Re: Translation errors in German documentation

[Marc Hohl]

David Kastrup schrieb:
> [...]
> > diff --git a/Documentation/de/notation/fretted-strings.itely 
> > b/Documentation/de/notation/fretted-strings.itely
> > index ecbf682..b181026 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/de/notation/fretted-strings.itely
> > +++ b/Documentation/de/notation/fretted-strings.itely
> > @@ -19,27 +19,27 @@
> >  @lilypondfile[quote]{fretted-headword.ly}
> >  
> >  Dieser Abschnitt erklärt bestimmte Eigenheiten der Notation für
> > -gebundene Saiteninstrumente.
> > +bundierte Saiteninstrumente.
> >     
>
> And so on.  Sorry, I have to disagree here: this is an anglicism because
> there is really no generally acceptable literal translation of
> "fretted".
>
> In general use is "Saiteninstrumente mit Bünden" (possibly more correct,
> but not customary would be "mit Bunden").
>
> The term "gebundene Saiteninstrumente" (tied string instruments) is
> actually accurate since frets came into being as pieces of string
> knotted around an instrument's neck.  I don't know if this term is in
> actual use.  If at all, likely by lutenists or gambists.
>   
Uff.
> My recommendation would be to plaster the index with all possibilities,
> but to use in the translation just "Bundinstrumente" (which is a rather
> common term), or alternatively "Saiteninstrumente mit Bünden".
> "bundiert" is, at best, a pseudo-academic substitution for "fretted".
>   
I am not sure about the correct form to use here, but if I go to a 
guitar (or bass)
manufacturer to order an electic bass guitar, he will ask whether I want to
have the fretboard fretted ("bundiert") or fretless - the same goes for 
orders
concerning instrument parts, where you can buy necks/fretboards for guitars
and basses (you can buy them without frets and do the fret job for yourself,
this would be called "bundieren", or you have to change the fret wire, 
because
it is worn out: "Neubundierung") - the term "bundiert" is (at least in 
the guitar
world) very common.

Oh, and wikipedia uses "bundiert" even vor Dulcimers, see

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bund_(Saiteninstrument)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulcimer

so while it may not be totally correct, it seems to be a commonly used 
technical term,
therefore I used it in the translation. I can have a closer look to some 
examples in
the literature about stringed instruments when I am at work today.

Marc