[Mageia-discuss] Chinese translation for Mageia's page

[Mihai Dobrescu]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:37 PM, peter f miller <pfmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 23, 2010 8:14 AM, "Funda Wang" <fundawang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 在 2010年9月23日 下午11:06，Kira <elegant.pegasus at gmail.com> 写道：
> >> 在 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:02:18 +0800, Fred James <
> fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net>寫道:
> >> I had also tried to translate the text. In Chinese there's really no
> words
> >> match up with the meaning of fork in English. But, I think using the
> word
> >> branch in Chinese: "分支", would fit in the meaning in the text.
> > Exact translation for "branch", but it won't fit the meaning of fork.
>
> My dictionary gives "分叉" as the translation of fork, do you think this word
> is also not quite right?
>
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Don't you have a tool in agriculture that is used to handle the hay? It is
called "Pitchfork", look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitchfork. Could
it be an alternative? I think this is the origin to the verb "fork" somehow.
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