Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: SLY PAPA NA KEVIN on January 28, 2015, 09:36
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Hello guys
Am back after a 3 week break away in Africa. I have noticed an increase in posts that are not in English, i have made several appeals that we desist from posting without a brief translation so i say it again, if you have no time to translate then don't post it or it will be removed, even saying ''translation later'' will not help because there are several posts i have seen with ''translation later'' but no translation has been done weeks and months on.
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Thanks Sly, I second that.
It will help build a more inclusive Forum.
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If I'm wrong tell me but eveytime I put "translation later" I always put atleast some type of summary whether that be in a couple of hours or the next day.
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Yes, you sometimes do Jdog,usually a line or two. Please note that you're not the only one, I have noticed 2 others who keep doing it that's why I am not mentioning names.
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I concur DJ SLY. We really need translations or at least a summary.
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Yes, you sometimes do Jdog,usually a line or two. Please note that you're not the only one, I have noticed 2 others who keep doing it that's why I am not mentioning names.
The others don't even put a summary up, they just post the video.
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if you have no time to translate then don't post it or it will be removed
chill...you sound like a dictator
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if you have no time to translate then don't post it or it will be removed
chill...you sound like a dictator
Yeah, I don't give a shit what you think, I need sanity on the forum, if I wanted I would have made it a lingala forum but no, it's English for a reason.
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guys please calm down i think the person who posted the most without translation recently(not saying this in a bad way) is our brother romeo who i think does not understand lingala well and even puts the topic titles exactly like video title
i think us lingala speakers need to help him out for translation when we can and its fine,lets not make too big a deal of it...
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if you have no time to translate then don't post it or it will be removed
chill...you sound like a dictator
Yeah, I don't give a shit what you think, I need sanity on the forum, if I wanted I would have made it a lingala forum but no, it's English for a reason.
Dude why you getting emotional over posts....chill it's not that serious love
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Dude why you getting emotional over posts....chill it's not that serious love
You're literally calling me a dictator and you expect me to applaud, what planet are you on?
Mine was a friendly reminder for everyone to make an effort to give a summary of what is being said if a post or video is in lingala. The forum has been littered with too many threads in french and lingala yet there's a only a few of us here who understand lingala and only a handful understand french. People always complain to me in private messages and on the board so as admin of the forumi had to give another friendly warning, you simply picked one line from my statement and compared me to a dictator which was disrespectful.
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DJ SLY...you know you ain't no dictator and Thank you for advocating for us we really really Appreciate you.
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Again archos said it all , but the message is passed .
When i came in this forum i want to share music video , interview etc but yeah i'm limited in my ability to do a summary or translation. So if people are not happy , i will not post video in lingala and other languages i don't understand.
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Again archos said it all , but the message is passed .
When i came in this forum i want to share music video , interview etc but yeah i'm limited in my ability to do a summary or translation. So if people are not happy , i will not post video in lingala and other languages i don't understand.
or if you want to can pm videos you want to post so i will try a little summary going with the video
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Again archos said it all , but the message is passed .
When i came in this forum i want to share music video , interview etc but yeah i'm limited in my ability to do a summary or translation. So if people are not happy , i will not post video in lingala and other languages i don't understand.
or if you want to can pm videos you want to post so i will try a little summary going with the video
Thanks Archos.
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SLY : Say i have a video, i dont understand it and i need it translated What do i do?
Say i need to share a video which has not been shared by other forum members but can do translation, what do i do?
Archos & Sly : What do you do to help the none Lingala Speakers, i stopped posting a after seeing my posts not translated. The only posts i do is those with music in them or the Zamba Zamba which i know there must be a part os singing of Zamba's show.
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prince just kindly ask for translation,and also bear in mind that sometimes there are several topics the same day so older topics now become topics of page 2 and so on,so sometimes you can easily forget
in those cases dont mind sending sly or myself a reminder in pm
By the way in a couple of hours today i'll make you happy with something hopefully
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By the way in a couple of hours today i'll make you happy with something hopefully
hehehe still on standby.
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It's not a problem having one or two posts but there must be a note saying you need translation, don't just post something with the title in french or lingala,at least translate the title of the video, for french google translator can do the title to English.
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Guys, indeed, please stick to posts in English, and provide a brief English summary at least if the original content is in another language. This forum intends to represent Congolese music in English, if there are too many posts in other languages, that lowers the revelancy of the content and the site becomes more and more discredited. Just imagine if someone is visiting this site because he expects content about Congolese music in English, and he finds not every topic is in that language, he might get fed up with needing to search for English posts a lot, and then decide look for info elsewhere. That won't do good for us or the mission of this site. That's why it is important to stick to English, and provide at least an English summary for foreign videos. Cheers!