Project Translations in Hindi are a waste of money!

[amishmanish]

I am a native Hindi speaker and I completely agree to this.

Most of the so called "Hindi Translators" are in fact doing a word to word google translation. The translations make no sense to someone who will read it purely in Hindi, Like apporvlathey pointed out above. The message is lost as it cannot be conveyed simply by a dictionary translation of words.

I would have been happy to see some genuine translations that actually try to convey the meaning. This would have created a healthy body of translated works that could have been of some use later on. This is just not happening as no respect is shown to the content and no effort is made to suit it to the language.

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[avikz]

In my opinion, those that are interested in getting their projects translated to Hindi and aren't going to publish it on a leading Hindi newspaper like Dainikbhaskar, then their translations are pretty useless. Just go to the altcoin section in Indian subforum and see the number of views it gets.

I doubt any companies will be able to legally do that! Because the general conception about cryptos in India is not good and majority of the people thinks that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are illegal. So with that mindset, publishing in a leading news paper would not fetch any result to the business. However, there are people who understands the reality and they are mostly online.

The second challenge I see is that the series of chitfund scams in India. This incident further worsens the mindset of Indian people about any investment announcement from a new company. It is very easy to categorize an ICO with Chitfund because majority of the common mass don't know about it. Translating in Hindi can be proven fruitful if the people are educated about cryptos. Otherwise it's indeed a waste of money!

[illusioNiZt]

I agree many Indians use the mainstream English Whitepaper over the Hindi translated one but again its more of a formality to gain trust from more people and if a person is coming here with any plans of making any investments then he will definitely know what he is doing, But its still good for users who are more comfortable with Hindi imo.

[saraschoudhary]

And also, WTF this means ??

वीडियो और लेखों को अर्थपूर्ण और Yumerium से संबंधित होना चाहिए: टोकन बिक्री, श्वेतपत्र के पहलुओं आदि। (ये प्रासंगिक है या नहीं, Amazix / Yumerium के विवेकाधिकार पर रहता है)

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It means, Videos and articles should be meaningful and associated to Yumerium such as aspects of Token sale, Whitepaper etc. (The authenticity/validity of these articles/videos will be decided on the sole discretion of Amazix/Yumerium.

[legendster]

And also, WTF this means ??

वीडियो और लेखों को अर्थपूर्ण और Yumerium से संबंधित होना चाहिए: टोकन बिक्री, श्वेतपत्र के पहलुओं आदि। (ये प्रासंगिक है या नहीं, Amazix / Yumerium के विवेकाधिकार पर रहता है)

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It means, ...

I think you're missing the point kiddo. He implied that the whole sentence is marred with inconsistency and makes no sense. But I know none of this makes any sense to people like you ..

[webtricks]

I agree many Indians use the mainstream English Whitepaper over the Hindi translated one but again its more of a formality to gain trust from more people and if a person is coming here with any plans of making any investments then he will definitely know what he is doing, But its still good for users who are more comfortable with Hindi imo.

No doubt Hindi translation do help projects reaching new audience. Around 70% Indians can read Hindi and approx. 40% of them use Hindi as their first language. Social Media is live example of this, most of the Indians write in Hinglish on Social Media platforms. The crypto projects are technical ones and if one has quality Hindi translation detailing the whitepaper, it surely become easy to understand the project. So I don't agree with OP (legendster) that Hindi translation is complete waste. But there is surely a problem with Hindi Translation and that problem is use of 'Google Translate'. No matter how reputed the Hindi translator is, everyone uses Google Translate. Although I have seen some of the translators altering Google Translate's translation to readable one but still words are difficult to understand. No one on the forum writes all sentences from scratch so rather than making text easy, it makes text difficult to understand because Google Translate adds jargons in sentences.
I am still waiting for a translator who can actually devote time and write every words from his own keyboard. If this happens, Indian ANN section will become paradise!

[hemantlatawa]

I dont think this is waste of money. Still today so many website owner want his website in hindi or punjabi. Actually its depend upon what type of client they have. If they are selling some medicine / Oil or other stuff in rural area. They need website in hindi language.

[Saint-loup]

As you can see here localbitcoins volume is steadily growing in India.
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/INR
So you shouldn't think about the present, but about the future.
More information in indian languages will enhance mass adoption in my opinion.
Cryptos are not made for rich and smart people, but for everybody, including unbanked people

[RapTarX]

No doubt Hindi translation do help projects reaching new audience. Around 70% Indians can read Hindi and approx. 40% of them use Hindi as their first language.

But the activity here is too low. I didn't see more than 3 or 4 people are active, in altcoin section, almost no one is active there. I don't think a lot of people read whitepaper on Hindi. Everyone prefer the English, however, another fact is, Hindi translators are translating with the help of google which is awkward and no one will read that type of whitepaper.

[legendster]

As you can see here localbitcoins volume is steadily growing in India.
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/INR
So you shouldn't think about the present, but about the future.
More information in indian languages will enhance mass adoption in my opinion.
Cryptos are not made for rich and smart people, but for everybody, including unbanked people

Localbitcoins vol. has grown not because the avg Indian suddenly started liking crypto, its because they have no other way to buy/sell it here.

By the time the average Indian farmer understand what Bitcoin or any of the technology is, it'd far from feasible for such people to own it. You do not understand the Indian mentality if you think otherwise. You should stick to your french communities.

I've grown up in Indian villages, I know the mentality. If it's not backed by gov it's a scam! The avg. Indian doesn't even trust non-gov banks.

So all that talk about crypto is for everyone only sounds good ideologically. Practically it does not hold its ground.

[legendster]

Was not expecting this from you. Do you know what Geeta means? Or you just write here to write without any meaning? You have to say sorry for this or say that you don't know what Geeta means, here.

Sorry for what? I know what Geeta means. It is a name. And also a collection of fictional writing which tools like you "worship" and call it your religion. Geeta, and all the religion in the world can kiss my ass. So can you if you expect me to be or say sorry.