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		masklinn on Jan 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to Yo... > A professional translator makes sure to check the context of the translation, it doesn't go blindly translating sentences and words without context. 1. professional translators are human and make mistakes 2. context may not be available for third-party translators working on e.g. unreleased software strings (see currently top comment by "eloisant")

dyadic on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

Somewhat relevant given the topic, don't read "it" at not-human.

Not everyone here speaks English as a first language and translating a non-gendered/unknown pronoun to English may result in "it".

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