RE: Translations

["Sharon Burton" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com>]

Have you thought of using one of those websites that translates from another
lang to English and showing the output to him? And then ask if that level of
Quality is OK. If it is, you're happy to move forward.


sharon

Sharon Burton
CEO, Anthrobytes Consulting
951-369-8590
www.anthrobytes.com


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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:45 PM
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Subject: Translations


I'm hoping someone out there can help me...

My current employer has a need to translate some of our documents (FM) to
Spanish (LA) and French (Canada). Many of our customers are asking/demanding
our manuals be translated. I have investigated various translation services
etc. and have together with our VP of International sales, proposed a plan
to recoup our translation costs. Everything looks good...

We presented our plan to our CEO who promptly shot it down saying he
wouldn't approve the plan but would approve "software" to do the
translations...

Okay, aside from all of the obvious problems with this scenario, how can I
go about educating him on the short comings of machine translation? Has
anyone been down this road before?


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