Imagine you are a young US soldier; you've got your lighter from the PX and wanted a nice engraving on it. You go to the nearest Vietnamese craftsman and ask for this job. His shop looks like the one you go to when you need a new license plate or a tag for your favourite pet. The craftsman doesn't speak perfect English so you have to write the text on a paper sheet. He prepares the text on a form and you read at it carefully, looking for wrong spelling before engraving.