Posted on 05/21/2019 12:21:27 PM PDT by mowowie
So here i am putting together a Char-Broil portable gas grill that came with three seperate instruction manuals..
I live in a small place with a VERY small deck atop a spiral staircase that takes 22 spiral steps down then 22 back up.
I’m on my 3rd Weber Smokey Joe.....a mini-Weber but sometimes dealing with the charcoal can be a PITA with the steps and all.
I LOVE the Smokey Joe BTW.
I figured the 30 dollar gas char-broil will be ok for dogs and burgers etc.
Got good reviews.
Plenty of sweet mini-grills on amazon though..
My $100 Char Broil cooks just as well as a Weber, and I can get three of them over the years for under the cost of one Weber
> I remember it being one of two required languages in school. again a complete waste of time in my opinion. <
LOL. It was the same at my school, back in the 60’s. It was either Spanish or French. Taking Spanish, that made some sense to me. But French? Why?
Anyhow, a school district near me recently added Chinese as a language choice. Good move on their part.
Just remember that like condoms (”letters”), the English call them French grills, and the French call them English grills.
If you want to sell your product in Canada
it’s a legal requirement that you include
labeling and instructions in French.
Exactly right.
My Father made a very good living translating for the Canadian product market.
I studied French all the way through high-school.
Then I got out into the world and realized,
nobody WANTS to talk to those people.
Char Broil grill covers fit a lot better than the generic ones that say they’ll fit.
Products going to Canada from the US in both English and French was long before NAFTA.
i don’t think they grill much, tho.
the company is selling in Canada or possibly France When we shoppe din Franc with our friends many things had a French and English label and of course canada requires it. If the company doesn’t have the market, they will stop doing it. Stop being so ethnocentric.
My friend’s son spent a college semester studying in Denmark.
He stayed with a Danish host family. The father of the family told him “Don’t waste any time trying to learn Danish. Only five million people speak it. And most of us speak English anyway”.
Quebec...
I was going to post that.
Undoubtedly true.
I ALWAYS see stuff printed in French, including grocery packages. And yes, it’s because they ship the same stuff to Canada. As it has been since I was a kid, living about 300 miles closer to Canada (but still 500 miles away).
Quebec, eh? There are a lot of francophones in Canada and they are more prosperous than Hispanics, just not as numerous. They have been up there since the sixteen hundreds.
You didn’t pay anything for that book, zero, nada. The manufacturer determined that his total production and distribution costs were lower if he produced units with three instruction manuals rather than just one. These are economies of scale. You were burdened with the inconvenience of disposing of the unwanted foreign language manuals.
I have found that studying a foreign language helps me to better use proper English grammar.
Quebec
In fact one of the demands that refugees make in those countries is for the government to have more services in English.
Ironic.
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