CĂșpla Focail Eile
Desperately needed a study break and did a little bit of work on the Irish Translation of Gnome. Truth be told I am unlikely to ever want to use a computer in Irish but it is an intersting problem to solve.
I am trying to make a habit of spending a few minutes on it, and get a little bit done every once in a while.
One amusing mistranslations was Colour Bicycle instead of Colour Wheel which is a circular shaped colour picker. It is an easy enough mistake to make, the Irish word rothar is to roth, as the word bicycle is to cycle (rotation).
I love that the word used for Hint is nod, although fios (inform) or leid (clue) might be techincally be better choices.
For those who don't speak Irish (Gaeilge, not Hiberno-English) the above title means couple of words more (more or less). For those of you who do not speak computer-geek Gnome is a Desktop enviroment for your computer, a free alternative to the likes of Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows. ;)