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

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

You must admit "Kytke ja käytä" has a nice ring to it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

The nicest word was in the Turkish sentence relating to the HD's guarantee. I think "ürününüzü" is some form of the word for "product".

(edited because I cocked up the html first time)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

ürününüzü

I seem to recall they played at Monsters of Rock back in '88.

[zotz]

That's astounding.