Akira Otani’s “The Night of Baba Yaga” is a genre-bending novel of violence and tenderness that defies easy categorization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/07/04/entertainment-news/akira-otani-the-night-of-baba-yaga-crime-writing-award/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews#japaneseliterature #akiraotani #sambett #thenightofbabayaga #translation #lgbtq #yakuza

Loving the power of occur in #Emacs, specifically multi-occur-in-matching-buffers in my case, for finding and listing in a single buffer all #regex matches from regex-filtered buffers. Searching across .csv terminology files this way gives me a buffer of search results, each line of which takes me to the line of the source file where the occurrence appears. Extremely useful in #translation work for searching across terminology dictionaries I've created in the past. Discovered via Mickey Petersen's Mastering Emacs. https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/searching-buffers-occur-mode

Driving schools in the Chubu region have started using translation apps that recognize spoken words and automatically translate them into other languages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/30/japan/japan-driving-school-translation-apps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #translation #apps #driving #foreignworkers #nagoya #mie

Any native Swedish speakers interested in helping review this translation of https://jointhefediverse.net?

https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/158

#fediverse#JoinTheFediverse #translation #localization #swedish

A little reminder to everybody on climatejustice.social (but it similarly also applies to all Mastodon servers).

If you're posting mostly in one language, please go to https://climatejustice.social/settings/preferences/other and set your primary posting language, if you haven't yet. It does not have to be the same as your interface language.

While you're there you can also filter languages. If you select any of the languages in the list, then only posts in that or those languages will display in public timelines for you. This does not work if people set their posts to the wrong language though.

If you regularly switch languages, please try to make a habit of manually selecting the posting language every time.

Apart from the language filters, some other advantages of setting the correct language:
* climatejustice.social and many other servers have a built in translation function, but it only works if the language is set correctly (this is especially important for moderators - you'll be making our live a lot easier)
* Alt text is also translated, so for accessibility, please always write your alt text in the post's language
* trends are language specific. if you set your posts to the wrong language, you could be spamming the trends for that language
* your account is recommended to people based on the set language(s) of your posts, if your privacy settings allow account recommendation
* if someone follows you and you post in different languages and actually set them correctly every time, they can go to your profile and select which of your languages they wand to subscribe to

#language #accessibility #translation #mastodon#BestPractices

🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language?

We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release!

No coding needed — just a love of words.

🔥 Join here: https://app.transifex.com/bonfire/bonfire/

P.S. You can also help by translating this very message and/or sharing it! The more communities we reach, the more accessible Bonfire becomes. 🌍💬

#Bonfire#Translation#Localization#FOSS#Fediverse

The current state of the translations is already pretty good as you can see. And if you want to help translating even more parts of the app please feel free to do so.

https://crowdin.com/project/pixelix

#Pixelix#Pixelfed#Crowdin #translation

Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago.

"Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven."

https://archive.is/2025.01.09-014218/https://www.economist.com/international/2014/09/27/cookies-caches-and-cows

#technology #language #linguistics #translation #localization

This year, we started collaborating with @Framasoft to include French as supported language, then it came the German, and as of version 3.5.0, LiberaForms also fala galego! 💚

Check out the translation progress, see which language might be next, and join us in expanding LiberaForms' accessibility!
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/liberaforms/

A big thank you to all translators and contributors for making this possible! 🙌

#L10n#Translation#Community#FOSS

Thank you to everyone sharing this!

The updates for the Chinese and Basque versions are completed, huge thanks to @mogita and @a_mento respectively.

I'd still appreciate help with the #Arabic version of the site.

#translation#TranslationHelp

EDIT May 2: Thank everyone for sharing, this has all been taken care of!

Could someone who speaks #Arabic, #Chinese, or #Basque help me update the https://jointhefediverse.net site? I'm trying to remove links to joinfirefish.org and want to make sure I do it right.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajointhefediverse-net%2Fjointhefediverse.net+firefish.org&type=code

Any help would be very appreciated!

#translation #localization#TranslationHelp#LocalizationHelp