i'm glad they are improving
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/fasttech/424721-funniest-fasttech-description.html
You have to give FT credit for trying. They now sell drip tips - 3 months ago they sold atomizer mouth pieces.
I'm amazed and amused ...
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You have to give FT credit for trying. They now sell drip tips - 3 months ago they sold atomizer mouth pieces.
That's pretty funny! I'll never understand why companies like this do not hire English proofreaders.
One of my all time favorites, from a local Chinese food take out menu:
" We can the spice to alter your taste "!!!
Oh wait, maybe they can cure vapor tongue!!??
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One of my all time favorites, from a local Chinese food take out menu:
" We can the spice to alter your taste "!!!
Oh wait, maybe they can cure vapor tongue!!??
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This is one of my all time favorites. I still have no idea what they where attempting to convey that got lost in translation.
I think it's funny how most American vendors tend to have websites that sound like this.
I just want to tell them to grow up, it's not 2008 anymore. People get that there's no tar and no ashes in e-cigarettes. And with that, who the heck even calls them e-cigarettes, e-cigs, e-smokes, or whatever the heck else? I don't know one person at the supermarket I used to work at who went up and said, "What e-cigs are you selling?". It's always, "Do you have any of those electronic cigarettes?" No one cares about any sort of trendy name.
I also am beginning to laugh at every product claiming to have some magical way of not tasting dry. The designs of tank and clearo devices haven't changed whatsoever in a couple years. It's all the exact same stuff, same heads being used. All that. The gimmicks just get me too much sometimes.
I just want to tell them to grow up, it's not 2008 anymore. People get that there's no tar and no ashes in e-cigarettes. And with that, who the heck even calls them e-cigarettes, e-cigs, e-smokes, or whatever the heck else? I don't know one person at the supermarket I used to work at who went up and said, "What e-cigs are you selling?". It's always, "Do you have any of those electronic cigarettes?" No one cares about any sort of trendy name.
I also am beginning to laugh at every product claiming to have some magical way of not tasting dry. The designs of tank and clearo devices haven't changed whatsoever in a couple years. It's all the exact same stuff, same heads being used. All that. The gimmicks just get me too much sometimes.
I once had a disposable lighter with "Keep away from children in flames" written on it.
It's advice I've held close to my heart, and it's got me to where I am today.
It's advice I've held close to my heart, and it's got me to where I am today.
Great topic! I am always amazed when travelling how much we all really "try hard" to speak one another's languages. You want to respect the other person's language, and not totally mash it.
I taught english as a second language for a while, and also was with Volunteers for Literacy, so I also had the (great priviledge) of teaching people to read (yes, there are americans who never learned and there is nothing that can compare to opening up that door for somebody in their 50s or 60s!) ... and you just learn so much about people
I taught english as a second language for a while, and also was with Volunteers for Literacy, so I also had the (great priviledge) of teaching people to read (yes, there are americans who never learned and there is nothing that can compare to opening up that door for somebody in their 50s or 60s!) ... and you just learn so much about people
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This is one of my all time favorites. I still have no idea what they where attempting to convey that got lost in translation.
Remember the Kamry box device, with "Newfangled Wooden Materials Ecig Mod K600 For Exhibition" ? It also has this amazing quality,
" 1.Wood Environmental Protection Material"
K600 From Kamry Professional Manufacturer of Electronic Cigarettes | Shenzhen Kamry Technology Co., Ltd|E-Cigarette,Electronic Cigarette
Remember, always use the Newfangled wood, it makes a better exhibition and protects the environment.
Can live with it in the ads ...
gets downright interesting though when trying to assemble/install something with a manual translated the same way....
Bought this cheap wall clock for self-assembly with a humongous battery pack ...
Funny that it's running backwards ( like a countdown ). Maybe I should begin to worry about them odd markings on the battery pack. Looking close. That umbrella sign looks pretty much like a little mushroom cloud... Hmmm...
gets downright interesting though when trying to assemble/install something with a manual translated the same way....
Bought this cheap wall clock for self-assembly with a humongous battery pack ...
Funny that it's running backwards ( like a countdown ). Maybe I should begin to worry about them odd markings on the battery pack. Looking close. That umbrella sign looks pretty much like a little mushroom cloud... Hmmm...
I think that the Chinese language must be very poetic. I had the opportunity to present at a seminar in China a few years ago and spent a week afterwards touring around. There was a sign on a patch of sandy grass near the beach that in North America would simply say "Keep off the grass". As this was in Sanya, Hainan province (China does beach resort) there were multiple translations - Russian, English and several character based languages.
The English version read, "Please do not disturb, tiny grass is dreaming".
The English version read, "Please do not disturb, tiny grass is dreaming".
Mm, that's when you know you're about to have some GOOD chinese though.
I think it is! I've lived with a couple of Chinese of people, and they've taught me some awesome facts. Like I think the Chinese word for 'delicious' is just the two logograms for 'fish' and 'sheep'. So 'fish-sheep'.
Here are some names they use, literally translated, for other countries - edit: I stand corrected, looks from the comments that that's actually a misrepresentation, in that many (most?) of them are just phonetic accidents. Still funny though...]
http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/41985
It's no wonder we struggle to learn languages across this gulf. It seems like such a different way of coalescing thought into little manageable chunks... I've even heard that the Chinese have a form of dyslexia which isn't like ours, and if you speak both languages you can be dyslexic in Chinese but not English, or vice versa.
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