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* We create new language and use metaphors to explain our technology to our users nearly every day.  Be sure to give our localizers the information, insight, and time to do a good job of the same thing in there language.
* We are creating new language and use metaphors to explain our technology to our users nearly every day.  Be sure to give our localizers the information, insight, and time to do a good job and express the same creativity in their language.  English generally allow and accepts this creativity (think about things like our urban dictionaries);  other languages are much more restrictive and use is regulated.


   http://www.economist.com/news/international/21620221-translating-technological-terms-throws-up-some-peculiar-challenges-cookies-caches-and-cows
   http://www.economist.com/news/international/21620221-translating-technological-terms-throws-up-some-peculiar-challenges-cookies-caches-and-cows
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