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At 1:43 PM 3/22/95 -0700, Suzanne Lee wrote:
>This is for anyone who works with translation/international issues:
>My (software) company is creating several tests/exercises to screen
>potential distributors overseas, mostly in Europe and Asia. Our software
>and all manuals are in English, but I assume most of these people use
>English as a second language. So here's the question:
>Will they know the phrase "vice versa?" If not, what is a not-too-wordy
>replacement phrase that implies the same thing?
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Vive versa is Latin, believe me, they'll understand it.
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