The Register Collecting Bad Doc Excerpts

Subject: The Register Collecting Bad Doc Excerpts
From: Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:52:50 +1100

IT news site The Register has posted some
examples of incomprehensible English in the
doc for a USB drive, and has asked readers
to send in their own examples:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/09/user_manual_folliws/

As they say:

"We hasten to add that our own personal language-
translation skills would leave us helpless in China,
Singapore, or Middle-Earth, but it does seem in this
global economy the services of a proofreader might
rate a bit higher on a manufacturer's priority list.

-- Janice

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