English Mistranslation

Epicsleeper · March 10, 2022, 9:17pm

I don’t exactly know where to put this, but I found an English mistranslation.
This (Report improper/bad translation here (other than English) · Issue #969 · 4ian/GDevelop · GitHub) doesn’t seem to be the right place.

“Sounds and musics”

Bubble · March 10, 2022, 10:06pm

Yes, I noticed the same thing and was going to make a list. To be clear, it should be Sounds and music. Music never has an s on the end. The word musics appears in a few places.

Also this from BBText:

Bouh · March 11, 2022, 12:16pm

Hi
What is the typo on your screenshot?

Bouh · March 11, 2022, 12:16pm

I fixed it, thank you!

Epicsleeper · March 11, 2022, 12:26pm

It’s indeed what Bubble said. “Musics” is not a real word Thank you for fixing it! When we come across english mistranslations is there a better place to post/talk about it?

Bouh · March 11, 2022, 12:28pm

Link in your first post is perfect

github.com/4ian/GDevelop

Report improper/bad translation here (other than English)

opened 08:30PM - 11 Mar 19 UTC

4ian

Translations are done by the community. If while using GDevelop in your language… (other than English), you come across some badly translated sentences, you can: ## There is something specific that is not translated properly 1. Go to the crowdin project: https://crowdin.com/project/gdevelop - create an account if needed it's fast and you'll be able to contribute! * Choose your language. * Click on "GDevelop 5 (editor) messages to be translated" if the mistake is in the editor interface (but not related to events, objects or behaviors). * Or click on "GDevelop (Core and extensions) messages to be translated" if the mistake is in the events, related to an object or a behavior. * Search, on the top left, by entering the sentence with a mistake: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1280130/54155513-2fab6900-443c-11e9-8434-49a141f67357.png) * Finally, *suggest a better* translation in the middle or *add a comment* on the right. 2. Or you can report it here, including **a screenshot showing the error/mistake/typo**. But it's way way faster and better to report it on Crowdin. *Thanks a lot for helping GDevelop!* ## Oh my god, lots of sentences are badly translated Post a message here with 5/6 different sentences that are badly translated. It's surely because of a translator that did bad translations. I'll go on Crowdin and remove all the translations from this person if it turns out that everything is badly translated. ## Are you an expert/native speaker in a language and really good at English too? Reach out to me (find my contact on my GitHub profile) so that I can set you as a proof reader. You'll be able to pick the right translations. --- > Don't reply on this issue for other things than mistakes in translation, to keep the subject tidy :) I'll remove any message not related to translations. But you can use emojis to react on GitHub ;) Thanks!

Bouh · March 11, 2022, 12:29pm

Music isn’t a real word?
What would you replace it with?

Epicsleeper · March 11, 2022, 12:31pm

Thank you I steered away from there because it says : (other than english).

I would take away the s at the end of musics.

Bouh · March 11, 2022, 12:33pm

Indeed by bad! For the english it’s the second link pinned on top of this page:

Epicsleeper · March 11, 2022, 12:35pm

Thank you I will make a note of that

Bubble · March 12, 2022, 5:27am

Add a new object: Light

Bubble · March 12, 2022, 9:38pm

(If you really would prefer this type of stuff be on github, please say and I’ll join it.)

I was wondering about the English naming of the physics joint Prismatic.

Here is a prism and here are some pneumatic cylinders. Was the joint meant to be called Pneumatic? If so, then translations from English into other languages might also have the same prism related name.

Prism

Pneumatic cylinders

Silver-Streak · March 12, 2022, 9:46pm

This one is a harder one. A prismatic joint is a real thing in physics related calculations, and in relation to the physics engine as well.

It should probably keep the technical terminology that is used elsewhere. So it should either be kept as “Prismatic Joint” or maybe “Slider joint” which is an alternative term I’ve seen used in some engines, but prismatic should be kept somewhere in the descriptions as it is the technical term for it.

Bubble · March 12, 2022, 9:55pm

Yes, Slider joint would be a more meaningful name. Pneumatic wouldn’t be suitable anyway, I just wasn’t aware that actual thing was really called Prismatic and thought long P words ending in matic had got switched. My mistake, thanks for the info.