Re: The Register Collecting Bad Doc Excerpts

Subject: Re: The Register Collecting Bad Doc Excerpts
From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:48:26 -0800

On 1/10/2010 8:52 PM, Janice Gelb wrote:
> 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/
>

"and then there appeared a direction telling that the USB Mass storage
device can now be safely remved ."

How very biblical-sounding and typographically errorfied. I love all
the device "whopping" that occurs in this documentation. Sometimes, I
would love to "whop" a device, especially when it does not work properly.

Lauren


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