On Wednesday 02 Apr 2008 9:47:32 am Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > Danese Cooper wrote: > | When I worked for Apple we did a product with French engineers and a > | Japanese customer (NTT). We had these daily video conferences with the > | customer, and they used to say things like, "If you don't fix this > | (completely cosmetic) bug...you will be victimized" > > that's an odd sentence construct :)
I suspect that there must be a Japanese word that means something like "penalize/suffer punishment/be made victim because of your guilt" which is being mistranslated in this manner. Who's the Japanese expert here - or maybe Google uncle can help. shiv
