About user manuals !!

RockLee

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read this and be prepared to be amazed :p especially with this :
Touching Italians is fine, but you must never, ever tell them how to use a product. You merely suggest what they might consider doing with it, according to Carmella Esposito, a former United Nations translator who now works as a freelance technical support consultant.

"We have noticed that if a manual said, 'Do not ever do this,' we would then get many calls from people who had broken their machines by doing just that," Esposito said. "They read the documentation and took offense to its tone so they had an argument with the product."

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Tough stuff... :D
"There was a U.S. software company that developed a WAN (wide area network) product and tried to sell it in Japan," Adams said. "On the packaging, there was a flowing stream of text: 'WAN WAN WAN WAN.' Unfortunately, in Japan 'WAN WAN' is the sound a dog makes, similar to "bow wow" in the United States. No one would buy a serious product that advertised itself by barking at you. The boxes were shipped back to the States."
 
yeah, japanese have all kinds of things like that !! so it get's a lot harder to find something appropriate ☝
 
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