Chinglish

[Toggy]

Don't you just love the chinglish instructions in some manuals.

Anybody care to decipher these two.

1. Use foot bolt to forbid the machine leaning to the ground

2. Saw after the machine rolling regularly select different speed of filling material according to the different hardness and thickness of the wood. Forbid filling material too fast.

Ken

[beejay1]

我整个地同意什么您说但当然您必须意识到汉语是一种更加复杂的语言比英语以许多词和字符学会。 并且, 让面孔它。 多少位westerners 是能翻译英语成汉语。As we often say.
Globetrotter and entrepreneur.
beejay1

[journeyman Mick]

1) bolt base down to prevent tipping.
2)Feed stock once blade has reached operating speed and vary the feed speed to suit stock dimensions and hardness. Never feed stock too fast.

Mick

[Daddles]

Mick, you've got to stop drinking that home made whisky, it's damaging your cognitive processes.

Richard

[journeyman Mick]

Naah, it's the lightning strikes, they've fried my brain!

Mick

[LineLefty]

all your base are belong to us!

Funny stuff
it's technical term is engrish and there' whole web pages devoted to it.

[Toggy]

Vote 1 for Mick to write asian machinery manuals.

His version is just a tad easier to understand. I wonder how many people just throw the instructions in the bin when confronted with the above rubbish?


Ken

[Daddles]

Nah, never happens to me. I don't read them in the first place.

Richard

[Zed]

consider yousrselves lucky you dont have to read the telco manuals I have to wade through - literally 1000's of pages of similar guff! bugger!

[silentC]

Just have a can of Bite The Wax Tadpole and relax

[jackiew]

consider yousrselves lucky you dont have to read the telco manuals I have to wade through - literally 1000's of pages of similar guff! bugger!

in one job we got given telco equipment manuals in portuguese and none of us spoke portuguese :eek:

[Iain]

Years ago I was trying to decipher some software, CHRISPAY, it proudly announced on screen that it was developed by UNIX, my comment was they could not spell.

[Daddles]

In my latter days in the pubic service (no typo), we had to develop all sorts of business plans and manuals and the like. But, the manager suddenly decided that we weren't going to be 'word smiths'. That these things would just be written and we weren't going to spend hours editing them. This was going to be a marvelous saving in time and money. So we produced a heap of badly written, badly spelt tomes with dreadful grammar. Just as well as no-one ever read the ruddy things anyway

Richard

[Peter R]

in one job we got given telco equipment manuals in portuguese and none of us spoke portuguese :eek:

Well how did you know it was Portuguese then?:confused:

Peter R

[AlexS]

Back in my (relative) youth I did a year of Japanese. One night towards the end of the year, they put a Spanish tape on in the language lab. Despite never having learned Spanish, I reckon I understood it better than Japanese.