Translation issue

[zinogre]

The “a” dose not make any sense here. I can’t find this sentence in Crowdin. Can anyone help to change it?

[zinogre]

If possible, delete “由” in the sentence as well.

[earthknight]

Can you provide a link the the relevant post?

[robotpie]

I believe zinogre posted a screencap of the drop down notifications list. There is the inclusion of the “a” or “由” in each notification.

[optilete]

Without url is is difficult for people who do not understand chinese.

[pisum]

yup. you can see this if you change you language to Chinese (either Traditional or Simplified).

here’s an example of what i can see in the notification dropdown or in the dashboard page:

• in Chinese(T): “pynklynx添加一個鑑定至由katgrazer的a 觀察”
• in English: “pynklynx added an identification to an observation by katgrazer”

if we break down the Chinese (Traditional):

• “添加一個鑑定至” = “add(ed) an identification to”
• “由” = “by”
• “的” = (a possessive, like 's)
• “觀察” = “observe”, or “observation” in this context

so you don’t need “由” (“by”) because you’re already using the “的” possessive, and you don’t need the extra “a” because you don’t need an article when applying a possessive (just as “katgrazer’s an observation” would not make sense in English).

you have similar problems for (examples below in Simplified, just for variety):

• (your observation) “jimsinclair将鉴定添加至由您的a 观察”
• (a post) “paloma将评论添加至由loarie的a post (“A new kind of life list”)”
  (“post” above probably should be translated properly, too.)

@zinogre – thanks for identifying all these Chinese language issues. maybe once these are all fixed, it’ll make the system more accessible to a lot of Chinese speakers.

[robotpie]

@pisum I agree the “由” is a bit redundant