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Re: Simplified English (take II)

Subject: Re: Simplified English (take II)
From: "Diana Ost" <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:33:56 -0400

Do either of you have an example of something written in simplified English
that is available on the 'Net? I am curious.

Thanks.
Di
pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com


On 9/8/06, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com> wrote:


Geoff Hart wrote:

> [Simplified English is] about controlling vocabulary and grammar
> so tightly that when it's impossible to translate and localize
> documentation, you can produce something that any reader who has
> been trained to understand this subset of standard English will
> be able to understand--no matter what their native language and
> skill as a reader.

And that's true even if the reader's native language is
English.

> It's clearly a suboptimal solution (i.e., full translation and
> localization is better in an ideal situation), but often
> simplified English is the only feasible solution.

Fortunately, documents written using the ASD-STE100 rules
are significantly easier to translate than documents written
in uncontrolled English. In fact, much of the early work
that led to ASD-STE100 was done specifically to facilitate
translation.

-Andrew

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