16 replies to this topic

[skolo]

Hello everybody,

I was wondering if there is any reason why explorecrete.com would not be also in Polish language? There is no problem for me, and as I spoke with Wally, for other whitey-reds here to make some effort and bring also Polish language here. Any technical problems?

It could be the biggest Polish language encyclopedia about Crete here!


Yannis? Anybody?

[Tim]

Yannis speaks a few languages but I am fairly sure Polish is not one of them. Some translations have been done by people such as Birgit.
Are you offering your services to Yannis? Maybe you should drop him an email, address it to the webmaster.

[skolo]

i think you got me wrong- i dont want yannis to prepare polish version

exactly what i want to do - to translate to polish. for fun, for people, using my free time. i`m not alone in this.

i do know also Wally and others were sending e-mails to yannis with no clear response. i did couple of days ago. the same "nothing"

[Wim]

When I started one or two threads in Dutch, just to see if it would attract some more Dutch members/readers, I was informed by Yannis that it was not a good idea because there are no moderators on this forum who can read/write Dutch.

It is the moderators task to control the contents of board messages, so if they don't speak/read the lingo they can't moderate ustalony?
This is an international site about Crete, and only English is used since almost the whole world reads/writes it as far as I understood.

Anyhow "skolo" imagine some members would start threads in; Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Rumanian etc. etc.

[Tinks]

I think you'll find he is referring to the website being in Polish (which it is already in several other languages), not the forum.

[Katarina]

Hi Skolo, I think it's a great idea and you probably haven't heard from Yannis because it is one of the biggest holiday weeks in Greece, I'm sure if you made it clear you were offering to translate for free he will take you up on the offer.

[Wim]

Oop Tink, missed that one.

[Wally]

Dear Wim,

I was missing your comments for last few days…
But as always you did not let me down!
I owe you so much fun today

How come you haven’t notice that Explore Crete is run in a few languages???

The little flags on very top of the EC, just under the banner, indicates that it is available not only Greek, English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish but also in Russian and Chinese.

I’m sure Skolo offered some free of charge assistance in translation into Polish but not running or translating the forum!

I do agree with you that English is most universal language all over the world but it would be nice to help in sharing the information on Crete with people who don’t know English or aren’t fluent in it.


Best regards,
Włodek

[skolo]

Thank you people!
Is that so hard to understand that I would like to try translating "Exploring the Crete" part of this web site, not the forum? Wim, come one...its not so hard

Regards,

[Henry Hooray]

Hi Skolo - personally I couldn't possibly have anything against translating this wonderful website into any language you care to mention - but is it really necessary, is it really advantageous?

I know that for instance most Danes can understand and read English very well, and I believe that so do many Poles (and one or two Dutch people as well ). Isn't it all a little superfluous?

Just wondering - but good luck whatever!

Henry.

[skolo]

Henry I would like to belive that so many Poles can understand english Real life shows something else

[Wim]

Come on Henry,

You didn't do your homework well. There are actually 3 Dutch people that speak (and write) English
All the others speak German, French, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Moroccan, Tunisian, Greek, Egyptian, Yiddish, Turkish, Persian and so on. Yes sir, we're an international lot.....

Ha, even some do speak Dutch, but not for long anymore, I'm afraid

And, as for Wally, yes I'm getting older and less curious by the day. Often wondered what those little flags are for on that overwhelming home page. So, following your advise, I clicked the Dutch one and found out that it opened a whole new world to me.

[Wally]

10/10

[yannis_s]

Dear Skolo,
I am sorry for the late reply, but I have been very busy with a new project, which has entirely absorbed my energy and attention.
Translating the site to Polish is a generous offer and I may accept your offer in the future, but for the moment it would be very difficult for me to add another language version of the Explorecrete site. It takes a lot of my time already to update the English pages and then update the translated pages in 8 more languages.

[Pam]

Hi, Yannis and great to see you back on the forum and contributing. I hope your new project has been or will be successful - please let us know what it is when you're ready.

All the best

Pam & Bob

[skolo]

hm..strange. ok than, no polish language.
regards

[Katarina]

Hi Yannis
We all appreciate the hard work that maintaining such a great site must be but I think it is a shame that you can't add Polish - the poles and czechs are coming more and more to Crete and the ones that I've met are good, polite tourists who love the island and the way of life.
If Skolo is offering his service free of charge then it would be nice to have just a few pages - even if not regularly updated - in his language.
Thanks again for a useful and friendly site
K