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French crew jobs
posted by michael47STAFFMOD on May 11, 2018 at 9:11 AM
Hi Travis I try now to add some "french named" crew jobs, but I found nothing with my profile (with [FR] in the top of the screen). English job names works fine. Michael
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on May 11, 2018 at 9:25 AM
maybe they aren't translated.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 11, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Hi @michael47,
I had to stop using translated names for jobs because of a general lack of structure and quality control for translated data. I don't have a solution for this problem just yet and will be looking more at this in the future.
Reply by michael47
on May 11, 2018 at 12:16 PM
Bad news, but I understand it.
Reply by Marr 🇳🇱
on May 11, 2018 at 12:22 PM
Good news, as these literal translations make me scratch me itch big time. It's not like you get points for making translations or anything SO WHY DO IT SO BAD AND LITERAL IF ITS NOT EVEN USED IN THE INDUSTRY
"Thanks" could at least have been translated as "Met dank aan" instead of "Bedankt".... idiot, did you EVER watch the credits of a Dutch movie?!
/end of rant
Maybe a possible (probably totally unrealistic) solution would be to create jobs in multiple languages, and then, (upon verification) they could be mapped between translations, like alternative names for the jobs. For example Regisseur (NL) and Director (EN) would be tied together, but when adding in NL, it would still be popped up when searching for Director, because sometimes "we" just use the international crew names, yaknow.