Monday, January 28, 2008

What if a language just does not have the word for it?

Pennsylvania Deitsch is a language spoken by some 100.000 people in North America. It does not have a separate word for Dutch, German and English. The question is how do you localise for this language when it is important to differentiate between these languages ...
Thanks,
GerardM

2 comments:

MovGP0 said...

"Deitsch" ist basicly the Bavarian word for "Deutsch", which ist the german word for "German".

I guess you can use the bavarian words. But if not: you don't really need to translate a meaning - right?

GerardM said...

Actually I do. In the localisation you want to indicate that a word is German, Dutch or English. When the word is the same in translation, you effectively cannot.
Thanks,
GerardM