Excerpt from a Technical Marketing Doc
Translation? Localization? Adaptation? Transcreation? I knew the translation client would distribute the text in a brochure at an international trade show. Something in the logic of the German original aroused my suspicion, so I researched distributed-queue dual-bus networks, then wrote up my results in an appropriate, original-English style.
German Source Material
Gesendet wird—je nachdem, in welcher Richtung der Netzknoten mit dem Kommunikationsziel liegt—auf Bus A oder B. Hierzu muß nur vor der Übertragung auf dem gegenüberliegenden Bus bei dem zeitlich vorher liegenden Netzknoten der Sendewunsch durch Setzen eines «Request» im «Slot» kundgetan werden. Durch das Konkurrenzverhalten der Netzknoten ist hierbei der faire Buszugriff gewährleistet.
Typical Translation
This version would probably suffice for the import market, where the text might be used for the information of a third party, although it sounds quite German and contains some factual errors.
Transmission is made—depending on in which direction the network node with the communications goal lies—on bus A or B. To do this, the desire to send must simply be announced on the opposite bus at the previous network node before the transmission by the setting of a “request” in the “slot.” Fair bus access is guaranteed in this by the competitive behavior of the network nodes.
Text for a Trade Show Brochure by Matt Hammond, LLC
I was suspicious about the assumption (present in the German) that competition guarantees fairness, so I went to a local technical library and researched DQDB networks. Then I wrote up the results in a style appropriate for a brochure to be distributed at a trade show.
The nodes can use either bus A or bus B for transmission, depending on which one provides a shorter route to the destination node. The source node requests transmission by placing a request in a slot on the opposite bus. The upstream head node then sends the requested slots back down the correct bus to the requesting node. Access to a bus is always possible because the nodes use only the empty slots they themselves requested.
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