Dodges the screen” and the other translates to “Sputtering screen.” So I’m sure there are similar problems going from English to Chinese Simplified.

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IMO, there are two possible reasons of the bad translation:

  1. The translator is not good at IT;
  2. The translator does not reside in Mainland China.

Oh, it is good news!

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As a Chinese descendant myself, I strongly believe that not all overseas or overseas-born Chinese are poor with Chinese simplified or traditional, though I’m not really one of them :wink:

Sometimes it’s true that overseas Chinese uses different terms or words to those in Mainland 8)

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As a matter of fact, the translation (to both Traditional- and Simplified-) Chinese has been done by our own Chinese staff. The lady lives in Prague but was born and raised in mainland China (but very near to Taiwan - so that she’s also proficient with Traditional Chinese).

Of course, if you have any corrections, please feel free to send’em in. Or even better, you can get in touch directly with Fay (that’s her name). I’ve told her to take a look at this thread.

Edit: oh I somehow forgot that she’s now on holidays. I think she’s coming back next week.

Thanks
Vlk

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Thanks for the prompt reply,
I will try to collect other chinese users’ proposals about correction and submit them to you.

Best regards,
Swico