How to and the Gerund Response

[wanda <wanda -dot- jane -at- gmail -dot- com>]

The issue with a gerund, as I understand it, is this: translating it, 
like so much of translation, depends as much on the the noun being acted 
upon as the verb. I think that some of the issue is a legacy of 
machine-translation (as opposed to machine-assisted translation) where 
the context may get munged.
We've been using gerunds to indicate task topics long before we moved to 
strategies such as DITA. Our translations don't seem to have suffered.
My penny,
Wanda

Debra Stamnitz wrote:
> I've heard gerunds are bad if you plan to translate the document.  Is this true? We are getting ready to do our first translation this summer.
>    
>   Debra
>   
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