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Hi, I attended a special lesson about preparing of texts (for translation, that is the topic, of course).
There are some rules.
1. Write short and concise.2. Use the same wording for the same content.3. Prepare a style guide. (This is what you actually do for this.)
But the original must be true and concise, of course.
I did not know the "combine not and words" part for asian language.
So I have to add: Do not forget the destination languages.
Best regardsBernd
PS: For the original question, is there any context?
Steve Hudson <sh1448291904 -at- gmail -dot- com> schrieb am 0:26 Dienstag, 6.Oktober 2015:
If a target language is Asian, I would avoid the "not" versions of words.
That is:
 - a is unable to do b * > * a is not able to do b
 - x is unsuccessful * > * x is not successful
Rationale:
Many machine translations have difficulty associating the 'not' with the
correct word, and often end up missing the not altogether, which is very
dangerous.
There are also a bunch of other tips, such as being very rigid with the
order of time, place and so on, and keeping phrases punctuated and simple.
I noticed many of the replies were actually answering "Best way to write
this" and missed the "for translation"...
Steve Hudson
Word Heretic
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