Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 19:15:13 05/17/00
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On May 17, 2000 at 15:34:05, Michel Langeveld wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 21:29:55, Vincent Vega wrote: > >>On May 16, 2000 at 19:02:28, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On May 16, 2000 at 17:00:34, Vincent Vega wrote: >>> >>>>On May 16, 2000 at 03:01:13, Bill Gletsos wrote: >>>> >>>>>Personally I thought your original comment regarding the translation was >>>>>childish and lacking any thought what so ever. It was good of Michael to do a >>>>>tranlation for those of us who cant read Dutch and all you could do was >>>>>criticise his translation. You could have thanked Michael for his efforts >>>>>without criticizing him. >>>>> I have to agree with Albert. If you dont like the translation do it yourself >>>>>next time. >>>>> >>>>>Bill >>>> >>>>You seem to have a very thin skin. The translation was clearly less than >>>>perfect and I said as much. If you have a problem with that I could care less. >>>>I didn't insult the translator, I didn't tell him not to translate again. >>>>Anybody that has ever created something knows that criticism will happen. Some >>>>of it will even be insulting to the person. Only those with a very thin skin >>>>take it personally. And only those with an extremely thin skin (and maybe some >>>>adequacy issues) would take a slight criticism of a ten-minute translation >>>>personally. >>> >>>I really do find it unfortunate that you simply don't understand. >>> >>>There was an act of spontaneous selflessness in which he allowed you to >>>understand a text that would have otherwise been unintelligible. I doubt it only >>>took him only ten minutes BTW, unless he does this as a profession, which does >>>not seem to be the case. >>> >>>Allow me an analogy: >>>You get a piece of homemade pie at a friend's house, which you eat down to the >>>last crumb. Which of the following do you do? : >>> >>>a) Tell him/her thanks for the pie. >>>b) Tell him/her you've had better. >>> >>> Albert Silver >> >>Bad analogy. Bad translation can very often be worse than no translation at all >>because the meaning of the original text gets distorted. I have seen this >>situation occur more than once. This can lead to people jumping to conclusions >>and getting upset at something that the original writer didn’t mean. It can't >>happen with a pie. > >Well, well, well, I think this is not the case in this situation. And I think >you exaggerate a little. If you have comments on my English then try to write >something in Dutch yourself. I wasn't say that it was the case here, just that bad translations aren't necessarily better than no translations. > >Anyway you can read a better translation at: >http://www.nkschaken.nl at the english section. > >Note this text was published about 36 hours later.... I don't see how such a small delay would hurt anybody. Only the Fritz team could really be affected but they didn't need the translation in the first place.
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