[australia] Simplified English

[James Robertson]

Hi Marius,

You might also be interested in the work done by Susan Harkus (who's
based in Sydney) on writing for automated translation. This is one of
her recent articles:

http://users.bigpond.net.au/susan_harkus/W4T-article-test.html

(Susan has done some tremendous work on this, which I would highly
recommend.)

Cheers,
James

> Hi,
>  
> Does anyone on this list have any experience with "simplified english", 
> as used in technical documentation? There was a recent post on the The 
> Content Wrangler pointing to a Dutch company (Tedopres) which promotes 
> it. I can certainly see the application of it in reducing ambiguity and 
> to ease translation.
>  
> By the way, before you click the "free 112 page booklet", mentioned in 
> the Content Wrangler read this blog post of mine: 
> http://weblog.activeweb.com.au/
>  
> Other links:
> TCW http://thecontentwrangler.com/article/a_get_a_free_simplified_technical_english_book_from_tedopres/ 
> 
> Tedopres http://www.controlledenglish.com/
> Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_English
>  
> Regards,
> Marius Coomans
> Active Web Communications Pty Ltd
> 
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