In Memoriam: Özker Özgür

[Xenos 2Fan]

[Birkibrisli]

No problem,Tufan.If everyone agrees.
Ozker Ozgur tought me English briefly in high school in Cyprus.
Ironic that I might now translate his work into the language he tought me

[Xenos 2Fan]

[erolz]

I like the idea of this project. I also like the idea of efforts at tri lingual translations of some content.

I am still trying to get my head round how we might use the forum to organise these efforts or if there might be better approaches (like wiki maybe) than the forum sw, with the results being placed on the forum but the creation done via some other sw?

[moonskin]

[city]

That sounds very feasible to me.

[cypezokyli]

i dont know how many things are lost in the process from turlish to english and then greek (since i suppose only few of us Greek Cypriots, can actually speak turkish)

but i could also help

[moonskin]

G'day cypezokyli,

As a matter of fact, the project has already started within this very forum by the help of Erol who gave us room to do it, which I appreciate a lot. The project is at (1).

With the submission of another draft later this evening, there will be a total of 3 articles already translated into English which are not in final state but very much readable & understandable I guess.

You are the first Greek Cypriot to volunteer here and I am very happy about that. Thank you. I must say that so far nobody who speaks Turkish showed any interest to the project since it started. Of course, this is something very much up to the people but I am slightly disappointed. Well, it doesn't matter, I'll do as much as I can. Some people I personally know will contribute as well, so I'm not entirely alone. I think it is much better way of spending time than, say, watching TV or repeating at the forums the same old stories.

If you are willing to contribute, I should probably tell you first that some of these articles might have been already translated into Greek. Some of Özker Özgür's articles might have been published in the Greek Cypriot media. Perhaps somebody could check Politis archives for his articles. Their website is all in Greek, I could not check it myself.

If you are willing to contribute and you are sure that the Greek versions do not already exist, you could perhaps follow the following procedure:

1. To have an idea how the project works, check the sticky thread at (1).

2. Check the project page regularly and determine articles that the translation process is finalised for. It is explained in the instructions how you can determine this.

3. Once articles that are finalised appears in (1), pick one of your choice and, by following the the project guidelines, start a thread for translating the articles into Greek. Basically follow the same instructions except that everything in the original instructions that refer to the Turkish version of the articles should refer to the English version in your case. And similarly, everything that refers to the English version should refer to the Greek translation.

If it sounds complicated, please do not hesitate to ask me. There are no finalised articles yet, so it will take some time until you can start your part if you are still willing to do so.

I'll later add these instructions to the project forum (1) as well.

Thank you for your interest once more.

Cheers.

(1) http://www.talkcyprus.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=27

[cypezokyli]

moonskin

i guess i ve read some of his articles in politis. their search machine goes unfortunately only till last september. i ll try to send them an email.

(just noticed, we dont live that far away... bin gerage in tübingen )

have a nice day

[moonskin]

[city]

[moonskin]

[city]

[cypezokyli]

we could arrange a coffee shop that wasnt there in germany
how south are you at the time being city?

[city]