Dilbert: Translating Documentation from Elbonian

It usually pays off to ensure your technical writers are well trained long before documentation needs to be translated.

Somewhere in Elbonia

Dilbert: I've been assigned to check the software you're writing for us under contract.
Elbonian #1: The documentation is written in our own Elbonian language.
Elbonian #2: Is that a problem?
Dilbert: That's better than I'd hoped. I was afraid no one here knew how to write.
Elbonian #1: Writing is easy. Someday we hope to read too.

Scott Adams has created some great Dilbert comic strips related to translation. Here are a few more:

• Tina's Chinese Translation
• Minor Translation Issues
• Spanish-English Translation from the "No Help Whatsoever Desk"