Technical writing newsletter 36: June 2010
New address and new telephone number
TechScribe has new contact details.
Student project
TechScribe has one student project that is related to language translation. With free machine translation, is international English better than plain English?
Internationalised English
The Language Technologies Unit at Bangor University sponsored the conference 'Terminology and Other Language Resources for Welsh Industry'. Mike Unwalla discussed Internationalised English for international communication (www.saltcymru.org/wordpress/?p=524&lang=en).
Operation manuals for Japan
If you sell your products to a Japanese market, we recommend that you read 'Keys to producing user-friendly manuals for the Japanese market' (www.tcworld.info/index.php?id=142). Toshimasa Yamazaki at Panasonic Corporation explains what your company must do when it supplies printed operation manuals to the Japanese market.
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