Not Everything Translates Well
Not everything translates well
Not everything translates well… This could mean ‘OK’ in UK or USA but ‘zero’ in Russia or worse perhaps “go f@$k yourself in South America!?
It is means ‘Money’ in Japan apparently?
Even with a local translator you have to careful! A colleague when working in China with a group of Senior Managers attempting to impress upon them “the importance of change management in the organisation” through a translator, not knowing that there was no real translation for “Change Management” got his key note address to them translated as ” What’s important here is to change the management of the organisation” !!! It took a long while to find out that this had happened and he had lost one or two friends along the way.
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