On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:50:39 -0400, Robert Blass
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> wrote:
>People who write manuals never buy the products.
>
They are also very rarely native speakers of
Standard American English. Many years ago, I
checked out on the first of the digitally
controlled television production suites available
in this country (USA). It was a Panasonic product
and of excellent quality, but the training
materials and operating manuals were so poorly
translated into English, that they could've been
written by the Jerry Lewis character in "The
Geisha Boy"! We finally photocopied and blew up
the diagrams, disregarded the rest of the printed
matter and doped it all out by trial and (a heck
of a lot of) error. Due to popular outcry, the
manuals were eventually rewritten, but the early
editions were a mess.
~db~®
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