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What should an error dialog not look like?

How about this:

But it sure made me laugh - wonder if that was the intent?

Published Friday, December 17, 2004 7:59 PM by nihitk

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# re: What should an error dialog not look like? @ Friday, December 17, 2004 10:53 PM

Each language has its own strangeness when translated to english. A russian developer on my team used to have "Well done action" debug dialogs popping up everywhere in his UIs. Indian developers have a tendency for "Are You Surely" prompts. The list goes on and on...

Addy Santo

# re: What should an error dialog not look like? @ Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:22 PM

Wow, that is a really bad error message! Someone does not know English as well as they think they do (or they though an autotranslator would be all they needed?).

Michael Kaplan

# re: What should an error dialog not look like? @ Monday, December 20, 2004 7:12 AM

Ah...to see the dialog equivalent of "Crick here" hyperlinks. It is truly funny to see what a mangled job some people do with the English language but then again, I'd hate to see what my Finnish would look like. :)

David O'Hara

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