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I bought some new gaming headphones in the Amazon Prime Day sale, and was just installing them.
The manual is titled "the Use of Guideness" which ... appeals in some strange way ... 
Unfortunately, the English doesn't get much better on the inside ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I deal with this all the time with documentation and source code comments because I work with a lot of chinese IP. There's a certain method to the madness. Read enough of it and it starts to make sense.
Real programmers use butterflies
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What do you mean by IP ? intellectual property ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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yeah
Real programmers use butterflies
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Don't Panic.
FTFY 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's probably safe to say they are just using Google Translate rather than an actual interpreter. The former does fairly well on single and double words but not so much on sentences and paragraphs.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I think this is probably their revenge for the crappy translations we do on our stuff for them. I have products translated into French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Chinese Simplified. Most of our customers outside the U.S. use the product in English because our translations aren't coherent. We use an outside company for doing localization. Unfortunately the workflow for this process doesn't include having the translators learn (or even see) the product. This means they basically do word and phrase substitution without any context. The end result is humorous in the best case.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I know! When I had to include translated versions, I got our international distributors to translate them: I sent them a (very long) list of all the English screens they could get (this was in the 2 line x 32 character display days) and asked them to translate to the local language. (Along with an apology for not being able to write Persian, Japanese, Australian, ...)
Worked quite well, since they understood the language and the environment the equipment was going to be sold into. Except for one Indian distributor who got quite snotty about the whole idea.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Our one success story in this arena is our Japanese translations. The reason for that is our field service teams in Japan insisted on vetting and editing our language translations. These folks know the product and the customer, and they know the appropriate vocabulary.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is cheese that isn't yours Nacho Cheese?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Apparently he camembert from one day to the next.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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His cheese is full of holes.
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How do you even find these things!?
The most recent was from 2012 and the oldest goes back to 2002, 19 years ago! 
Like anyone cares, much less remembers, this was posted before.
Most of us probably weren't even around at that time (certainly not in 2002).
And yet here you are pointing out that someone, sometime, posted this joke before.
Same for my post below, although that was admittedly posted a lot more recent, early last year.
Are you the repost police? 
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He downloads EVERYTHING! 
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You 100% should have change the title of your post to "Nacho Joke"
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That's a Gouda one
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Let's Brie realistic. Depend on Chedder or not you give Edam.
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...Just gorges?
I'll show myself out.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'll show myself out.
I think it's best for everyone's sanity if you are escorted out.
Just to be sure you can't subject us to something like that again 
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People will take a rim view of that statement.
I'll also get my coat
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Mother Earth: You'll pay for that crack, sonny!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Don't The Netherlands have anti-pollution laws? I'm sure that stinker runs afoul of most of them!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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