Just purusing the Model Railroader for Sept. 2010 and happened to look at the ad for ExactRail advertising the PS Waffle Box car, and noticed the wording for the first time. “From the way we release to our passion for freight cars, ExactRail is like no other. The results are yours to enjoy.”
Now in my part of America, no one talks like that. My question is has ExactRail completely turned their company over to a foreign company? It makes me wonder, also makes me not to purchase their products.
This sounds more like an edit job trying to fit a lot of thoughts into few words, probably to fit the ad space or avoid overloading it with written text that will get ignored.
Seriously? This would cause you to boycott the company? You’ve got to be kidding.
There’s nothing wrong with that sentence; it’s totally grammatically correct, and not that unusual for ad copy. It’s a little more formal than casual conversation, that’s all.
Assemble the A part against into the part of slot B tab.
Remember to first to apply the glue on a screw G to hold notch.
So it goes with foreign interpretations of the USA English language for instructions! They COULD have been taken over by a foreign company, could have a foreign writer who is not “English sufficient”, or what ever! I have found many instructions to be very humorous over the years for all things “some assembly required” from foreign countries!
I actually found nothing objectionable in the phrase you presented.
And as mentioned, if the product is great, and can be understood to be assembled well, or is assembled well, does it matter? We already know the major portion of our products are from foreign origins, where English is a second or third language, so why not just “go with the flow”?
Not to be too critical Bob but you have a couple of errors in your post [;)]. I’m not surprised at the syntax of the ad. Just look at some of the online news blurbs, many times they have one to several glaring errors and they are written by supposedly educated American journalists.
I would buy from the devil himself, speaking in tongues if he offered me a good quality D&RGW K-28 with fine detail and DCC with sound at the right price. Product, quality and price. Nothing is more capitalistic and “Americun” than that!
What is it that offends or that trips you up, Bob? Is it the word “release”? In the plastic molding business, how the cooled shell is released from the mold is important. Sometimes they get mangled, broken, chipped, or they sag due to insufficient cooling time. The rest of the construction is just fine.