Thread:Extension talk:Babel/Võro/reply (8)

Sorry it has been so long, I did not receive a notice that there had been a reply. When Seb_az86556 and I came to nv.wikipedia, there was already a lot of bad language, nonsense translations, and even a bunch of very offensive obscenities appearing as common headings, and we were trying to clear these out quickly because they were causing problems among Navajo readership. Localization was going to be a long, arduous task to translate all of the material into Navajo, and we wanted to get rid of the nonsense and offensive terms immediately by resetting them to English. We gave it our best shot but we could not work with Siebrand. Seb will have nothing further to do with it after the way he was treated. I know a number of Navajo speakers who would be able to translate, but to date nobody I know is willing to subject himself to the whims of Siebrand or others like him, so I don't think it is possible that any Native American translator will ever do work there. Instead, we used some slick hacks to cover up and hide the obscenities, and everything we have done has been done locally. If anyone replies to this, remember that I will not be notified and probably will not see the reply.