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	 BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }At
a previous job, we had a "professional agency" involved to carry out
some translations for an internal company web application that I had
written into Slovakian.

	Once the app was complete and translated (which was an exciting part
of the job once we progressed into Poland, Turkey, Hungary, China,
Malaysia, Czech Republic, Thailand)
 Websites are easy with simplified Chinese text compared to Malaysian
which has some very long words (especially for plurals!).

	As the company expanded into each country, we employed a native
speaker from each country to work in the international support team,
and this is where the fun started!
	It had a number of tabs across the top of the page:-

	"Home", "Customers", "Orders", "Diary", "Tracking", "Admin"

	One day I was explaining to the Slovakian chap how the application
worked when he started to giggle..=20

	*Pointing at 'Tracking'*     "What does this word mean?"
 "That is for finding where a customer order is in the system, for
example in manufacturing, warehouse, shipping, in-store, or
delivered"
 "Ah, I see, but the word you have here is for chasing small animals
through the forest".
	Whilst the agency had translated correctly, they had taken no
account of the context of the words.
	I wont even get started on the challenges in Thailand with dates!!
	-Jim
 Happily working on the smaller domain of embedded systems with no
translations required at this point!
	On Wed 01/05/13  1:32 AM , RussellMc apptechnz@gmail.com sent:
 > This is more along the lines of what I meant. It is my fault, I
should
 > have phrased it more appropriately. ...
 A good response.
 The explanation does much more justice to your point than the one
liner.
 Alas, you lose the nice impact of a one liner with an explanation
:-)
     Russell
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