Consistency in Translation

PMs really need to depend on their resources but also make sure to hold them responsible for the quality of the translation. I was working on a format QA (not linguistic at all, I don't speak Estonian) and came across an obvious concistency error. One that I can't believe would be left to a non-linguistic QA to catch.

The style in which terms which appeared in the UI this manual was for was done in at least 4 different ways. It was done in a random combination of: translation in parentheses, just translation, just English, bold, italic, in quotes etc.etc.

I understand the need to use multiple translators on a project, but come on, this kind of thing is a pretty basic instruction, and if you don't catch this in Edit... your editor's an idiot.

Of course around page 200 it gets really really frusterating for me!

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