Re: Manual from Hell

On 29 Jun 2006 18:45:50 -0700, Andrew VK3BFA <ablight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mm, bit of xenophobia here. Yes, to a native English speaker, its
hilarious , but can you understand it? -

Sure. That also isn't the point. If they want to sell their crap over
here, they can at least get someone to translate something important,
who knows what the heck they're doing.

as someone who has a huge
collection of manuals for my electronic test equipment and other stuff,
the ONLY decent, well written ones are for equipment costing (new)
thousands of dollars....you get what you pay for. And REAL service
manuals cost REAL money. The rest are VERY basic - grammatically
correct, but containing no more useful information than the posted
example. They spent their money on setting up the factory and making
the equipment, not on getting a university graduate with an engineering
AND technical writing background........its very rare to find such a
person at ANY price.....

Oh bull***. You don't need a technical writer to say "Unplug this
device before working on the internal parts". And the second and third
pane? I honestly don't have a clue what the fark they're warning me not
to do. And I'm sorry, but I don't get much inspiration from "never pres
sure power cord by clog then ambroin broken cause short or spark."
Makes me suspect their engineers are equally as careless if they don't
even make sure their translations have actual words in them.

Nothing annoys me worse than buying something that, as built, can't
work. Seeing something like this will make me suspect that this product
is made to be sold, not to be used.

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