Errors in Dutch Translation about translations HOT 6 CLOSED

He is right. But I think the way the software constructs these sentences prohibits it.

Cheers

"J. T. L." [email protected] schreef op 28 april 2015 20:02:36 CEST:

We received the following comments from a developer using the API:

The following two sentences have minor grammatical problems:

1. Lichte regen vandaag tot op zondag met temperaturen stijgend tot
   19°C op zondag
2. Lichte regen morgen tot van maandag met temperaturen stijgend tot
   16°C op maandag.

Literally translated is:

1. Light rain today till up Sunday with temperatures increasing to
   19°C on Sunday.
2. Light rain tomorrow till from Monday with temperatures increasing
   to 16°C on Monday.

A better sentence would be:

1. Lichte regen vandaag t/m zondag met temperaturen stijgend tot
   19°C op zondag
2. Lichte regen morgen tot maandag met temperaturen stijgend tot
   16°C op maandag.

I believe the existing translation is from @basvdijk and @realjax...
any thoughts on this?

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I agree with the proposed translation to be a better one.

On 28 apr. 2015, at 20:02, J. T. L. [email protected] wrote:

We received the following comments from a developer using the API:

The following two sentences have minor grammatical problems:

Lichte regen vandaag tot op zondag met temperaturen stijgend tot 19°C op zondag
Lichte regen morgen tot van maandag met temperaturen stijgend tot 16°C op maandag.
Literally translated is:

Light rain today till up Sunday with temperatures increasing to 19°C on Sunday.
Light rain tomorrow till from Monday with temperatures increasing to 16°C on Monday.
A better sentence would be:

Lichte regen vandaag t/m zondag met temperaturen stijgend tot 19°C op zondag
Lichte regen morgen tot maandag met temperaturen stijgend tot 16°C op maandag.
I believe the existing translation is from @basvdijk and @realjax... any thoughts on this?

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Thanks.

@realjax - Could you be more specific? Perhaps I can work out a way around the issue.

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Again, I'm not sure, but take for instance this part
..tot van maandag..

The 'van maandag' part is also used in the a sentence like:

'From monday until sunday' (Van maandag tot zondag) . If we leave out the word 'van' as the developer rightfully suggested, his example would be correct but this one would be incorrect as it no longer has a translation for the word 'from'

It's a consequence of the fact that sentences in English are not constructed the same way as Dutch ones are. I tried to level those problems out as much as possible for the original Dutch translation but couldn't completely prevent the awkward sentence every now and then.

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Well, what I mean is, what is it in the module that prevents fixing this? There is a mechanism which can be used to inspect the context in which a phrase is used so as to be able to determine how to structure that phrase. Would this be sufficient to work around the issue in this case?

(Example: https://github.com/darkskyapp/forecast-io-translations/blob/master/lib/lang/de.js#L100-L109 )

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Could be, I'll look into the code when I have time to see if this would work!

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