[thelist] Two Questions

[martin burns]

> <tip="translation" author="Greg Strange/Martin Burns">
> If you want to have your site translated into another language, one way
> to
> cut costs is to let computer translation software translate it for you.
> Then you can take the result to an accredited translation firm to clean
> it
> up and make corrections rather than translate from scratch.  It has cut
> costs for me by 30-40%.  But don't ever just translate with software and
> not
> have a native or certified speaker look at it.

Also make sure that it's a native speaker in the appropriate audience. You're unlikely to get as effective a translation of your Quake into (say) German if you're using an 80-year-old nun as from a teenager who plays it all day every day:
"Was ist 'frag', oder 'rail-gun'?"

> </tip>