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Post by **Sneaky** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:50 am

I can't speak authoritatively, but I think that this is EXTREMELY difficult. I'm certain that translating the actual posts will pose huge problems, and the content other than the forums is tiny.

Post by **Imdat tauble** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:58 am

get him/her to go to www.google.com and look up the site there. They have an automatic translator.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:11 am

Forget the French. If they want to start their own website, let them. Encourage them to use web translations tools or speak English.

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Geophrim · Post by **Geophrim** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:19 am

As an ex-translater of Japanese (to English) I can tell you all that translation programs will only get across the minimal gist of what you are attempting to say--often garbling all subtleties. A possible compromise solution would be the selection of certain "article/essay" or "tactics" pieces and just translating those. To translate the whole page would take somebody working full-time (and would cost prohibitive amounts of money).

Nedorus · Post by **Nedorus** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:06 am

I completely argee with Furion... there is no need to put up a french translation here. If the french players want their own site, then I'm sure everyone will be glad to help, but this is an international forum where everyone posts in english. Not beeing able to speak english in todays world is crippling at best. Most everyone else here is able post and read in english.

The french government should encourage their people to learn english, instead of discouraging them, and bogging them down with stupid laws. Take the dutch for instance. Every dutch I've ever met and that includes little children, and I'm not exagerating here, was able to speak at least three different languages (besides dutch that is).

Oooops ... maybe I went over the top here a little ... but I do get kind of carried away when it gets to that nationalistic language thing... And before everyone starts thowing shiz at me ... no I'm not a native english speaker either as you can tell by my spelling most of the time

And by the way: there are loads of french Warhammer sites: http://www.warhammer-forum.com/ is one of them.

Nedorus

Harlequinn · Post by **Harlequinn** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:54 pm

I'd just tell the guy that we don't have a French site because the founder of the site is an American whose native language is English, and when he originally started this thing he had no idea it would be the globe spanning site that we know it as today.

Wed Nov 26, 2003 3:15 pm

also who the heck wants to spend so much time translating ?! it would be a full time job

Friedmalekith · Post by **Friedmalekith** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 9:35 pm

Well, being of French origin I'm pretty confused by your reaction.

Aragon, they play a lot of Warhammer in France, and we play it a lot here in Quebec too. Some of the best painters in the world are in France too.

Anyway, if this person can read this message, I'd be more than happy to help him. Just PM me with the message you want to send in french and I'll do my best to translate it.

Cheers!

Aragon · Post by **Aragon** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:07 pm

sorry if i affended you but any complaints send them to sureal it runs in blood :cry:

Post by **Lord Thalack** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:57 pm

Aragon, I've deleted your post. Please refrain from making such comments again.