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Old 08-16-2010, 07:17 PM   #194
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Originally Posted by apocalipstic View Post
None of their directioons seem to be written by a native English speaker of any kind. I suspect they are translated from the original Chinese by Swedes using an on line translating service.
I bought an electric scooter one time whose directions warned me to, "Beware the long slope." I finally figured out it was warning me that it didn't have enough power to make it up a steep hill, which the direction writers explained as a "natural phenomenon".
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