Windows Error Messages - Japanese style

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  1. barnsley66

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    In Japan, they have replaced the
    impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft
    error messages with Haiku poetry
    messages.

    As you know, Haiku poetry has strict
    construction rules - each poem has only
    17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in
    the second, 5 in the third. They are used
    to communicate a timeless message,
    often achieving a wistful, yearning and
    powerful insight through extreme brevity.

    Here are 16 "actual" error messages from
    Japan (we are told!)

    Having been erased,
    The document you're seeking
    Must now be retyped.

    The Web site you seek
    Cannot be located, but
    Countless more exist.

    Chaos reigns within.
    Reflect, repent, and reboot.
    Order shall return.

    Program aborting:
    Close all that you have worked on.
    You ask far too much.

    Windows NT crashed.
    I am the Blue Screen of Death.
    No one hears your screams.

    Yesterday it worked.
    Today it is not working.
    Windows is like that.

    Your file was so big.
    It might be very useful.
    But now it is gone.

    Stay the patient course.
    Of little worth is your ire.
    The network is down.

    A crash reduces
    Your expensive computer
    To a simple stone.

    Three things are certain:
    Death, taxes and lost data.
    Guess which has occurred.

    You step in the stream,
    But the water has moved on.
    This page is not here.

    Out of memory.
    We wish to hold the whole sky,
    But we never will.

    Serious error.
    All shortcuts have disappeared.
    Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
     
  2. Gue

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    And what would the messages be if they came up in BarnsleySpeak ?
     
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