My home on the web - featuring my real-life persona!

Normal, Light, Minimum

I am translating some device strings, and sometimes you run into strings that just seem so wrong. Right now, I am working on a device that triggers a measurement when a user presses down on the measurement head. The user can select how much pressure has to be put on the device, and the options are Normal, Light and Minimum.

This just seems so wrong to me, shouldn’t “Normal” be the middle value and the choices should be Firm, Normal, Light or so? Ts…firmware engineers :-)

July 28, 2010 | Filed Under Work 

comments

One Response to “Normal, Light, Minimum”

  1. Madhushewata the technical translator on October 10th, 2011

    Hi! Well you are absolutely right Normal should have been taken as the middle value but you know this can also not be taken as a wrong method because it is using a step process where you are coming down from the highest value to lowest. This is just a personal view but I think this is not completely wrong. What say?

Leave a Reply