Scott Nelson wrote:
>
> Oh yes, the Japanese are famous for believing that their English is BETTER
> than
> American English. Native speakers who go to Japan to teach often find students
> refuse correction because they insist they were taught correctly in school.
>
> We tried to convince the Japanese (in the Olympus Service Dept., Woodbury)
> in the early 80s that service manuals (allegedly in english already) HAD to
> be re-written into english that Americans would fully understand.
>
The mechanic that worked on my 240Z said the maintenance manuals were
written in Japlish. Seems to be an accurate description of the
language.
Jerry Liles
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