katouna@yamaha-motor.co.jp wrote:
>
> Hello Dan. Thank you for your kind compliment and your suppoting my
> instinct <g>. Yes, I had a hunch that "dead battery" is purely a
> technical expression which conveys no positive nor negative
> connotations... Aside from the fact that my boss is not that proficient
> in English to use idiomatically correct English, maybe he wants to
> eliminate any elements from our technical bulletines that would be
> associted with poor quality products, also our bulletines are read by
> many non-native people,
There is nothing wrong in using the right word (discharged) _and_ also
explaining that it means dead or flat. If using both dead and flat is
going to increase the likelihood of your readers understanding you, then
use both.
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