Why Written Instructions Are a Good Thing

Maybe I’m just complaining, but here’s the message:

I’ve had pretty good luck with Ikea’s pictorial instructions, but I hear a lot of folks complain about the lack of text. I even heard an in-house Ikea joke about how hard it was to bury the president of the company after he died because they had difficulty figuring out how to assemble the coffin.

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Seems to me I saw this rule a long time ago. Second panel.

’nuff said. I gotta admit, the passage is readable.

Correct, but I’m not sure I can explain why:

So how would you explain when to use lives or lifes?

This is one panel from the comic. The two pronumciations are [PRAH-gress] and [pro-GRESS]. Get it?

The rest of the comic makes the distinction clearer…

Second panel:

I always hear the “r.” sherbert. How do you pronunce it?