Yesterday the french community got a big surprise when we saw that Steemit had finally been translated in french. As you can see in this post by 
, we already did a lot to try to bring Steem to the french people by translating the Steem Whitepaper together. The website translation was an obvious next step and it is awesome to see that it got translated so fast. If I understood correctly, we can thank and 
for their tremendous work on translating Steemit. However, they had little to no context to work with, which resulted in some hilarious and out of place translations. It's definitely not their fault, I want to make that clear. Since I'm on vacation right now, I decided to fix the french translation file by correcting as many problems as I could find.
, we already did a lot to try to bring Steem to the french people by translating the Steem Whitepaper together. The website translation was an obvious next step and it is awesome to see that it got translated so fast. If I understood correctly, we can thank and for their tremendous work on translating Steemit. However, they had little to no context to work with, which resulted in some hilarious and out of place translations. It's definitely not their fault, I want to make that clear. Since I'm on vacation right now, I decided to fix the french translation file by correcting as many problems as I could find.The corrections were as followed:
- Adding/Deleting white-spaces to fit the en.json file
- Adding/Deleting punctuation to fit the en.json file
- Adding the accentuation on uppercase accentuated characters
- Translating a tiny part that was not translated
- Changing translations to fit with their surrounding
- Standardizing some word translations (since the file was translated by two users)
I have to say that most of the translation was on point and I mainly had to perform the three first types of translations I talked about above. My version of the file is probably not perfect either and I can only encourage anyone who finds things to change to go on Github and change those things.
I took two liberties while correcting this file:
- Reverting the "Steem Power" and "Power Down/Up" translations back to their english version as I believe those are terms that shouldn't be translated, just like you wouldn't translate "Steemit" in "Vapeur ça".
- Changing the categories translations to the same words used on Busy. Instead of "en vogue, nouveau, chaud, promu", it is now "tendance, nouveau, hot, promu". "Hot" is rarely translated on websites using this term so it seemed logic to not translate it on Steemit either.
So there it is, I hope it will get accepted by Steemit !
Here is a link to the pull-request I just made: https://github.com/steemit/condenser/pull/1910/files
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