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An apocryphal story on commercial translation for aircraft maintenance manuals stated how aircraft engineers were instructed to "take out the broken object and
by princeofwands 8y ago
An apocryphal story on commercial translation for aircraft maintenance manuals stated how aircraft engineers were instructed to "take out the broken object and place it back in". The original sentence was "to replace the broken object".
- dsr_ 8y agoParticularly bad: some objects will be fixed by removing them from a socket and then being put back in. Loose connections, wrong orientation, dirty contacts...