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CowperKettle

16:59

Q: Generic name of any kind of unit inside the company

I'm translating a document template, to be filled out later for specific purposes. It has a table in the beginning which indicates who exactly produced a particular document. In the first line of the table, we have Подразделение: наименование "Подразделение" is literally "subdivisio...

Yes, business unit is the typical term in corporate America (speaking as a corporate American drone: #44173). — Dan Bron 33 secs ago

ColleenV

17:27

@CowperKettle businessdictionary.com/definition/business-unit.html "A logical element or segment of a company (such as accounting, production, marketing) representing a specific business function, and a definite place on the organizational chart, under the domain of a manager. Also called department, division, or a functional area."

CowperKettle

18:24

@ColleenV thank you!

If an analytical procedure was developed at a certain business unit, how might I call it later in the document? It is called "подразделение разработчика" (Developer business unit) in Russian in the document I'm translating. I wonder if this would be understood by English-language readers, "Developer business unit".

ColleenV

19:17

@CowperKettle The problem with "developer" is that it is most commonly used to mean someone who develops software. I will have to think about it

If it is a very formal document you could maybe say "the originating business unit", but it would depend on the context

Eh, I don't really like "originating". I would probably just say "the unit that developed the procedure"

CowperKettle

19:34

@ColleenV Thank you, Colleen!

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CowperKettle

21:11

Q: Letter "s" in a shape of a sail

Sometimes in archaic books and in different scrolls, books and texts in old games I meet the letter "s" resembling a sail (wikipedia article here calls it the cursive form). Is it still used in PDE and do people write it this way? Is it much less popular than the standard shape?