Saturday, March 04, 2006

Windows' Japanese edition uses haiku error messages. NOT.

"Rather than offering the cryptic error messages Windows displays for English readers, Japanese editions use calming haiku poems, such as this one (our favorite):

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.


Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.


and

Everything is gone;
Your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?


"

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116572,pg,2,00.asp

FYI : Japanese Haiku poems are written in 5-7-5 syllable constructions.

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