On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:44:46 -0400, ~db~® <deepblack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
sayd the following:
>On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:50:39 -0400, Robert Blass
><blame@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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