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To: Physicist

So-called international, all-language buttons drive me crazy. Your computer, your snowblower, your lawnmower, your weedwhacker, your x-ray machine. None of them have buttons that say "on" or "off" any more, because that might confuse a Hispanic and it would mean that you would have to put different buttons on your machines if you sell them in different countries.

All very well, but if you need to hit a button in a hurry, there's no instinctive recognition which one is which. Labeling them "On" and "Off" might seem to make more sense, but evidently that would cost export manufacturers more, and offend the language police.


15 posted on 03/20/2006 8:47:10 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
So-called international, all-language buttons drive me crazy. Your computer, your snowblower, your lawnmower, your weedwhacker, your x-ray machine. None of them have buttons that say "on" or "off" any more, ............................

All very well, but if you need to hit a button in a hurry, there's no instinctive recognition which one is which..............

Ain't that the truth.

All those labels are printed in a language foreign to everyone.

40 posted on 03/21/2006 4:41:19 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (REAL men vote Republican)
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