At 14:55 22-03-01 -0700, you wrote:
>Jeffrey Miller wrote:
> > speaking of which... someone took all my scotch tape and while I was at
> > lunch used it to spell out "all your tape are belong to us!" on my cube
> > wall.
> >
> > funny
> >
> > -j-
>
>Ah! Cats is come!
>
>Quick, move 'Zig' for great justice.
>
>Kevin Street
>- Won't this sound annoying in three months?
>
Or three minutes? ;-)
Reminds me of the early days (OK, the late 1970s) when things like
calculators, digital watches, and other electronic gear came mostly from
Japanese manufacturers, and the instruction sheet or manual that came with
the item had clearly been translated by someone to whom English was not a
native tongue. In fact, I frequently suspected that it must have been done
by someone who actually knew _no_ English but who simply looked up Japanese
words in a Japanese-English dictionary and wrote down the translated words
in the order they would appear in Japanese. Example: "The battery is
needed for operation of this."
-- Ronn! :)
