Re: [L-A Lokalisointi] Feedback on presentation for Translation department student in Kouvola

Thanks for the test and its feedback, I will make changes to the
presentation to clear up the points you raised.

I will post the new version when it's done, so you can evaluate its
improvements.

Thanks,

-A.

On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 22:00 +0200, Lauri Nurmi wrote:

> pe, 2004-03-19 kello 15:10, Aschwin van der Woude kirjoitti:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The first version is now ready, and I would like to have some feedback
> > from you all about it.
> 
> I made a human experiment, and showed the presentation to a person who
> closely matches the target audience, a student of translation and
> interpreting. 
> 
> Here's a short summary on what she thought about the content of the
> slides:
> 
> - The concept of internalisation was not familiar, was thought to be a 
> part of localisation.
> - Meaning of Gnome, KDE was not well known.
> - Some terms were strange, such as "input method", "glyph".
> - The sentence "Unicode provides a unique number for every character"
> didn't seem to make any sense, because a character being a number is not
> a commonly known fact.
> - "Dynamic substitution" could be mixed up with the term "dynamic
> equivalence", which is used in translation theory.
> - Tricky plurals page; other details of Finnish may be trickier than
> plurals, for example inflecting words.
> 
> 
> 
> - Lauri
> 
> 
> 
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