Globalization Insider

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Globalization Technology Will Prevail • Pierre Cadieux, i18N Inc.
Director’s letter (premium) • Michael Anobile
Time For a Change (premium) • Jaap van der Meer, ALPNET & LISA Supervisory Committee
Back into the LEIT • Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University), Erika Walker (University of Washington), Arle Lommel (LISA) & Alison Rowles (SMP Marketing Sarl)
Money Talks (premium) • John Freivalds, JFA Inc.
LISA Profiles: Jochen Hummel
INDUSTRY RESPONSE: Walk about in the Graveyard (premium) • Michel Balcaen, WizArt
INDUSTRY RESPONSE: The Globalization Services Industry—Running in Place? (premium) • Donald J. Plumley, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Bowne Global Solutions
Designing Cross-Cultural Speech Applications (premium) • José Elizondo, Peter Crimmin and Paul Greiner, Speechworks International, Inc.
Content Management and Localization (premium) • Otto de Graff, Tridion
Globalizing Painlessly with Automated Content Enrichment (premium) • Marc Bookman, CEO, Sentius Corporation
How Unicode is Conquering the World (premium) • François Yergeau, Director, Technology, Alis Technologies Inc.
Is there a Universal Creole for Localization Efforts? (premium) • Marilyn Mason and Jeffrey Allen, Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd. (MIT2)

Is there a Universal Creole for Localization Efforts?

Marilyn Mason and Jeffrey Allen, Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd. (MIT2)

Within the localization field, we often speak about differentiating between regional and local varieties of a given language, especially major international languages. For example: Latin American Spanish versus Continental Spanish; Mexican Spanish versus Argentinean Spanish. Software manufacturers of spellcheckers are often critiqued by some users with regard to the high number of specific local varieties of languages that are identified in advanced spellcheckers, yet those of us who work in the field of localization know indeed that there are differences between the local varieties. In working with a client, the objective is to identify the appropriate dialect(s) for a given job request and to implement the corresponding standards of the selected variety. However, not much written material can be found about these types of local differences.

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