RE: French Terms

At 10:52 AM 09/23/1999 -0400, you wrote:

OS/400 (and many licensed program products) are translated into 51 (I think 
that this number is current) different languages.  There are language 
translation centers where this is done.

This is one reason that the AS/400 is to popular abroad.

Al


>Jon --
>
>This totally blows my mind.
>
>Are you saying that a company with IBM's resources was using "SEs working in
>their spare time" to do translations??
>
>They didn't hire a company to do it? Amazing.
>
>Not necessarily bad ... just astounding.
>
>Peace,
>
>-- Don "I'm illiterate in 26 different languages!" Schenck
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
>Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 5:53 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: French Terms
>
>I suggest that you have a knowledgeable French MIS person (not someone from
>Quebec - there are too many differences in the dialect) check out the
>translations.  If you do not know anyone I could supply some references if
>needed.  Why? because while I worked for IBM the biggest complaint we got
>from
>Europe was that the translations were so bad that many users prefer to run
>their
>system in English so they can understand what is going on!!  Many years ago
>translation was done by SEs working in their spare time - the translations
>were
>accurate and reflected the correct technical usage of the language.  Then
>some
>genius decided that using professional translators would be cheaper.
>Trouble is
>they are not computer literate.  Over the years as computer terms invaded
>daily
>life the translations have improved, but it is a long way from being
>perfect.
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