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Subject:Re: Bad translations? From:Suzette Seveny <sseveny -at- PETVALU -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:16:33 -0500
Ok, at the risk of sounding stupid... what does the 18 stand for? The word
localization contains 12 letters (I counted 3 times to make sure - I'm not
great at math). Eighteen certainly isn't the number of letters in the word
Internationalization, that's 20. What am I missing here?
Suzette Seveny
Markham, Ontario, Canada
sseveny -at- petvalu -dot- com or suzette -at- yesic -dot- com
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