Minecraft Wiki talk:Projects/Spanish translation

Good luck
Good luck from France ! Oh and, btw, I copied a bit the style of your page, sorry. ^^ Octocat 22:59, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Good luck with your translations as well! Don't worry about the style, it's more of a general template, so no one has (or should claim) to own anything. :P --Miner Key 06:19, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Translations
Please don't recommend using online translators, even for reference. You need to recruit native speakers, or people otherwise fluent. Also, please advertise your project on the Spanish language forums. Thanks! -- Wynthyst  talk  23:33, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Alright, the guidelines have been altered accordingly, and I'll soon be posting on the .esp forums. Thanks for the suggestion, I never knew there was a Spanish Minecraft forum until now! --Miner Key 06:17, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Nombres / Names
Estaba pensando que algunos nombres están mal traducidos (¿por Google?). Por ejemplo, en lugar de "polainas" (leggings), se podría usar "perneras". En lugar de "mena" (ore), se podría usar "mineral de". Por cierto, técnicamente, el "hierro" (iron) de Minecraft es "acero". I just noticed that some names are poorly translated (by Google?). For example, instead of "polainas" (leggings), we could use "perneras". Instead of "mena" (ore), we could use "mineral de". By the way, the name "hierro" (iron) is technically "acero". Drzego 17:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Actually, that was my doing - while I did not use Google, I used my textbooks and a couple of dictionaries (apparently with the same result :P). The ores actually did used to be "mineral de", but I changed the names upon seeing mena in the Diamante article. I tend to take the usage of terms of fully fluent speakers over mine (5 - 6 years of study in school), but it turns out there are regional differences as well, especially when it comes to Castilian Spanish vs. other hispanic dialects. I will definitely bring this up on the forums, where a large amount of the contributor base originates from - feel free to join up and add your input. -- Miner Key 17:18, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello Miner Key, thanks for your response. I've been investigating a bit about that weird word, "mena". We here in Spain do not use it at all (some old men that used to work as miners still use it, though). That word refears to an amount of some concrete minerals, acero (iron) or oro (gold) are some of them, but diamante (diamond) is definetly NOT included in the meaning of what mena has been or is (maybe in the future... :P). I also wanted to comment that words: Drzego 18:39, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * "Pastel" (cake, should be "tarta", a pastel is less consistent than a tarta.)
 * "Guijarro" (Cobblestone, should be something as "empedrado", but it's not exactly a good word for it. Maybe we could leave it as Cobblestone?)
 * "Estante" (Bookshelf, that one should definetly be librería.)
 * "Mesa de trabajo" (The mighty workbench, should be "banco de trabajo", as it's not a table...)
 * "POLAINAS" (Polainas are more likely long boots, not leggings...)

"Estante" is fine for the bookshelf IMO. I'm not sure if me being Chilean has something to do with that (Chilean Spanish is very "informal", if that's the right word to describe it), but I'm sure Estante is the right word. "Libreria" is fine too though, and it also explicitly says it holds books (libros) :) The only word I could think of for the Leggings is Pantalones, but that means Pants. :/ Cobblestone could be simply changed to "Rocas" and Smooth Stone to "Piedra lisa". --Technoguyx 23:05, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Also, right now "The Nether" is translated to "El Infierno", literally meaning hell. After a quick Wikitionary search I found out Nether could be translated to "Subterraneo". Should it be changed to that? --Technoguyx 23:09, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello Technoguyx. I loved all the aportation you just did. "Rocas" is a wonderful word for Cobblestone, but Smooth Stone should remain as "Piedra".
 * For the word leggings, the best translation in this case (it's a piece of armour) is "musleras" or "perneras".
 * But, "estante" is not a good translation for bookshelf. As a "librería" only contains books (it's the case in Minecraft), a "estante" can contain other items such as small figueres, etc.
 * Drzego 06:29, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

What did really happen?
Hello there, I was translating this page when I found this: Busting iron ore would cause 1 - 3 iron blocks to drop. I understant what is written there, but not what it really means. When you blew up ore it popped out 1-3 Iron blocks? I'm not sure, that's why I won't touch it until I get my question answered. Thanks for your time! Drzego 17:44, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

The "would" is the past tense of "will", so it'd be something like "Destruir el mineral de hierro causaba que cayeran 1-3 bloques de hierro." --Technoguyx 20:11, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I understand what it means, but not what happened in that Minecraft version, we should find someone that knows it. I don't want to write that Iron blocks popped out from the ore directly if it's not true (I mean, Iron blocks are serious stuff). First contrast your information, then write! Drzego 21:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Good point, let's just ask in the forums I guess. --Technoguyx 21:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)