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Mesa no kno wot doo—Why robots don't sell apps in Germany

Marianna Sacra November 16, 2015

First impressions matter. You don’t go on a date with food in your teeth. You don’t go to a job interview in ripped trousers (heavy metal drummer interviews excluded, of course). You don’t meet your in-laws hungover from the previous night. And you don’t put your app for sale in local app stores with a machine translated app description. Especially not in Germany.

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Marianna is an English-into-German game localization specialist based in New England.

She loves translating story-based games.

She blogs irregularly these days, but when you do, you’ll find her musing about game localization, sharing translation tips, and interviewing people from the video game industry.

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