I am not the only one who has noticed the need that today’s manufacturers feel to place warning labels on everything. This is common (annoying) knowledge, and probably aimed at avoiding lawsuits.
But may I say that they might not need so many warning labels if they’d get some native English speakers to write their instruction manuals?
Please understand. I know some very nice people whose first language is not English. I’m not getting onto them at all. But these instruction manuals make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.
The sentence structure is enough to make me cringe. Apparently Yoda got a job writing microwave oven manuals, ’cause see Star Wars you must before understand them you can.
And to top that, the actual words they use half the time have nothing to do with the actual product or its use.
Given this information, I have narrowed down the culprits: clearly the proprietors of icanhascheezburger.com are writing our small appliance manuals. This must be stopped.
To anyone who wants to argue this point, I have just one thing to say…
Thank you.
