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Post by Webmaster on Jun 21st, 2003, 12:33pm
Who wants a forum in their own language of choice? I added a Japanese forum, but certainly French, Spanish, German and other languages could be well represented here. Reply here to request a forum for a language other than English. Please include translations for "[your language here] F-Zero forum" and "Talk about F-Zero in [your language here]".
Also, Antoine, I know I ask a lot of you sometimes for translations, but could you look at the title and description of the Japanese forum and tell me of any corrections needed to make it say "Japanese F-Zero forum" and "Talk about F-Zero in Japanese"? Thank you. And maybe you could mention this forum next time you are on their board. Re: Forums in other languages
Post by KEJackson on Jun 23rd, 2003, 09:21am
My Spanish is not at all means perfect, but I can try to translate the "Talk about F-Zero in Spanish". Talk is Habla. So, when you say it it is Habla con F-Zero en Espanol. Again, that is not completely perfect, but its close. KEJ. Note: Spanish is a good language for a forum, but I can't translate on a regular basis, as only having two Middle School Years of Spanish (one high school year equivelent). I was just trying to translate the title. Instead of saying F-Zero Spanish forum, you could also say "F-Zero en Espanol" and that will help. Just my two cents on this issue. KEJ
Re: Forums in other languages
Post by Tonio on Jun 23rd, 2003, 10:00am
I think a French forum would be nice.
"forum francais pour F-Zero" "discuter de F-Zero en francais"
what do you think Greg, Fred... ?
I think Japanese and French are the worst people at English. that's why.
Dave, I mentioned the japanese forum as soon as I saw it but no reaction. once again, they're happy with their own... Maybe if we use it as a link between the 2 communities : fzc members asking questions in english, jap players answering in Japanese or the other way, and I translating Anyway I'll find something to bring them here! (questions to the al-mighty J.Thai with translation for the dozens of diving techniques in Japanese...OMG).
GX will be decisive. Right now they all express the need for a ranking site, and if some (like the ones already registered) start competing using fzc, they'll get more and more interested and......
As for the title of the japanese forum, it seems perfect to me but I'll check it... tomorrow (mmmh today for you guys). need.........to....................sle...e....p
Re: Forums in other languages
Post by Webmaster on Jun 23rd, 2003, 10:42am
GX will be decisive. Right now they all express the need for a ranking site, and if some (like the ones already registered) start competing using fzc, they'll get more and more interested and......
Yes, if they flood here for GX, Japanese membership for the other games will follow ... which is great, but I don't think we can ever FULLY solve the language issue. We are all more comfortable in our own "environment."
I suspect that even if they come here at the release of GX, eventually one of them will say "Hey, why don't we just create our own competition site ... I'm tired of competing at a site based in a language that is foreign to us." And could you blame them if they think that? Not really.
By the way, I think that MAX 2000 will be having GX rankings. It's just a matter of how successful it will be compared to ours. If the top players in Japan go there and NOT here, it'll be very tough to draw them here.
Interestingly, I think that the best way to get them to come here for GX is to beat their times!! Antoine and Greg, isn't that why you joined sugi's site ... to compete directly with the very best in the world in FZMV? They might get the same idea if we can take the GX WRs quickly. So race your hearts out, it's for the good of FZC!!