Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!glacier!oliveb!hplabs!qantel!lll-lcc!lll-crg!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Japanese R/Ls
Message-ID: <910@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 09:05:50 EST
Article-I.D.: kitty.910
Posted: Tue Mar 25 09:05:50 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Apr-86 04:50:23 EST
References: <821@cylixd.UUCP> <342@tesla.UUCP> <2322@aecom.UUCP> <401@chinet.UUCP> <275@noscvax.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 19
Summary: Japanese misspellings can be funny

In article <275@noscvax.UUCP>, hammond@noscvax.UUCP (John A. Hammond) writes:
> .. The hardware manual for my Sanyo MBC1100 (CP/M micro) talks
> about a "flame" error bit in the CONS status byte .. I keep
> an extinguisher handy!

	About 12 years ago, my company had an OKI AC-250 PABX, which was an
early electromechanical switch.  Since OKI had just entered the U.S. telephone
interconnect market, their documentation was obviously hastily put together and
extremely poor.  They also had technical writers and draftsmen who obviously
had a poor command of the English language.
	As an example, in one whole manual what should have been the word
``trunk'' was misspelled ``frunk'' in EVERY instance!

==>  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York        <==
==>  UUCP    {decvax|dual|rocksanne|rocksvax|watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry  <==
==>  VOICE   716/688-1231                {rice|shell}!baylor!/             <==
==>  FAX     716/741-9635 {G1, G2, G3 modes}    duke!ethos!/               <==
==>                                               seismo!/                 <==
==>  "Have you hugged your cat today?"           ihnp4!/                   <==