RE: Simplified English (take II)

["Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

Geoff Hart wrote:

> [Simplified English is] about controlling vocabulary and grammar
> so tightly that when it's impossible to translate and localize
> documentation, you can produce something that any reader who has
> been trained to understand this subset of standard English will
> be able to understand--no matter what their native language and
> skill as a reader.

    And that's true even if the reader's native language is
    English.

> It's clearly a suboptimal solution (i.e., full translation and
> localization is better in an ideal situation), but often
> simplified English is the only feasible solution.

    Fortunately, documents written using the ASD-STE100 rules
    are significantly easier to translate than documents written
    in uncontrolled English.  In fact, much of the early work
    that led to ASD-STE100 was done specifically to facilitate
    translation.

    -Andrew

=== Andrew Warren  - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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