February 27, 2008
I recently got a promo USB drive at work and the instructions were hilarious. Someone in China did not speak English too well, but they gave it their best shot. "Driver in stallion" = "Driver installation". And about a hundred other grammatical or spelling errors. This kind of stuff cracks me up. I love finding errors on restaurant menus. Check it out (pdf).
Posted by megabeth at February 27, 2008 01:42 PM
And yet we fear they're going to take over the world.
I'm sure you've had plenty of other examples of warped English in instructions but I have to pass along one that became part of my family's regular vocabulary. We bought a folding step stool which had elaborate instructions on how to open and close it. The final line was "OK. Now you are success."
Posted by: BlogDog at February 29, 2008 07:35 AM
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