Speaking of language support...

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 02:50:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 18:10 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> I stand corrected. You have reminded me of some of the strange
> translations of tech manuals written in other languages into
> English. I especially like the earth wire. (Ground wire.)

That's not a translation problem. It's a difference of usage between US
and the UK English (like lift-elevator, tap-faucet, crisps-chips, and so
on ad nauseam). Two countries divided by a common language.

poc




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