The document summarizes a study that examined the attitudes of native English and Burmese speakers toward trilingual signs and advertisements in Maesot, Thailand. The study involved taking pictures of signs, creating questionnaires, distributing the questionnaires to 5 native English speakers and 2 native Burmese speakers, and categorizing any translation problems found. The results showed that the Burmese translations had no mistakes, while the English translations had no serious mistakes but some contained short messages that required guessing the meaning from accompanying pictures rather than the text alone.

1. Native English
and Burmese speakers’
attitude toward
trilingual signs and
advertisements
in Maesot
Siwadee Akkaraphot
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2. PURPOSE
To find out the mistakes in translation
between 3 languages and how to fix them

3. PROCEDURES
1. Take pictures
2. Make the questionnaires
3. Hand out questionnaires
4. Categorize the problems found

4. SUBJECTS
5 native English speakers
2 native Burmese speakers

5. Scoring criteria 3,2,1,0

6. Figure 1
English 3 3 3 3 3
Burmese 3 3

7. Figure 2
English 3 3 3 3 3
- If you know this religion, you understand this sign.
Burmese 3 3

8. Figure 3
English 3 3 2.5 2 2
- A dash between "Thailand-Myanmar"
- I understand it right away but there should be a dash
Burmese 3 3

9. Figure 4
English
3 3 3 3 3
- Looks much shorter
than Thai and Burmese
but it makes sense
- English seems much more
concise
Burmese
3 3

10. Figure 5
English
2 1 1 1 2
- The text alone does not describe
what it is about
- Normally crisis center is for the rape
or something but most people
wouldn't get it.
- I would guess that it's a place for
emergency and from the picture,
would guess for abuse?
- Seems like a hotline for someone in
crisis
Burmese
3 3

11. Conclusion for 5 signs in Maesot
Burmese - no mistake
- all seems fine
English - no serious mistake
- some contains too short message
- receivers have to guess from the
picture instead of the message