how long would it take to make a spanish / español version of the site? (hispanic / latinamerican, whatever)

I would say Spanish, too. Spanish-speaking people cover a pretty large part of the globe. That's a big target audience. It would probably have to be a Castillian based translator so the most people could at least understand it. Most Latin American and Carribean countries have different kinds of Spanish, kind of the same way English gets mixed up town-to-town.

My husband's family says they speak "Spanglish", but you probably can't find a translator for that. :P

I would also suggest perhaps Klingon and Mimbari? :twisted: j/k

Pet;D

It takes AGES! But I use language packs so I can have something up and running in a few days.

Yep! It's looking like a hot favourite!

It'd really be cool to see sadgeezer.com in either Afrikaans or Zulu, but I just don't see it happening.

Cool Idea though.

:P

I'm pretty sure there isn't a Zulu language pack, but I'll check for an Afrikaans.

To be honest though, I really only want to concentrate on the top two or three (I have to search for language packs for all the installed modules individually and it can be time consuming).

Russian and Spanish are great. For the third I'd argue French or German. I personally lean more towards French as thats more of an "international" language than German.

Maybe we could Poll for the final language?

Sadgeezer : I was only kidding about the Zulu and Afrikaans. It would be an absolute waste. Don't even think about it. Besides, as the only person here fluent in either Zulu or Afrikaans, I'm perfectly capable of reading and speaking in English.

:idea: I would agree with LexxLurker and think French or German would be good. Portuguese would probably be the next most read language after English and Spanish. Methinks.

Kuyababazeka! Uyafuna ukuphuma namhla ebusuku? :twisted:

(That is the extent of my fluency, :lol: and it it likely spelled wrong.... So in that case many apologies. It happens someone sent me an email full of "Would you go out with me tonight? Cool!" in 20 languages. The miraculous thing is I not only kept it, but remembered where it was. :shock: )

Pet;D

oh, german would be nice too..... :)

gela

Agreed

I went to college in New Mexico for two years, I happen to be quite proficent in spanglish. :P

That actually sounds like a perfect idea for the site. While no one actually speaks those languages, it would fit in beautifully for the scifi motif of the site. I'd be willing to spend the time and effort to look for Klingon, Elven (Tolkien), or Chaksoba (Fremen of Dune).

Demographically we have more people from Germany then France, so I'd have to choose German. But we have more from Sweden then Germany so... :?

Can I give you a hand with that?

Ya, without a doubt. I havent seen the demographics, was going purely generically. That's why I thought a poll may be in order, but if we got the figures we can easily go off that. " The Needs of the many outweigh....well you get the point :twisted: "

Swedes speak German, they call it Swiss, but it's pretty much German. So German may be the way to go.

Wow Pet... what a laugh!

Lets see....

Kuyababazeka - (Im not sure what that means)

Uyafuna - Do you want to

ukuphuma - to go out

namhla - today

ebusuku - tonight

Im really impressed, Pet. :D

I'd love to see a redneck language pack!!

Ok then, I'll be looking to install Russian, Spanish, French, Portugese and German languages.

Thanks for the offer of help Headge, but it's fiddly and best done by one person.

Very cool! Briefly tried it en francais. :D

There's still a long way to go yet.

The languages block will nly be viewable while I'm working on the languages installation. Sorry for the disruption.