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Google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FPenge%2F2013%2F03%2F03%2F03201749.htm http://tr

Google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2FNyheder%2FPenge%2F2013%2F03%2F03%2F03201749.htm http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl...

ars 14y ago
Could someone do a human translation? This is enough to get the general idea, but not the details.
- mborch 14y ago
  There isn't much more to it. As said in another comment, it's a "classical transfer pricing case". Google Translate doesn't do a very good job though: > Neither Honey, Microsoft or the IRS IRS wants to comment on the pending tax to DR2. "Honey" here would be the Danish tax authority, SKAT, which means tax, but also treasure, and is often used similarly to the English "honey".
- runesoerensen 14y ago
  TNW article in english: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/03/04/blurred-navision-microsoft-may-owe-denmark-more-than-1-billion-in-monster-tax-case/ http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/03/04/blurred-navision-...
- pessimism 14y ago
  Done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317835 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317835. :)
flexie 14y ago
Notice that in the Google translate version 10.8 billion kroner is translated to 10.8 billion dollars. Google Translate often does that :-)
- thejosh 14y ago
  Because it is the exact translation. It would be nice if they converted it into your currency or just leave it as the original currency.
  - flexie 14y ago
    No, kroner doesn't translate to dollars anymore than inches translates to centimeters.
  - kome 14y ago
    > Because it is the exact translation. No, it's not.
  - unwind 14y ago
    There's nothing exact about it, it's just wrong and very very confusing. A currency is a unit, a scale-factor. It can only be translated if you also translate, i.e. re-compute, the corresponding measure (the number itself). I would classify this a major bug, the reasonable thing if they don't want to fix it (since fixing it requires reaching out to a time-dependent currency conversion table, it might be a non-desirable thing to do) they should just not translate that part at all. Then it becomes up to the reader to go back and look up the currency in question, instead of just thinking it's already been done.
  - jonascopenhagen 14y ago
    The exact translation of kroner would be kroner - not dollars. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kroner http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kroner
- okamiueru 14y ago
  Not to mention that a Danish "billion" is not the same as a US "billion". A Danish, Norwegian, Swedish ("biljon" ) billion is 10^12, a US billion is 10^9. It's utterly confusing sometimes, and this is one of the fewer cases where US metric makes much more sense. US: million, billion, trillion. 10^6, 10^9, 10^12 Skandinavia: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard 10^6, 10^9, 10^12, etc PS: I don't know about the rest of the world.

ars 14y ago

Could someone do a human translation? This is enough to get the general idea, but not the details.

mborch 14y ago
There isn't much more to it. As said in another comment, it's a "classical transfer pricing case". Google Translate doesn't do a very good job though: > Neither Honey, Microsoft or the IRS IRS wants to comment on the pending tax to DR2. "Honey" here would be the Danish tax authority, SKAT, which means tax, but also treasure, and is often used similarly to the English "honey".
runesoerensen 14y ago
TNW article in english: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/03/04/blurred-navision-microsoft-may-owe-denmark-more-than-1-billion-in-monster-tax-case/ http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/03/04/blurred-navision-...
pessimism 14y ago
Done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317835 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317835. :)

flexie 14y ago

Notice that in the Google translate version 10.8 billion kroner is translated to 10.8 billion dollars. Google Translate often does that :-)

thejosh 14y ago
Because it is the exact translation. It would be nice if they converted it into your currency or just leave it as the original currency.
- flexie 14y ago
  No, kroner doesn't translate to dollars anymore than inches translates to centimeters.
- kome 14y ago
  > Because it is the exact translation. No, it's not.
- unwind 14y ago
  There's nothing exact about it, it's just wrong and very very confusing. A currency is a unit, a scale-factor. It can only be translated if you also translate, i.e. re-compute, the corresponding measure (the number itself). I would classify this a major bug, the reasonable thing if they don't want to fix it (since fixing it requires reaching out to a time-dependent currency conversion table, it might be a non-desirable thing to do) they should just not translate that part at all. Then it becomes up to the reader to go back and look up the currency in question, instead of just thinking it's already been done.
- jonascopenhagen 14y ago
  The exact translation of kroner would be kroner - not dollars. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kroner http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kroner
okamiueru 14y ago
Not to mention that a Danish "billion" is not the same as a US "billion". A Danish, Norwegian, Swedish ("biljon" ) billion is 10^12, a US billion is 10^9. It's utterly confusing sometimes, and this is one of the fewer cases where US metric makes much more sense. US: million, billion, trillion. 10^6, 10^9, 10^12 Skandinavia: million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard 10^6, 10^9, 10^12, etc PS: I don't know about the rest of the world.