
21 Sep
2008
21 Sep
'08
5:19 p.m.
I read from many reviews and shootouts that cell phones sold in Japan are more diverse, advanced, and user-friendly than cell phones sold in the US. So I bought one, but to my dismay, both the offline manual and the on-screen menu are line noise. Then I found a web dictionary to translate them word-for-word. The result is still unparsible, like "water submerge in don't ever". Are we supposed to be human beings or are we supposed to be all Master Yoda's? Why and how the whole Japanese population put up with this epic fail is beyond me. Everyone should use exclusively ancient Egyptian iconography. It is the only universally readable language.