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Re: Translating RE: Culture, or What it means to be a Technical Writer
Subject:Re: Translating RE: Culture, or What it means to be a Technical Writer From:Damien Braniff <Damien_Braniff -at- PAC -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Fri, 8 May 1998 16:42:34 +0100
>>The author is a better writer than I am. I'm not
translating his work so normal people can understand it, it's quite
comprehensible as it is. But it answers the questions that developers
ask, not the questions that users ask.>>
But isn't that what it's all about - other developers don't need a
"translation", the users do?
