Here are some techniques that you can use right away to make your text more readable around the world whether or not it gets translated.
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Marcia Riefer Johnston has an excellent article on her Writing Rocks blog today about Global English, and shows fantastic examples of how word choices can make a difference not only for comprehension when translating, but how it can affect costs down the line.
Great article!
–TechCommGeekMom
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Glad you found this article helpful, Danielle. Thank you for sharing it. Hat tip to Scott Abel for the webinar he hosted and pointed me to on this subject. Also, kudos to the webinar leaders, Greg Adams and Matthew Kaul, for the excellent material.