# 🇨🇳 Strange translation in Chinese Simplified Chinese localization of discourse

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**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-translation-in-chinese-simplified-discourse/198239 "2021-07-26T19:37:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 26, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/strange-translation-in-chinese-simplified-discourse/198239/1 "2021-07-26T19:37:24Z")

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I noticed a lot translation have been changed for Chinese Simplified during recently discourse updates.

Not sure if it’s a result of the mentioned agency.

> [@Translation and proofreading disabled for some languages](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-and-proofreading-disabled-for-some-languages/193901):
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> Our translation agency is working on core and plugins again. We’ve disabled translations for the following languages while that’s in progress. Arabic Chinese Simplified Dutch Finnish French German Italian Japanese Portuguese (Brazilian) Russian Spanish Turkish We are doing this in order to increase the quality and consistency of translations. FAQ Will you re-enable crowdsourcing for all languages? Yes, we will re-enable translation for all languages after the translation agency finishes thei…

Those updated translation are not very wrong, but genereally we use specical set of words to describe behaviors in a forum.

For example, for `js.topic.suggest_create_topic`, the translation used to be like “ready to start a new topic?” and after the update, it’s more like “ready to start a new conversation/chat”.

And, the word `category`, used to be much like the word itself in English, now became a more formal word like “classification”.

I feel the change is very strange and should not be applied, also doubt if the agency is aware of the translations are going to be applied on a forum.

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