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From PC World:
Windows' Japanese edition uses haiku error messages.
We have a yen for this legend, which claims that rather than offering the cryptic error messages Windows displays for English readers, Japanese editions use calming haiku poems, such as this one (our favorite):
Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
Sadly, such messages are fictional. The list of haiku messages circulating on the Internet is culled from a 1998 contest organized by Salon, an online magazine, which challenged readers to come up with error messages in haiku form. Salon received more than 200 entries from which it picked two winners:
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
and
Everything is gone; Your life's work has been destroyed. Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
Windows' Japanese edition uses haiku error messages.
We have a yen for this legend, which claims that rather than offering the cryptic error messages Windows displays for English readers, Japanese editions use calming haiku poems, such as this one (our favorite):
Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.
Sadly, such messages are fictional. The list of haiku messages circulating on the Internet is culled from a 1998 contest organized by Salon, an online magazine, which challenged readers to come up with error messages in haiku form. Salon received more than 200 entries from which it picked two winners:
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
and
Everything is gone; Your life's work has been destroyed. Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
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