Comments on: English typing computer http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/2042/ Treacle tarts for great justice Sat, 18 May 2013 12:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Simon http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/2042/comment-page-1/#comment-4207 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:54:55 +0000 http://aharoni.wordpress.com/?p=2042#comment-4207 I agree, the phenomenon doesn’t seem to be the case in Europe – potential clients there *do* speak English (and very well, based on my recent vacation there), but wouldn’t find it acceptable to not have a native translation.

But in India, it was different – they felt that having an English version of our product was more useful to them than one translated into the local languages (primarily Punjabi, Hindi and Telugu, in the states we were dealing with).

]]> By: aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/2042/comment-page-1/#comment-4205 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 03:19:25 +0000 http://aharoni.wordpress.com/?p=2042#comment-4205 I hear this claim all the time, and reply that Europe has a lot of dialects, too, and nevertheless you’ll find French computers in France, Italian in Italy, Spanish in Spain, German in Germany and so on. (Also, in both cases these are languages, not dialects. People who don’t know what dialects are shouldn’t use the word.)

]]> By: Simon http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/2042/comment-page-1/#comment-4204 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:25:15 +0000 http://aharoni.wordpress.com/?p=2042#comment-4204 It’s not actually that surprising. My company briefly demoed to several potential clients in India a few years ago, and it was interesting to find that they had no interest in translating the UI – with so many local dialects in use throughout India, they feel it’s just easier to use English for business purposes.

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