Re: Reg. danish translation

I've found in talking with most of the localisers that the word =20
"idle" is one of the most difficult words to translate.

Compare Spanish's ocioso (idle/lazy), desocupado (idle/unemployed), =20
and inactivo (idle/vegetative).  All of them have a negative sense, =20
whereareas in English being idle isn't necessarily bad.

Generally in this case, a native speaker can give the best advice =20
regarding connotation, and thus I would put in my vote for Andreas's =20
tilg=E6ngelig/inaktiv/v=E6k proposal.

Matthew Stuckwisch
Senior, Spanish and New Media
University of Alabama

On Apr 30, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Chris ?? wrote:

> On Apr 30, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Michael Zachariassen Krog wrote:
>
>> The best translation of the word 'idle' is 'v=E6k'(Away),
>> as danish does not seem to have a word equal to
>> 'idle'.
>>
>
> But isn't away a distinct state from idle?
>
> I don't speak Danish, but I know a little English. With the help of =20=

> http://danish.nigilist.ru/cgi-bin/nph-dict.cgi may we suggest that =20
> maybe "ubesk=E6ftiget" or "uvirksom" is the word we're looking for? =20=

> (I got those from translating "inactive" to Danish.)
>
> Jer
>
>
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