The English language is quite simple in its grammatical construction (limited conjugation, no gender differences). You can therefore easily build phrases by concatenation. However, it is rare that this will work for other languages. This practice should be avoided in order to prevent grammatically incorrect translations. Read on to see three concrete examples of how English concatenation impacts translation.

KEYWORDS: concatenation, internationalization, localization best practices, software localization

 

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