In Competition No. 2998 you were invited to submit a set of instructions for an everyday device that have been badly translated into English.
Poorly translated menus are more or less guaranteed to raise a holiday snigger (albeit tinged with a guilty awareness of one’s own linguistic shortcomings), but the challenge here was to amuse while staying the right side of intelligible.
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