--- Forwarded Message from John de Szendeffy <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:43 -0400 >From: John de Szendeffy <[log in to unmask]> >Organization: Boston University >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7292.2 Chinese (!) >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I can't imagine that very many technical support organizations in colleges > and universities could support non-English versions of operating systems. I > certainly wouldn't try. I have to say that I got a kick out of this. Though it certainly seems reasonable--that a student should be running an English version of the OS if he wants it repaired by tech support here--but the PC laptops that we spend so much time fixing for our students rarely have an English OS. Our students are frequently impressed that we can read Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Russian . . . Not quite. The windows, tabs, dialog boxes, and icons are all the same as the English version. If you are familiar enough with them, you don't read them in English anyway and can navigate in another language. Still, every now and then, we take a chance responding to a dialog box that we can't read and make the wrong choice. Some of our students English proficiency is just too low to help much with the very technical translation. -John _____________________________________________ John de Szendeffy Multimedia Language Lab Center for English Language and Orientation Programs Boston University Ph. 617.353.7957 Lab: http://www.bu.edu/celop/mll WebFeat: http://people.bu.edu/johndesz