Red White and Bluepaper

Hey guys! A few days ago I approached @testz to ask if they could make the Steem Bluepaper available for translation to Dutch, and yesterday I got their reply that I could start! Yay!

Quoting @bookchain here,

Some time ago Steem Team announced Bluepaper project! In order to help more peoples to understand basic principles and innovations which comes with Steem we started Steem Bluepaper translation project. Now when we have Utopian we deside to publish this as a task request to get more attention from Utopians.

So I took the first stap for Dutch in that! And what a step it was: from 0 to 100%, no less than 2927 words! And what I found to be really interesting was the way the translation worked, not string by string as you might see in other projects, but like such:

What basically happens is that on the left you don't see a list of strings, as you usually might, but the actual paper as a whole which gets updated with your translations in real-time! Highlighted in green is the part I already translated, yellow is what's currently on the translation screen, and red is what still has to be done. (That's all green now though ;) )

I talked in my earlier translations about some difficulties that you might encounter when translating from English to Dutch, so here's another one: some terms keep their (English) ''name'', either because it's the same in Dutch or because they simply don't have a Dutch word!

Examples of this would be "Steem" (and it's variations and applications) since it's a name, but also words like "fork" or "blockchain", which unsurprisingly were used a lot! So there's another mini class in Translating to Dutch by yours faithfully!
See you next time!

Check my translation activity for this project, or all my translations.
See the project on Github and on Crowdin.

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