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Fish the day... Jul 5, 2004

In order to replace a human translator, a PC should reach a very very high level of perfection. High enough to be perfectly imperfect.

Subtleties, second and third and fourth meanings, grays, hey, you know!.

"Mary had a little lamb" has more than 10 possible translations in Spanish...(from food connotation to sexual ones).

May be wishful thinking, may be I have no left side brain...

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In order to replace a human translator, a PC should reach a very very high level of perfection. High enough to be perfectly imperfect.

Subtleties, second and third and fourth meanings, grays, hey, you know!.

"Mary had a little lamb" has more than 10 possible translations in Spanish...(from food connotation to sexual ones).

May be wishful thinking, may be I have no left side brain...

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Corrollary to the rule of threes Jul 5, 2004

MarcPrior wrote:

As reflected in the "rule of threes" for technical documentation:

Time allocated to develop new high-tech product: 3 years.
Time allocated to write documentation: 3 weeks.
Time allocated to translate documentation: 3 days.

Marc


Time allocated to type the documentation: 6 days.
Time allocated to translate it: 3 days (after all, it's been typed already...)
 
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