- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:01:55 +0900
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
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Controlled Vocabularies Aid Translation and Content Management [[[ One conclusion is that people can easily be confused by the multiple meanings and synonyms that words can have, as well as by complex sentence structures. But if we look closer at the users of technical information, we can also conclude that in today's world of globalization our audience has changed, and we need to adapt to that. If we look at the readers of our documentation around the world, we see that often English is not their native language. This (surprisingly) also applies to the United States. Although English is the main language spoken in the United States, recent studies suggest that this will most likely change in the not too distance future. Much of the world's population is already multi-lingual, and the United States is following suit. In 2003, the Census Bureau reported that nearly one American in five speaks a language other than English at home, with Spanish leading, followed by Chinese. To learn more about langauges spoken in the US, see the Census Bureau report, Percent of People 5 Years and Over Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home. ]]] -- Required Reading | The Rockley Bulletin http://rockleybulletin.com/requiredreading_comments.php? id=167_0_5_0_C 2006年10月03日 23:59:39 GMT -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/ *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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