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Let's say I'm an employer in Dallas, Texas and most of my business documentation in English, but my employees are ethnically diverse, including Spanish, Cambodian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic.
Anyone wanna help translate the Cambodian or Arabic documents?
Oh, and if you think all of those people can't possibly work together in one store, let me take you to the Walmart down the street.
>>> John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> 11/06/00 02:48PM >>>
Let's say I'm American on assignment in France.
MY own language is English, but my company's language is French.
?
>> MOS tells me that I should avoid the term "localized,"
>> but I'm not sure what other term I can use in this
>> situation.
>> Advice anyone?
> How about... in the employee's own language?
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