The company I work for has it's main engineering and development staff overseas. They produce documentation for the products in their own language then use some cheap thing like babel fish or Google translate to convert it to half assed English. Then it gets handed to me to change it in to fully assed English.
This is the section I'm working on right now. I'm getting so frustrated trying to make sense of it that I want to smash my computer.
The display option let you to decide the event logs you want to view.
• Period: Which period you want to view the event logs.
Configuration options: [All][A day][A week][A month][A year]
• Coverage: The coverage depends on the day you click on Calendar icon and period you selected to show which dates event logs occurred will be displayed.
• Time: The time event logs occurred. Decide what time event logs occurred will be displayed.
• Weekday: The weekday event logs occurred. Decide which weekday event logs occurred will be displayed.
Configuration options: [Sunday][Monday][Tuesday][Wednesday][Thursday][Friday][Saturday]
• Severity: The event logs severity level. Decide which severity event log will be showed. And you also can decide which event logs will be displayed by selecting one of the events in the combo box.
Configuration options: [Severe][Warning][Information]
I seem to remember that the definition of 'tech manual' is 24 pages of Korean limericks printed upside down.
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