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There are many reasons why using English makes sense, but saving costs on translation is just not that.

Unless you are bilingual the lost productivity of having to use non native language in business context would easily dwarf any cost savings, due to misunderstandings, miscommunication, not "Punkt genau" documentation etc ...

Heck, anyone can just try to do an IQ test in non-native language and see how the score drops.



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