Diskussion:Århundradets 100 böcker enligt Le Monde

message: I have used the resources available to me in Swedish Wikipedia to translate this intelligent French book list from English into Swedish.
In cases where I could not find a Swedish title, I have tried to use Norwegian or Danish, to make it clearer to Swedish readers which book is intended.
I assume that many of these books have official titles in Swedish, but either they are not currently in Wikipedia, or I was not able to find them.
Varlaam 11 februari 2011 kl. 05.11 (CET) (Toronto, Canada)
replies: text: If you couldn't find a Swedish title, please use the original title. This is Swedish Wikipedia after all, not Norwegian och Danish. It's much easier to find a Swedish title with the original one, and not with another translated title. /Grillo 11 februari 2011 kl. 06.49 (CET)
replies: text: :Well, you are the guy who just deleted the page's only <ref>, and deleted the page introduction, instead of simply translating it into Swedish.

text: :So, I am sorry if I have questions about your judgement.

text: :In other languages, someone just makes corrections to the page.

text: :No one else has ever complained that an English-speaking Canadian just translated a page into his language.

text: :Ever. You are the first.

text: :Sorry for offending you with my hours of work.

text: :Varlaam 11 februari 2011 kl. 20.41 (CET)

text: :I once saw my Danish friend and my Swedish friend talking.

text: :The Dane was speaking Danish to the Swede, and the Swede was speaking Swedish to the Dane.

text: :So don't give me a lot of nonsense about how difficult it is for you to deal with a title in Danish.

text: :Varlaam 11 februari 2011 kl. 20.47 (CET)
replies: text: ::I do not see any complaint, only a suggestion of how to make it easier for us who actually speaks this odd lingo to find the correct title. Surely that cannot be much of a problem? And yes, it can be a problem for us to deal with a different nordic title - that is how different the languages actually are. Riggwelter 11 februari 2011 kl. 20.48 (CET)

text: :You guys are talking about theory.

text: :I have translated this page into Swedish, Bokmal, Nynorsk, and Danish.

text: :So I know how close the book titles are because I did the work, okay?

text: :Jesus, when I was in Sweden, I didn't have any problems with Swedes.

text: :So stop creating a problem where there isn't one.

text: :A Swedish teenager who only speaks Swedish has a chance to understand a Danish title right away, when he cannot understand an Italian title at all. Right?

text: :Am I the only one here who gives a shit about Swedish young people?

text: :Varlaam 11 februari 2011 kl. 21.10 (CET)

text: :If you want the original title, then you go to my English page, or my German page, or my Spanish page, or my Italian page -- since I wrote all of those -- and see what Book #25 is called in the original language.

text: :So please stop talking to me, and start translating the book titles into Swedish.

text: :Cheers, Varlaam 11 februari 2011 kl. 21.19 (CET) (in Toronto)

text: :I wanted to visit Selma Lagerlof's house when I was in Sweden, but I didn't have time.
replies: text: ::It's much easier to find a Swedish title if you can search for the original title. It's much more likely to find the original title together with a Swedish title in a Swedish database, than to find the Danish and Swedish titles together. This has nothing to do with how easy the languages are to understand for the native speakers of each language. Also, it's common convention to write in the correct language on the different language versions. I wouldn't rant angrily if someone deleted Swedish text I had entered on English Wikipedia. I can understand that the list could have taken hours of work. So what, it's still there. The text is just copy and paste and could not have taken more than seconds... /Grillo 13 februari 2011 kl. 08.05 (CET)
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