Earlier today, I received a special offer from Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace to hold New Year's Party at discount.  There was only one problem.  I couldn't read the offer (see image below).  This is actually quite a common problem in Mongolia.  As such, I advise Mongolian Marketing Managers and others to use special caution when using MONKEY (Mon-Key), an outdated Windows tool allowing Mongolians to type with Cyrillic characters.  In fact, I believe this tool should altogether just be banned!

I'm not picking on Kempinski Khan Palace at all.  Even my bankers at Khaan Bank have this issue as well.  In fact, we have this issue on pretty much 20-40% of communications I receive in Mongolian language.  Interestingly, I even heard there is a government requirement making people use MONKEY.  Outdated laws like these should be changed, if they are not already.

In the meantime, everyone, please use utmost caution and care.  If possible, do NOT use MONKEY.  Rather, just use the language tools that now come standard on Windows XP, Vista, and 7.