RE: Translations and addresses

Subject: RE: Translations and addresses
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Boudreaux, Madelyn \(GE Healthcare, consultant\)" <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:10:45 -0700

Boudreaux, Madelyn wrote:

> I have to include 2 addresses in our documents, one in the US and one
in
> France, and I don't know whether to ask the translators to translate
> these country names or leave them in English.

Translate the name for France into French: "France"

No, wait! Leave it in English: "France"

;-)


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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