RE: localizing gerunds? (was: Writing English for Translation)

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Monique Semp wrote: 
 
> Procedure writing advice seems pretty unanimous in recommending that
> gerunds
> be used, but localization advice seems to come out strongly against
> them.
> 
> Well, mostly.  In Leah Guren's presentation in the recent User
> Assistance
> conference, we discussed this and her experience has been that
> localization
> vendors haven't had any problems with properly translating her
> procedure's
> gerunds into the target languages.

When I was first creating a doc that would be translated, I was told "don't use gerunds." My response was, "Why not? Are the translators we use incompetent?" 


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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