Comments on: A parent’s night before Christmas http://brewerspub.com/2008/12/21/a-parents-night-before-christmas/ Your online local pub Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:05:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Stephen G. Barone http://brewerspub.com/2008/12/21/a-parents-night-before-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Stephen G. Barone Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:03:29 +0000 http://brewerspub.com/?p=1294#comment-71 This situation is often aggravated by a manufacturer’s quest to present instructions in every applicable language while simultaneously incurring as little paper and printing costs as possible. The result is usually an enigma of pages smeared with teeny-weenie type. You’re reading English one moment, Spanish the next, and then suddenly reliving your high-school French classes. This virtually guarantees that any particular person is going to get very little instruction in any particular vernacular. And of that, much of it will be tort-driven safety imperatives: “Caution! Do not use to circumcise!”—roughly translated from the Hebrew section of the instructions for my hedge trimmer. Read more at www.halfjoking.net This situation is often aggravated by a manufacturer’s quest to present instructions in every applicable language while simultaneously incurring as little paper and printing costs as possible. The result is usually an enigma of pages smeared with teeny-weenie type. You’re reading English one moment, Spanish the next, and then suddenly reliving your high-school French classes.

This virtually guarantees that any particular person is going to get very little instruction in any particular vernacular. And of that, much of it will be tort-driven safety imperatives: “Caution! Do not use to circumcise!”—roughly translated from the Hebrew section of the instructions for my hedge trimmer.

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