Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24957984-20140724011436/@comment-24957984-20140724204605

WaveDivisionMultiplexer wrote: I read the English version, and found a bunch of grammatical errors and awkward phrasing.

> restauration, population wakes up, tree is having, etc.

Maybe, since most of the wiki is going to read the translation rather than the original, you could get some help from someone who is more comfortable with the English language. Just so the translation does not come out awkward.

Here's the thing with translations: you think in your native language, and write in another. Then the structure of the sentences goes all wibbly wobbly timey wimey. For example: say your native language is hindi -I'm using this because it's another language I am more comfortable with. Turns out, if you translate a sentence as simple as My name is wave, from hindi to English, you're going to get my name wave is. Because that's how you frame sentences in the first language. Also, idioms that are not common to both languages come out funny. You could get somebody who knows both these languages to help you with the translation. Skip any unneeded idioms, or figures of speech. And if you can't find a suitable word to express yourself, think up a synonym and use a thesaurus. Just be sure you are familiar with your vocabulary, or else you'll be mr. Malaprop. I will definitely check other grammar/spelling mistakes. I have already asked help before for this user and he pretty much spotted most of the errors that are already fixed, and even though I added figures of speech on the original text, I didn't litterally translated them, instead I though of one from English that has the same meaning. And what do you mean with "Unneeded idioms"? Are you saying that writing with the language I want is useless?

Anyway, thank you for the feedback.