"Appears" vs. "will appear"

[Mike Starr]

Sorry... I don't buy that one. Does that mean I need to ratchet back the 
reading level of all of my documentation? Someone who's in the process of 
learning the language can probably misinterpret 60% of the terminology in a 
technical manual. I consider my audience to be generally educated 
non-specialists and write accordingly.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Gelb" <janice.gelb at sun.com>
To: <techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: "Appears" vs. "will appear"

> 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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