Re: The Register Collecting Bad Doc Excerpts

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

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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