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Reply #1 - 2008 May 17, 10:42 pm
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

Hello, I'm posting a suggestion for the site. It would be great if we could rename our keywords as we like, individually.

I say that because I have a lot of trouble sometimes going english -> portuguese -> kanji or portuguese -> english -> kanji or sometimes even english -> portuguese -> english -> kanji.

If I could post some notation in my story to set the keyword to portuguese (at my own risk) it would help me a LOT.

Last edited by mentat_kgs (2008 May 17, 10:42 pm)

Reply #2 - 2008 May 17, 10:54 pm
Jarvik7 Member
From: 名古屋 Registered: 2007-03-05 Posts: 3946

Use the greasemonkey script. Search the forums for "keyword substitution" for the link.

Reply #3 - 2008 May 17, 10:59 pm
Jonathan Member
From: Brazil Registered: 2008-02-19 Posts: 30

mentat_kgs: Although I have nothing against your suggestion, I will also give you one: don't translate the keywords. Even though you are a native Portuguese speaker, if you know English, there's no reason to translate anything. My English teacher always says this and it's true: translation is only good for beginners. If you are an intermediate or advanced level student, you should study the target language by using the target language (e.g. English-English).
I assume you are both, an English and a Japanese student (like myself). If you try to translate the keywords into Portuguese, you won't be helping either of those target languages. I'm almost finishing RTK1 now and I've done it entirely in English. I had to look up a few words, obviously (decameron wink). But from what I read here, even some natives looked those up, so there's no reason to worry about it. In the end, you will have developed your English with the addition of some new vocabulary and learned 2042 kanji.
Just a suggestion though, so take what you want from it.

Last edited by Jonathan (2008 May 17, 11:01 pm)

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Reply #4 - 2008 May 23, 3:48 pm
mentat_kgs Member
From: Brasil Registered: 2008-04-18 Posts: 1671 Website

Yo Jonathan. I'll stick with what you said.

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