Archives for January, 2010
PowerPoint torture
“Japanese clients use PowerPoint for the wrong reasons; they stick as much information as possible onto a single slide, and it’s hell on the translator who’s told to use the same layout for the English.”
Sound familiar? Well here’s a little something Younghusband at Coming Anarchy has shared with us:
Doesn’t look like the Japanese have a monopoly on insane levels of data presentation per PPT slide. And yes, of course it’s the US military that has gotten in on the game. (The image above is linked to a PDF of the full presentation, if you want to view it and ponder what an E-J translator might feel at the sight of this monstrosity.)
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