Translation and Technology Backview

Q:  Some languages seem so illogical can cause trouble with technology.

Over the centuries, spoken and written languages have randomly evolved out of the human imagination.  In fact, human language has continued to transform to include the ideas and emotions of millions of people.  For computer programmers, this morphing of human spoken and written language is considered illogical chaos.  Computer applications and software are built upon the concept of logic, organization, true assumptions and process management.

This battle between unsystematic human language and controlled computer programming causes companies to either decide not to translate and personalize their applications, due to high cost and lack of time, or to de-humanize the application as much as possible, in order to cut back on the cost and time consumption for new languages and personalized versions.

All over the world, marketing professionals and technical staff regularly conduct product development and strategic meetings.  The marketing professionals envision global sales, and new personalizations for their clients and users.  Meanwhile, the technical staff foresees global headaches and a waste of precious development time and resources.

The limits to developer time and money generally win, with a compromise being reached to generally ignore most potential global sales, or decrease the user experience in order to avoid programming issues related to language localization and personalization.

This compromise decreases sales.

Alternatively, localization is commonly outsourced to specialized companies that perform the code localization tasks normally performed by the original developers. After several months or a year, the new translated version arrives, by which time the original master version of the software has grown and expanded, therefore no longer compatible with the translated version.

Until the GlobalConcat System Localizer, that makes even the most complex localization of machines controllable and the results grammatically perfect.  Is worth looking into, if you have systems like IVR, Kiosks, etc.

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