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Dance Dance Revolution (for the uneducated) is a musical computer game where you must step in time to beat of music with 4 different types of step. These are up, down, left and right steps.
To play it properly you need a dancing mat, these can be bought from around the country.
Dance Dance Revolution is also a Japanese game, and as such it isn't surprising that the instructions that come with the dance mats are complete nonsense, however at the same time, they are highly amusing.

Translations of anything often come across sounding wrong, but any item instructional manual that starts off with "Hot Dance Instruction" is surely worth reading by anyone.
Below is the first page of nonsense, the first phrase here is the most informative "Stop immediately if there is abnormal phenomenon in your foot, waist and back when using it."
Wow, it's as if I've bought a magic carpet instead of a dancing mat. "I'd like an abnormal phenomenon please!"

The warnings continue onto the second side, this side is probably even better than the first.

A few of my favourite instructions on this page include "Young children must be guided to use it or need parents and teaches to accompany, in case to be tumbled by it" and "High technology product, do not apart, separate or fix it anyway. Or the damage can not be guaranteed".
Which are classic examples of how sentence compression techniques simply don't work.

"This product is made for indoor games only. Do not use it outdoors or in other occasion" is another good one.
The grammar almost makes sense. But I'm interested in "other occasion"
Does there exist any other type of doors besides outdoors and indoors, middoors perhaps?

But my favourite of all has to be "If this product can't work well, please connect with your supplier directly" It's definitely an interesting way of complaining about something, Japan really is an advanced place these days. Gone are the days of shops, simply connect directly to your supplier to solve your quarrels.

However, it's probably quite obvious to anyone what the instructions are trying to explain.
But why not get someone to take a moment to rewrite it. I'm crap at writing, but even I could rewrite that to make more sense in 10 or so minutes, and for free. It would save them printing off a few thousand copies of nonsense.
Ah well, it gave me a laugh anyway.

 

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