OT: Chinglish instructions for a floodlight

[Commander Kinsey]

It should have evolved out.

[Commander Kinsey]

Bullshit. Let's say you're the Chinese guy making the instruction manual. You can either use your poor grasp of English and type in what you think is correct, or you can type more easily in your native tongue into Google Translate, then paste the result into the program you're about to print with. This takes ZERO EXTRA TIME.

[Commander Kinsey]

They didn't get it either.

[Commander Kinsey]

Oh, you were referring to your nym. I failed to spot that.

[Commander Kinsey]

So those sofas are like Viagra?

[Commander Kinsey]

Actually I use subtitles for American programs. Films seem to be ok, they use higher quality actors, but crime dramas the characters tend to mumble.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's 2 metres in the UK, we're sort of metric. And therefore slightly safer from the virus.

And a Gee Whizz. Or me using my horn.

[Tekkie©]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:08:47 -0400, Hawk posted for all of us to digest...

The customers pay for everything!

[David_B]

:-D

No - but I've cheated and looked here:-

Any of those used in Bonnie Scotland?

[David_B]

Gotcha. Thanks.

She's quite pretty! ;-)

[Hawk]

Let's see...the guy either writes it down once with his broken Engrish and be done or writes it down once in a translator then writes it again to another document. It does take more than ZERO EXTRA TIME and adds up to the cost.

[Hawk]

Mistakes happen.

[Hawk]

Over there, the mini Cooper is a true MINI cooper and thus, I can see squeezing in. The horn is always a good tool to alert the idiotic tools of the road.

[Ralph Mowery]

Sure someone has to pay. That is why I said for some of the products the company could give a couple of college students the devices to write them up. I bet even the new Iphone 12 or whatever that costs close to $ 1000 is really on a hundred bucks or less of actual material and the other is research, setup of machinery and profit.

[Snit]

On Oct 22, 2020 at 11:25:00 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0swirylhwdg98l@glass>:

No, they come in white.

[Snit]

On Oct 22, 2020 at 11:24:00 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0swiqab0wdg98l@glass>:

They tweeted about it.

[Snit]

On Oct 22, 2020 at 11:21:38 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0swimcmcwdg98l@glass>:

Really think ones from the south or New England can be a bit of a challenge but generally I can understand them. I tend to understand accents better than average, though I am hardly extraordinary at it.

[Snit]

On Oct 22, 2020 at 11:18:47 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey"" wrote <op.0swihlj6wdg98l@glass>:

So speak funny.

[rbowman]

This is true. I could live without that much realism in scenes where the background noise makes it hard to understand the conversation.

Brit crime movies are a mixed bag. In 'Shetland' Douglas Henshall is usually okay but Alison O'Donnell can be murky at times. I've read it was criticized because the characters don't have Shetland accents but that was probably all to the good for the rest of the world. I've been on some of the inbred islands off the coast of Maine where it's rumored they speak English but I couldn't prove it.

[Snit]

On Oct 22, 2020 at 7:08:11 PM MST, "rbowman" wrote [e-mail]>:

I am with you on this. I have very sensitive hearing but a hard time blocking out background noises.