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One comment too much

by cimddwc · 2009-03-26

No, not here in the blog, but instead:

The pink box contains a note that a word in the yellow box has been replaced with a shorter one.

Don’t think this annotation was supposed to be printed, was it?

(LTB Enten-Edition 24, p.190, Germany)

Are Two Really Better Than Three?

by cimddwc · 2009-03-24

Translation: “…Intel used the catchy argument: “Two are better than three”: The Nehalem CPU’s memory controler has three memory channels…”

Neither Intel nor the c’t could have meant it like the c’t wrote in a paragraph about Intel’s new Nehalem CPUs…

(c’t 7/2009, Germany)

What’s the weight of the packaging?

by cimddwc · 2009-02-27

Translation: “Product size and/or weight” in first black line and “Shipping weight” (product+packaging) in second.

Which do you want – an extremely heavy packaging or one with negative weight?

(Two third-party’s offers on Amazon.de in Feb 2009)

Phone number telepathy?

by cimddwc · 2009-02-07

If that’s supposed to be a kind of aptitude test, it’s quite a high barrier:

Translation: Do you want to learn how to heal, too? Offering reiki introductions in all levels. Tel.

Spiritual healing for telepaths? It wasn’t me who removed the phone number for privacy reasons, it was missing already in the newspaper…

(Bayrisches Taferl 06/2009)

Only on Wednesdays

by cimddwc · 2009-01-28

Translation: Your voucher code: … This voucher is until Wednesday: …

Thanks for the high number of vouchers recently, CDWOW – on top of your prices being quite good already. However, you should work on your mail templates, because (1) there’s a verb missing and (2) none of these days are Wednesdays…

(CDWOW mails Dec/Jan 08/09)

But there actually is some variety:

Translation: For only 8 hours 2€ discount on everything at CDWOW – only from 13-19h (1pm–7pm), click here

Now I don’t mind your time-limited discount campaigns at all, dear CDWOW, but you should be a little more careful when creating and advertising them. How long does this campaign actually last?

(CDWOW mail Dec.2008)