[NTLK] Gosh... is Spanish a wide language...

[Raphael Coiman]

I could not open your indicated link (unavailable) but if you felons exactly what's the meaning of each title in English I will certainly help you with a correct and short equivalent in Spanish. The translations you listed have no meaning in Spanish specially if this is related to an interface of a
Software. Please let me know.

Raphael A. Coiman, Sr

On Sep 27, 2010, at 22:28, David Gibson <david.gibson at wap.org> wrote:

>> 
>> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:59:18 +0200
>> From: "Frank Gruendel" <newtontalk at pda-soft.de>
>> Subject: [NTLK] Gosh... is Spanish a wide language... Please help me
>>    make    things shorter :-(
>> To: <newtontalk at newtontalk.net>
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>> 
>> Could those of you who speak Spanish please have a look here?
>> 
>>    <http://www.pda-soft.de/es/hardware/eMate/ematecable/ematecable.html>
>> 
>> I think you'll recognize my problems...
>> 
>> I need something shorter for
>> 
>> a) Mapa del Sitio (Site Map)
>> 
>> b) Caj?n de Sastre (This & That)
>> 
>> c) Un Grito de Ayuda (Cry for help)
>> 
>> d) Libro de Visitas (Guest book)
>> 
>> e) The banner text (eMate display cable)
>> 
>> All this fits perfectly in English and German :-(
>> 
>> I'd rather not line-wrap the text in banners and buttons. And I'd rather not
>> change the whole layout
>> for the Spanish section. I could of course make the font smaller, but this
>> would make the buttons on
>> the left-hand side much more difficult to read.
>> 
>> So any ideas will be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Frank
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, indeed, Spanish is a wide language. In the agency in which I work, they
>> produce a bi-lingual English-Spanish Engineering Newsletter. They gave up
>> producing it in parallel columns because the Spanish versions were always 25%
>> to 33% longer. They now produce it as two double sided newsletters bound
>> together with an English newsletter starting on one side of the booklet  and a
>> Spanish newsletter starting on the other side and both working towards the
>> middle. In this way, the fact that one newsletter has 25 to 33% more words
>> does not burn up white space.
>> 
>> The same simplicity of constructions and regular rules and simpler nouns and
>> adjectives which make Spanish one of the easiest languages to learn work
>> against making expressions short. The same complexities of construction,
>> irregular rules and multiplicity of words with almost the same meaning, but
>> not quite, make English a nightmare to learn. But the complexities also make
>> it easier to write English very concisely, expressively and in ways easy to be
>> misunderstand.
>> 
>> Have a nice week,
>> David
>> 
>> 
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