Group:
Interesting thought... language localization... Just how much of where it was invented take hold on how the name and or terminology take language root else where. The three starting places of railroading being the UK, USA and Germany whose language for a major invention or innovation did that language (given difference in spelling) become the common term? This is fun, we came up with "frog"... jumping one rail over another..? Did that stay frog when the RR came to Italy or translated to rana?
I'd be curious how the "home" language takes root in other languages... think airplane speak... That bit of language "domination" is more practicality than anything else... Where we're not flitting all over the globe we don't have the same pressures but still..?
Further... I'll admit to trying to shift my localized terminology in posts if I think it might help improve the understand-ability of a post. So why not in the supporting documentation?
Jim Albanowski
