| ??? 05/20/06 00:59 Read: times |
#116723 - Re: 'Jap-ish' Responding to: ???'s previous message |
I once worked with a certain Japanese microcontroller.
The manuals were written in Japanese, then translated into English by Germans! Unsurprisingly, they were dreadful! :-( If I recall, these 'Jap-ish' texts were the 'only' technical documents where it was always easier to just 'look at the diagrams' and try to figure out the rest yourself. They were like no other document - where the content of every paragraph began 'somewhere in the middle' then went completely random from there. My first experience with 'Jap-ish' came over ten years ago (ie: when I started my engineering career), when I was forced off a commissioning site by an angry client who could not understand why I couldn't just 'Read the f####n manual'! Valentin |
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| grrrr- fricking programmers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| don't you know | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| How did you choose him? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| other languages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| source docs? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| specs | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ever tried Babelfish...? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hils konen fra mig | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hils familie fra mig | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| taking it off-line | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Translation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Re: 'Jap-ish' | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "Light on -Dark on" translation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You're not alone ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Richard we do agree | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I guess .. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh wait ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "wow, you have more than 256k memory on | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I'm not sure it's ATMEL, but ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| it is | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Just like that. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| American Academia | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Tenure ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Well, it's kind-of like that | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| now the future is located in France | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| EEEEEK!!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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