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Old 04-22-2010, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Pooka View Post
They pronounce it "Day-oh". Both the a and the o are long vowels.

But mangling a translation is nothing new from that part of the world. Have you ever read the owner's manual from a Honda?

"Don't drink the water in the Battery." I must admit that is good advice, but......
Way back in 1971 I had a Datsun 510, and I bought the Clymer repair manual for it. It was a direct word-for-word translation of the original Japanese. Many sentences required a lot of thinking to understand what they might have meant.
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