Terraforming Station

Dutch translation: Terravorming-station

10:32 May 12, 2012
English to Dutch translations [PRO]
Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino / Space boardgame
English term or phrase: Terraforming Station
Translating a manual for a space game there is an orbital facility, a Terraforming Station; capitals are not mine! I have translated this for now into Dutch as ´Terraform station´. However, this sounds very un-Dutch. I could use some suggestions on a more proper translation.

Bij het vertalen van een handleiding voor een ruimte bordspel is er sprake van een ´orbital facility´, een ´Terraforming Station´; hoofdletters zijn niet van mij! Ik heb het voorlopig vertaald in het Nederlands als 'Terraform station'. Echter, dit klinkt heel on-Nederlands. Ik kan wel suggesties op een meer passende vertaling gebruiken.
FreeHansje
Local time: 06:53
Dutch translation:Terravorming-station
Explanation:
Memory Alpha:

“Memory Alpha is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek.”
(http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main)


“Terraforming

Terraforming was the process of reshaping or otherwise modifying the ecology of a planet or moon to make it more habitable for life that depends on an environment much like Earth. As other cultures came into contact with Humans, they may have adopted the word into their language, or the universal translator may simply have translated their equivalent word into English. Hence, in its broadest sense, terraforming came to mean transforming the ecology of a planetary body such that those performing the procedure could live safely on the surface.”
(http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Terraforming)


Memory Alpha, De Nederlandstalige Star Trek wiki:

“Terravorming

Terravorming is het proces waarbij het ecosysteem van een planeet of maan wordt aangepast zodat het beter bewoonbaar is voor humanoïde levensvormen. De tegenhanger hiervan is biovorming, waarbij de fysiologie van een humanoïde wordt aangepast. Eén van de meest bekende terravorming projecten is Genesis. ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" • "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock")”
(http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Terravorming)


Voorbeeld:

“In de 24e eeuw waren op Venus meerdere Terravorming-stations om de planeet aan de humanoide levensomstandigheden aan te passen. (DS9:"Past Tense, Deel I") (http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Blue_Horizon)”.
(http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Venus)
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Roy vd Heijden
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Local time: 06:53
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3 +1Terravorming-station
Roy vd Heijden
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Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)


  

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terraforming station
Terravorming-station


Explanation:
Memory Alpha:

“Memory Alpha is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek.”
(http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main)


“Terraforming

Terraforming was the process of reshaping or otherwise modifying the ecology of a planet or moon to make it more habitable for life that depends on an environment much like Earth. As other cultures came into contact with Humans, they may have adopted the word into their language, or the universal translator may simply have translated their equivalent word into English. Hence, in its broadest sense, terraforming came to mean transforming the ecology of a planetary body such that those performing the procedure could live safely on the surface.”
(http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Terraforming)


Memory Alpha, De Nederlandstalige Star Trek wiki:

“Terravorming

Terravorming is het proces waarbij het ecosysteem van een planeet of maan wordt aangepast zodat het beter bewoonbaar is voor humanoïde levensvormen. De tegenhanger hiervan is biovorming, waarbij de fysiologie van een humanoïde wordt aangepast. Eén van de meest bekende terravorming projecten is Genesis. ("Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" • "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock")”
(http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Terravorming)


Voorbeeld:

“In de 24e eeuw waren op Venus meerdere Terravorming-stations om de planeet aan de humanoide levensomstandigheden aan te passen. (DS9:"Past Tense, Deel I") (http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Blue_Horizon)”.
(http://nl.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Venus)


Roy vd Heijden
Belgium
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Thank you all.

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agree  Jan Willem van Dormolen (X): Ik zou zelf geen streepje gebruiken (maar helemaal aan elkaar), maar het antwoord is zonder meer goed.
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terraforming station
terraformatiestation


Explanation:
Met 'terraformingstation' (wel aan elkaar graag) is niet zo veel mis, maar 'terraformatiestation' is nog net iets Nederlandser.

Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
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