Cunning linguistics page 2
This section documents not only cases of Engrish
but also where a spot of proof-reading would have gone down a treat. I cannot understand Engrish occurring in large companies as surely someone at one of the offices must speak English or know someone who does? Especially American companies, although I have my doubts.
I think Photoshop 5 was trying to tell me something:
I think.
From the Opera 6.03 SMI:
Apple, for some reason, never differentiated between checkbox menu items (tick) and radio button menu items (bullet), which leads to confusion as to whether you can tick more than one of a set of items at once. Here, you can tick all the available languages at the same time, yet you only ever seen English text in the dialog. Weird. It’s also a case of the relative obscurity of a dialog box without a proper title bar!
The following dialog box shows selection of your default software install language in EPOC:
Problem is, which Norwegian language do they mean? Bokmål, or Nynorsk? At least Norwegian is shown – Apple’s former list of locales omitted Norway entirely, and Canada.