@david_chisnall @datarama I was unlucky; my writing was translated to my mother language, but a) I think they picked a cheap translation provider b) it was translated to an "averaged American Spanish", which feels foreign to me (as a mainland Spain speaker who avoids reading Spanish technical writing).
I think we had some translation process were authors participated, but I was never invited. I think I would not have been useful anyway.
@datarama @david_chisnall but your story adds to my belief that good translators are worth their weight in gold (edit: and horribly undervalued in the real world).
They also did an Italian translation of one of mine. Apparently it was hilarious: technical terms translated as the word used for the same English word in non-technical contexts. They didn't send me any questions at all.
The Japanese translator sent me a bunch of clarification questions and reported several issues.
You could probably replace the Italian one with an LLM and do a slightly better job. There's no way you could replace the Japanese one.
