This exists in differences between UK English and , what they call you speak 'American', which is to say there is a difference.
Scott On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:21 PM scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > I had to learn French just work and do everyday functions in Switzerland, > canton de Vaud. > But the company I worked for realized this an proved free French lessons > which helped a > Great deal. > > Scott > > > On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 11:00 AM David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> > wrote: > >> > I once had a customer say "PLEASE DON'T translate your manuals. We are >> used to technical materials in English and know >> > what they mean. If you translate it into [French? German? I don't >> recall] we will have no idea what you are trying to say." >> >> Which only shows how prevalent really rotten translations done by people >> who don’t understand the material are. Il traduttore è un traditore, as the >> Italians would say. >> >> The translation people that Fuji Xerox had were really good (the German >> version of the Alto and D-machine docs were both readable and >> understandable), but I think Epson takes the prize for the manual for the >> MX80 printer. I teach technical writing occasionally, and that 25+ year >> old manual is still the one I use examples from (IBM ID materials are 2nd >> in line – thanks, IBM). >> >> Translation lives and dies by how well you understand what the author was >> originally intending to say, which is why machine translation – and >> translation done by the lowest bidder -- is still so poor. You get what you >> pay for. >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > -- > Scott Ford > IDMWORKS > z/OS Development > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
