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From: decot@cwruecmp.UUCP (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.nlang
Subject: Re: Interesting Instructions
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 22:58:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 22:58:53 1983
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I have always been amused by poor translations from one language into another.
One of my friends went into uncontrollable and interminable hysterics after
reading the instructions on a video game by Namco.  I believe it is possible
to detect the country of origin of bad translations by examining the particular
peculiarities that seem to occur regularly.  Was the "Snake Cube" produced in
Japan?

When I asked my Dad (not a Japanner) how to say goodbye in Japanese (this was
some time ago when I was younger and less old), he said, "Say onara."  So
the next week in school I said "Onara" to one of my Japanese classmates and
practically got hit.  If you don't know why, ask a person who understands what
"onara" means (they might not tell you in mixed company).

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