Spanish Translation of the FAQ

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Federico Caminiti wrote:

> I've finally gotten arround to create a spanish translation of the FAQ.

Thank you!  This message should probably be posted to the 
freebsd-translators list, though.  Other translators have probably 
experienced the same problems.  Or will.

I think some translation teams have lists of translations for common 
words and phrases.

> There are two things I'd like to point out, though.
>
> 1) A few terms/phrases were not so easy to translate me. When in doubt, I
> tried to remain consistent with my previous translations of the Leap
> Seconds and NanoBSD articles. This is a list of the translations that were
> a bit of a problem and what I translated them to.
>
> - source tree -> arbol de codigo fuente
> - release engineering -> ingenieria de lanzamientos
> - testers -> testers
> - bleeding-edge -> bleeding-edge
> - handbook -> manual
> - strings attached -> restricciones
> - bug / bug fix -> error / corrección de errores
> - production quality -> calidad de producción
> - tunable -> variable
> - resource locks -> primitivas de sincronización
> - mirror  (left untranslated)
> - unstripped kernel  (left untranslated)
>
> 2) Some phrases feature wordplays that are impossible to translate into
> spanish. I translated them anyway, but the result can be confusing IMHO.
> Examples are:
>
> - How cool is FreeBSD? -> Translated as "¿Que tan frío es FreeBSD?" (In
> spanish we don't have a distinction between cool as in "not warm" and cool
> as in "awesome").
>
> - Why is it called FreeBSD? -> I believe this can create confussion because
> we have two separate terms. Free as in "free beer" translates to "gratis"
> and free as in "free speech" translates to "libre".
>
> I don't know if it is possible to add a small note to the translation to
> clarify the wordplay, but I think it would help matters.
>
> The current translation diff can be seen at:
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5153 .
>
> Thanks!
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