Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "The worst English phrasebook ever written" video.

And yet, it is also hard copy, in that it is a physical object, the text printed out on paper, rather than only existing as electronic data.
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I've occasionally run across users manuals for electrical product where it's been blatantly obvious that different people translated different sections, or possibly just the person doing the work was rushed for time at the end, so the first few pages are perfectly good English, or close enough, but the last few range from 'that took some effort to figure out' to 'utterly incomprehensible'. And at least 'for to opening the boot, be pressing the button' is fairly easy to figure out: to open the boot, press the button. There's the old classic of instructions that say 'do A' (turn page) 'but not before doing B'. A comedy sketch example (the pause while the page is turned sees the guy working on a car engine, I believe, do thing A... and promptly get a face full of oil or some such), but one does sometimes encounter such problems.
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@thisismycoolnickname if you mean in English, that issue would be largely because the English 'long' vowels are mostly nothing of the sort (not that english doesn't have vowels that are techically long, mind, but that's a whole other issue) , the lable is an artifact of history from before the great vowel shift, if I remember rightly.
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@artomatt Properly speaking it is hard copy, in that it's a physical object (paper) rather than data that requires an electronic device in order to access it. (it's the same distinction as hardware vs software... though I'm not sure what, if anything, the analogue to wetware (biological components) would be. )
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