Re: Converting American English to British English

["Van Laan, Krista" <KVanlaan -at- verisign -dot- com>]

I posted this question but am on digest and haven't had a chance to read the
digest for
a couple of days. The documents are technical documents in HTML and it was
recommended that I
send them out to a translation company to be localized into British English.
I was looking
for a way to save time and money, since I'm not convinced it's necessary to
send them out. 
I can use Word to do a spell check, but I was curious
if there was something else I could use that was automated.

There aren't any life-and-death matters in these documents, and probably not
much that
is cultural...

 Krista

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Krista Van Laan
Director of Technical Communications, Security Services
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Michael West wrote:

David Neeley wrote:

> > Best practices for localization or translation should always include a 
> > person whose primary language and cultural experience is of native 
> > familiarity. No list of differences can be exhaustive, and as you know 
> > technical docs are often very specialized and beyond the ken of the 
> > lists such as you have alluded to.
> 
> We don't know what sort of documents we're talking
> about -- which is why I put the question to the original poster. If we're
talking about ordinary Windows software 
> applications, for example, the same vocabulary applies in England and the
US.
> 
> British English is not a foreign language (the opinions of
> some Brits to the contrary notwithstanding.
> 
> I agree, as I wrote, with the wisdom of using a  human
> editor for cultural issues, or for health and safety issues. But  unless
we're telepathetic, we don't know whether > such issues are involved in this
case --  which, again, is why I asked the question.
>