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These instructions on a 110v USB combo outlet. You can always tell when English is not the first language of the person writing directions.

Easy to install: 1: Stripping the thermoplastic insulation Layer into the Trunking (copper part), 2: Tighten the screws clockwise. Warning: Don’t tighten the screws counterclockwise., this is the wrong operation.

 

You'd be surprised how simplistic you have to explain things to some people sometimes. It takes all kinds to make the world go round


Keith

 

Hi,

I recently had a interview for a technical writer position for military manuals. They said they had to be wrote for a 8th grader level.

Regards,

 

They forgot to tell which end of the screwdriver to hold.

 

Is this a joke?

 

Did you get the job??

 

Hi again,

Nope not a joke, why do you think the military also did away with manual transmissions in vehicles, so much for being able to take a enemy's vehicle but that's another debate.

No didn't get the job, I'm actually in engineering, but hit that age/education roadblock so applying for anything close.

Should be starting a design position next week just waiting on paperwork.

Regards,

 

Four years ago, I couldn’t spell injuneer, and now I are one.

 

Did you ever hear someone say ‘ unloosen ‘ ?
When I heard someone say ‘unloosen’ ,
I wondered which way is unloosen..,

 

I was told that newspapers write at the grade 4 level..

 

Only 14% of Americans can read at a level above 8th grade. Scary.

 

At work we have a handle to turn to adjust for the box height on a piece of packaging equipment. It is labeled "to raise turn handle clockwise", pretty simple huh? Not for some of my co-workers.

 

My kids can read an analog clock (and both often wear analog watches!) but many of their classmates can’t. All we have to do to lock young people out of the revolution is use analog clocks, cursive writing and manual transmissions! (Maybe memorize phone numbers and do math on paper).
Patrick

 

I have been a national newspapers copy editor for 38 years, in three countries, and a kid reporter before that.

Not true, but certain downmarket tabloids do emphasise ''PLAIN'' English.

 

Wonder what would happen if you tightened them counterclockwise? You might be there for a while.

 

My cousin "unthaws" things she gets out of the freezer. We have been making fun of her about it for years but she just can't stop saying it.

 

unthaw(Verb)

To thaw out, to unfreeze; to become soft (of something which had been frozen).

You can stop making fun of her now

 

Wife and other Wisco family of hers say "boughten".

 

I will NOT stop making fun of her. In my world if you unthaw something you would be freezing it.

I reject your reality and replace it with my own.