"Appears" vs. "will appear"

Janice Gelb janice.gelb at sun.com
Thu May 3 17:03:01 MDT 2007


Mike Starr wrote:
> I'd suggest if your localization vendor has a problem with the common 
> usage of a term, it's time to seek a more qualified localization vendor. 
> If you were using machine translation, I could understand adopting a 
> "single use for all terms" approach but real translators ought to be 
> able to read a sentence and understand easily from context that I'm not 
> talking about LCD or CRT displays. As far as I'm concerned, any 
> translator who expresses difficulty with something as easy as this is 
> incompetent.
> 

We take all localization objections as applying
not only to translators but also people reading
our documentation who have English as a second
language. If it's a red flag for the translators,
it's probably potentially going to confuse ESL
readers as well.

-- Janice

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