Hello there Bilingual Narrow Gauge Railfans,

Ever know what it is like to aline yourself with a small group of people with a very good idea to save railroad history and equipment and want to help them alot and want to scream out to the world the virtue of their work? Well I have joined and am helping the IFPPC, but I know a really important part of letting the world know about their work is to translate it into english language. I can but am too slow to do this right.

I am trying to work to extend my work contract here in Brazil so that I can help them longer from here but don't not have enough time to do the work that I know they need, which is to translate everything of their website and newsletters into english to help make their work transparent to the world wide web community.

So my request to those people out there that understand Portuguese and can write good english, could you help us finish translating all the website and newsletters (3x) to english? From my bad translation skills that there is 15hr of work to translate from machine translations into readable english of all current work. Then in the future about every 2-3 months there will be a new newsletter or bulletins to translate.

Please help, no stress, fica frio, tudo bem

Thor (windbergs@yahoo.com)


http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovia_Perus-Pirapora
http://www.geocities.com/perus_pirapora/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8343426393

http://efpp.fotopic.net/c1641807.html
http://www.perus.com/index.php?pagina=30
http://o-resgate.blogspot.com/2006/11/e ... apora.html
http://www.geocities.com/estrada_de_ferro/efpp.htm

Thor Windbergs
Campinas, SP

Both Google (http://translate.google.com) and Yahoo (http://babelfish.yahoo.com/) as well as others offer a web based translation service.

Neither is perfect, but you can use them to do the basic translations, then have an english speaker familiar with the railroad and its history to clean it up, a much quicker process.

An additional suggestion... consider adding an introduction for those of us not familiar with the area...

i would suggest you go to a college or university for help.

They will have both english speakers and some sort of computer department as well.

you will need both to do an English language web site for your preservation project.

Glad to hear that a preservation project is going on down your way.

So much has been lost to the scrap metal market just because there was no one to look after history of transportation in your country.

Ted Miles