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Would you ever install an OS in any of your conlangs?

 
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Would you ever install an OS in any of your conlangs?
Yes, I would. I'm an enthusiast!
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I'm not crazy enough to do that.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:54 pm    Post subject: Would you ever install an OS in any of your conlangs? Reply with quote

Or do you think you'll only get lost and trash the OS just because you wouldn't remember what every single word meant?

Did you know that there are some Linux distributions (aka distros) that already include Esperanto as a native language for your system?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I very much would!! But it'd take so long to translate everything into my conlang!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Disregarding the effort, hell yeah!

Regarding the effort, I don't have the time or knowledge T_T
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know how to install an OS...

If I did, I might install one in Drumu, just for all the long words. That would get really frustrating after a while though, so I'd likely just go back to what was before.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would, I would actually try and put my conlang everywhere I could so that I could practice it. ^_^ LOL, but yeah, I think I'd kill the computer when I forget the words. Haha
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, of course! I've actually gone as far as making symlinks in my Linux installs so I can use the "údra" command instead of "mv" and the "ásíl" command instead of "cp". I've also regularly named folders with Alurhsa names. I'd love to do an actual translation of gnome or even just Firefox into Alurhsa, but frankly it has seemed like a LOT of work to begin, since I'd have to create the i18n files and build the package from scratch.

I have thought, once I discovered language packs for Vista, that it might be interesting to see if regular people are allowed to create those using some tool, or if only Microsoft is allowed to do that.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems that I'm the only one who's chicken... Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is what I found regarding translating an OS...

KDE (a GUI for GNU/Linux Distros)

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> Launchpad Help > Translations tells:
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Overview

Using Launchpad, you can translate free software projects and distribution packages into your own language. All you need are your Launchpad account and a web browser. There's no special software and in most cases you don't need to join a team to get started...

There are > Translations. I didn't find > constructed language/conlang but maybe soon ?

For the KDE there is > KDE Localization
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Welcome to the KDE Localization web site, the platform for KDE translators, doc writers, XML wizards, and everybody working on Internationalization [i18n], Localization [l10n], and documentation of KDE.

What you will find here are resources for practical translation and documentation work, such as:...

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thinking about it, I do remember ubuntu had an esperanto 'localization'. Must require massive amount of work.

I wish my conlang had the technical terms to translate.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wouldn't.

My con-speakers most certainly would.
Reptigan is meant to be spoken by a society that includes AIs as well as humans and alien intelligent lifeforms; clearly the AIs need to have OSs installed and obviously whoever (even if it's another AI) does it needs to communicate with the AI. So why not use common every-day speech?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I plan to design an infomorph that handles my conlang natively.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 28, 2010 4:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I remember I saw once a Bible translated in Klingon... so maybe some crazy guy already coded and compiled an i18n Klingon localization file for some Linux GUI hahaha.

Now I even know that making a program with Qt Designer for any Os with Qt or KDE GUI would already include commands for automatic text or strings labels translation based on your current language settings, so that would make the process as easy as... coding and compiling the language localization file hehehe.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I may sound newb, but what is an OS?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like Windows, Mac OS, all those various Linux distros...

Basically the method you use to interface with your computer.
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PostPosted: Sat May 01, 2010 1:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cordelier wrote:
I may sound newb, but what is an OS?
OS stands for "Operating System". It's the software layer closest to all your hardware devices; the CPU and each of the peripherals. Other software communicates with the OS rather than directly with the hardware, and thereby can "port" more easily from one configuration of hardware to another, as long as it can count on the same OS.

In mainframe days, the OS was the software program most used by the operators of the mainframe. "System programmers" were programmers whose user department was the IT or EDP department itself (other application programmers might service the sales department or the human resources department or whatever).
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