On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:49:06 -0400, "JANA" put finger to keyboard and composed:
I'd spend a little cash and hire a professional, or at least someone who is a fluent native speaker. I wouldn't trash the reputation of my business by producing incomprehensible documentation.
None of this was ever in question.
BTW, I am not monolingual, but I wouldn't dream of attempting to write a technical document in my mother tongue. If I did, I have no doubt it would be full of clangers.
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On 2 Jun 2005 09:11:22 +1000, Parmin put finger to keyboard and composed:
Last year I paid AU$2000 for a treadmill and got one lousy scrap of photocopied paper ... with instructions for a different machine.
I have a bench drill with the word "MACHWERY" on the name plate, ie the IN has become a W, probably because of bad handwriting. The manufacturer couldn't be bothered to get his own name right.
- Franc Zabkar
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 00:35:03 +0000 (UTC), Wing Fong Wong put finger to keyboard and composed:
There is no need to find someone to *write* the manual, only to *proof read* it. The labour cost for the former would be low, as it would be done within the PRC.
- Franc Zabkar
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Relative to total design, manufacturing and marketing costs, the cost to proofread a manual is infinitesimal.
Like I said, it's sheer laziness. Nothing else.
Not good enough to write manuals......so I don't.
On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:49:27 GMT, "Craig Hart" put finger to keyboard and composed:
The manual does not appear to have any spelling errors. Does that rate a mention?
- Franc Zabkar
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and
God bless the Microsoft spell checker?
NOn Thu, 02 Jun 2005 18:09:57 GMT, "NSM" put finger to keyboard and composed:
Babelfish doesn't need a spell checker. ;-)
- Franc Zabkar
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