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Using Controlled English: does it help? | About Controlled English

Jeff Allen — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:13:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: Using Controlled English: does it help?
Poster: Jeff Allen
Post title: About Controlled English

Globlish and controlled/simplified languages
[url removed] #222849

Controlled Langage, Speech translation, etc
[url removed] #270509

aerospace language
[url removed] #274077

[quote]Tsu Dho Nimh wrote:

We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize.

I am already convinced it will work. What I need is input from translators who work with controlled and uncontrolled English source files.

Does it help you? How does it help? How much faster are you? What is the error rate between controlled and uncontrolled source texts? [/quote]

Controlled English (CE) and Simplified English (SE) are not exactly the same thing. SE is one example of a CE that was created by AECMA in the 1980s for aerospace documentation. It was aimed for readability of the texts, not for translatability. Other types of CE, such as Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) were in fact designed with translation in mind. I explain this in one of my articles on the topic.

Controlled Languages web site: [url removed]

See the following previous posts:

Controlled languages web site
[url removed] #174717

Globlish and controlled/simplified languages
[url removed] #222849

Controlled Langage, Speech translation, etc
[url removed] #270509

aerospace language
[url removed] #274077

Jeff

Using Controlled English: does it help? | All about solving the wrong problem

Peter Bouillon — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:12:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: Using Controlled English: does it help?
Poster: Peter Bouillon
Post title: All about solving the wrong problem

Tsu Dho Nimh wrote:

[quote]We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize. [/quote]

Well, I'm not keen on [i]reading[/i] "controlled" language, translated or otherwise.

P.

Using Controlled English: does it help?

Tsu Dho Nimh — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:43:00 +0000

Forum: Localization
Topic: Using Controlled English: does it help?
Poster: Tsu Dho Nimh

We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize.

I am already convinced it will work. What I need is input from translators who work with controlled and uncontrolled English source files.

Does it help you? How does it help? How much faster are you? What is the error rate between controlled and uncontrolled source texts?