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Lost in translation.(selling it: Goofs / Glitches / Gotchas)(Brief article)
FROM A VISOR A California reader was given this cap while sightseeing with a busload of tourists in the Canadian Rockies. As for interpreting the instructions? "Good luck!" he says.
It's not news that foreign-made merchandise has spread throughout the U.S marketplace. What amazes, amuses--and confuses-readers are the translated instructions and warnings that can be found on it. These words beg to be ...
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