[Caminol10n] Portuguese translation

[Markus Amalthea Magnuson]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 02:03, Felipe Ribeiro<felipernb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Due to some personal issues I'm not able to continue helping
> translating Camino to portuguese.
>
> This has been a hard year for me, because I'm finishing it's my last
> year on the graduation course (Computer Science), I'm working on a
> startup and participating on Google Summer of Code, so as I know that
> Camino 2.0 is about to be launched and I won't be able to help, I'd
> like to make it clear and open the place for someone else that can do.
>
> This year I've already disappointed Markus, that kindly asked me to
> translate a short movie to portuguese and I wasn't able to handle him
> in a reasonable time (I'm awfully sorry Markus) and I don't want to do
> the same with the Camino community. So I hope I can come back and help
> again soon, but now isn't possible for me.
>
> The governments of all the portuguese speaking countries have signed
> an agreement last year to unify the language, so someone that is from
> Brazil, Portugal or some portuguese speaking country of Africa may
> help on this task, although there are some small differences on the
> vocabulary,  the ortography is now unified.
>
> In Portugal they translate every single word, while in Brazil some
> words are still kept in english, like site, mouse and other small
> differences, but in general it's acceptable for one another.

After all, Camino is a project by volunteers, people have other things
going on in their lives that needs more attention at times. I wish you
great luck with your projects and your graduation! And don't worry
about the film either, we're doing fine :)
-- 
Markus Amalthea Magnuson

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