TONT 42123 别让市场营销人员对幻灯片胡来

重名什么的，不存在的。

原文链接：https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031017-00/?p=42123

It’s PDC season, so I thought I’d relate an anecdote about a conference from many years ago.

又到了PDC（Professional Developers Conference，微软专业开发者大会）季了，我想提一提许多年前的一则轶事。

I forget which conference it was, maybe GCDC 1996, we were all busy preparing our presentations and submitted them to the Microsoft conference representatives so they could apply the standard template, clean them up, print out copies to go into the handouts, all that stuff.

忘记具体是哪一届大会了，大概是1996年的GCDC吧，所有人都在紧张地准备我们的幻灯片，然后把它提交给微软的会议代表，他们会做些把幻灯片套用上标准模板，做些清理，然后印制副本以备分发之类的事情。

What about that “clean them up” step?

那么『做些清理』这一步都要做些什么呢？

We didn’t realize what “clean them up” meant until we showed up at the conference and looked at the handouts.

一开始我们也不清楚，直到来到会议现场看到分发的副本才明白。

Part of “cleaning up” was inserting “®” and “™” symbols as necessary. Which meant that they also took every occurrence of the abbreviation “VB” and changed it to “Microsoft Visual Basic®”. They even did this to the presentation on vertex buffers. The abbreviation for vertex buffers is also “VB”.

『做些清理』中的一部分是指在必要的地方添加 ® 和 ™ 标志，而对我们而言，他们把幻灯片中所有的缩写『VB』都替换成了『Microsoft Visual Basic®』，连顶点缓冲器也给替换了，因为顶点缓冲器（vertex buffers）的缩写也是『VB』。

You can imagine what this did to the presentation on vertex buffers.

可以想象一下现在有关顶点缓冲器的幻灯片都变成了什么样子。