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Bloopers

"It's the difference between cutting out noise with a meat axe or a scalpel"

We often run across some gems like this! If only these companies had contacted Eye for Image, blunders like this one might have been avoided.

European companies sometimes make mistakes in their English-language advertisements and marketing texts, simply because they don’t use native-English writers.

Here are some gems we've run across

This is not feasible with a DVB-RCC (QPSK OOB) STB.
(GOING FOR ACRONYMS IN STYLE)

Frequently updating documents ensures that they are always up-to-date.
(OH, REALLY!)

It's the difference between cutting out noise with a meat axe or a scalpel.
(OUCH!)

The heartrending sea cow, plods its way through the depths in harmony with some of the densest tanker traffic in the world.
(I'M NOT CONVINCED)

Advanced L2 flow-scheduling algorithms to support real-time flows with delay/delay-jitter bounds on the time-slotted multiple access upstream channel.
(TECHSPEAK!)

If only they had contacted Eye for Image, the blunders above might have been avoided.

 



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