Catfish Atlas 2

Daragh · Post by **Daragh** » 04 Jul 2007, 20:35

Does anyone know when the second volume of this excellent book will be available in English.

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 04 Jul 2007, 21:25

I've checked their site for you but so far there's no announcement of an English translation.
Here's their site in case you want to see for yourself:
http://www.mergus.de

Daragh · Post by **Daragh** » 05 Jul 2007, 00:13

Thanks for the link, I emailed them in English to ask, hopefully they have a date ... soon.

Daragh

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 05 Jul 2007, 10:33

wich is a smart thing to do, but don't hold your breath.....

part 2 passed the initial deadline with over 3 years (!) and they're also not that fast -if ever- with answering emails and such.
Mergus makes great books, mind, but they're not the fastest working people on the planet.

and the not or extremely late answering of mails is something that seems to bug many many German firms, LFS, wholesalers and bookprinters.
no clue why that is, but I've run headlong into this one a few times myself.

I think they just don't like email very much for some reason. a phonecall works like a charm however. maybe they're firm believers of a more 'direct contact', cause once on the phone they're very very well-mannered and things get rolling pretty quick.
but they don't like to use mail for some obscure reason that eludes me.

Daragh · Post by **Daragh** » 05 Jul 2007, 12:05

Hi sidguppy. I got a reply this morning, it was short, but at least they replied:

"Hello, the translator is working on it.
Mid-end next year should be realistic.
regards Mergus"

The bad news is the translator is no flash Gordon, the end of next year. Argh. I would have translated it myself by then. Ah well just have to wait, I suppose.

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 05 Jul 2007, 12:42

The bad news is the translator is no flash Gordon, the end of next year. Argh. I would have translated it myself by then. Ah well just have to wait, I suppose.

You could learn German by then......

It is worth buying it in German though, as you can still get a fair amount of information from it.

The photos are also excellent.

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 06 Jul 2007, 14:39

I'll agree with Racoll on that. Do you have volume 1? Volume 2 is set up the same way. There are also some good free websites that translate phrases from German to English. They can deal with scientific jargon and current lingo. A good German to English scientific dictionary doesn't hurt, either. When all else fails, the pictures work wonders for me. More than a year later and I'm still going through it.
Amanda

Bas Pels · Post by **Bas Pels** » 11 Jul 2007, 20:35

bronzefry wrote:There are also some good free websites that translate phrases from German to English.

I tried a few teksts from Spanish to English, but they all translate Rio Negro into black river, and make a lot of other funny errors. Once I tried English to Dutch. It's good I read it in English before, because I would not have understood it.

The tekst were all related to fish keeping, I'm sure other, more common teksts would not be messed up that badly

Firochromis · Post by **Firochromis** » 31 Jul 2007, 08:44

Hi, yesterday I post them an e-mail and they replied today. Here they are:

My mail:

> Hi, When will be the Catfish Atlas 2, Aquarium Atlas 5
> & 6 will be translated to English, if ever?
>
>
> Regards
> ----
>
> Halo, Wann wird Wels Atlas 2 und Aquarien Atlas 5 & 6
> in Englisch übersetzt?
>
> Danke sehr
>
> Firat Cingi
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Reply:

Hello: Catfish 2 end this year, available end 2008,
Atlas 5, maybe in 3 years, Vol. 6 never?
regards Mergus
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I understand that, although the translation will complete at the end of this year, it will be available at the end of next year.