I don't know why sometimes I get frightened

[venta]

After the recent HD disaster, I bought two new disks. If you're interested, I bought one of these for work and a portable one[*] which can live at home and come into work occasionally to get backed up.

Being a USB HD, it doesn't need much in the way of instructions. The first page is titled "Plug-and-Play Setup for Windows and Mac OS X". Fair enough.

The next page is "Installation Plug & Play pour Windows et Mac", then "Installazione plug & play in Windows e Mac". We go on... "Plug & Play-Einstellung fü Windows und Mac", Insalación plug and play para Windows y Mac", Instalacja plug-and-play w systemach Windows i Mac". You get the general idea. Even the Greek and Russian (which I don't have the inclincation to find all the html entities to type out) include the phrase "plug and play" in Latin characters.

Then we reach Finnish, the notorious problem child of the Scandinavian languages. "Kytke ja käytä -asennus Windows- ja Mac OS X -kättöjärjestelmille.

Just who let that language into Europe anyway ?

[*] Which actually also came from Overclockers, but they now seem to have stopped stocking it.

Comments

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I blame the Hungarians.

[uitlander.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

I was about to say something very similar. And might also remind our learned colleague that Finno-Ugric (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages) predates the Indo-European languages... now that she's dabbling in our domain I consider that level of pedantry fair game ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

In my defence, one of my colleagues agreed that Finnish's handling of technical terms differently to the rest of Europe is silly and they should just stop it.

And she's Finnish :)