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Re: localizing gerunds? (was: Writing English for Translation)
Subject:Re: localizing gerunds? (was: Writing English for Translation) From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:TechWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:53:52 -0700
Because localization pricing is usually based on source word count.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com>wrote:
> 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?"
>
>
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