Re: Translation: simplified English or controlled language (etc.)

[Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>]

Rodger Parson (narrwriter -at- aol -dot- com) wrote:

> While computer driven translation programs have gotten much better, they
> produce a stagnant style that is uninteresting and can tend, in certain
> cases, to repetition.

(*snip*)

The Simplified English tool under discussion doesn't translate anything,
per se; rather, it finds common English words that may be misconstrued
in countries where English is not the normal language -- where "press" may
be misunderstood when used for "push," as I mentioned in my example.

Once the tool has gone through this document, the resulting document
(if necessary) is what would get translated by the translators.

--gdw
>
> Rodger Parsons
> NarrWriter - Voicing the Written Word

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