NEC in Italian

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Is the NEC available in Italian?
If not is there a software program that could conver the PDF version from english to Italian?
 
Re: NEC in Italian

Originally posted by tom baker:
Is the NEC available in Italian?

Doubtful. I suspect there isn't enough demand for it.

If not is there a software program that could conver the PDF version from english to Italian?

I hope you aren't serious. :)

Think about how much trouble we native speakers of Engish have when we argue about what a particular section of the code says in English. Software translations are crude at best, and crude is not what we want when we're talking about a document that usually has the force of law.

I used to do translation work for a law firm, and I can tell you how difficult it is to translate law from one language to another. I would be very suspicious of any translation that was done by software.
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Originally posted by peter d:
Now Scott, you should know better than to make comments that are offensive to Italian Americans.

:D
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Yeah, and besides...we can't see your hands moving.
 
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When I told my Dad I was going to be an "Electrisicle Type Guy", I thought his answer was refering to an "Institution of Higher Learning" ... "Wattsa Mahta U" ... never did find the Place ...

the original "Super" ... M
 
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Originally posted by c-h:. . . but the Italian code is on the net:
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I think that is easier to read than the NEC. Perhaps we should adopt it? :D
 
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Originally posted by mario:
When I told my Dad I was going to be an "Electrisicle Type Guy", I thought his answer was refering to an "Institution of Higher Learning" ... "Wattsa Mahta U" ... never did find the Place ...
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:D :D
 
Re: NEC in Italian

Originally posted by peter d:
Now Scott, you should know better than to make comments that are offensive to Italian Americans.

:D
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We are going to make this a meatball city again! :eek:
 
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Originally posted by charlie b:
I think that is easier to read than the NEC. Perhaps we should adopt it?
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In Italian?!? Now, that's raising the bar... :)
 
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c-h,
This seems to be true.
Using
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html
[which is an excellent, web-based, FREE translator by the way] I get:
Here is an example:
In Italian:
47157-64 Presa bipolare reversibile con contatto di terra adatta a spinotti tondi per corrente alternata 16A 250V ESECUZIONE SPORGENTE
In English:
47157-64 Taken bipolar reversible with earth contact adapted to round wrist pins for alternating current 16A 250V EXECUTION SPORGENTE
~Peter
 
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