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`Translation Certification
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`Statement concerning certain characteristics of the Japanese language.
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`We, Apex Translations, Inc., a professional translation company, certified in accordance with ISO
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`9001-2008 and EN 15038-2006, hereby certify that the Japanese language does not make a
`grammatical distinction in nouns between indefinite and definite articles. It is therefore often not
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`possible to clearly determine whether an object is referred to in the sense of “a" or “the”, unless
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`additional context is provided that would permit these distinctions.
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`In the Japanese Patent No. 04-71222 by Jinbo et al. (project no. 38241), a specific Japanese
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`sentence is succeptibie to the following two translations:
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`“Then substrate 11 is aligned with a mask which has been mounted in the projection exposure
`apparatus.”
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`Or:
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`“Then substrate 11 is aligned with the mask which has been mounted in the projection exposure
`apparatus.”
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`Both translations can be considered correct translations of the Japanese text, since the Japanese
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`text provides no additional context that would suggest otherwise.
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