I have always wondered, how hard is it really for someone in china/japan/east of here to find a cousin, friend, relative, dog, whatever who actually speaks semi proper english and run these "instructions" past them before they are actually printed?
I mean give me one day and from relatives acquaintences or friends of friends etc, I guarantee I can find probably people who can cover 95% of the worlds languages.
How hard can it be?
Agreed. It doesn't help that English has over twice as many words as any other language on the planet. Not only that, it's such a *******ized language with bits and pieces culled from so many others that about the only consistent rule is that there are no consistent rules.
Try memorizing all the characters in the chinese language.
Hilarious! But keep in mind, English is one of the hardest languages out there to learn if you didn't grow up around it.
But keep in mind, English is one of the hardest languages out there to learn if you didn't grow up around it.
If I'm not mistaken, the characters are pictures the meanings of which are divinable from how they look and they way thay're drawn, which is more than you can say for English words.
Not by a long shot! Try french grammar, talk about a nightmare. :duh2:
Not gona even start on the squiggly line languages, like arabic. :green:
Hilarious! But keep in mind, English is one of the hardest languages out there to learn if you didn't grow up around it.
Are you serious ?!!!!
Take a look at Mandarin, or Russian and lastly my native language Greek and then tell me if you think English is hard...
Forgot to mention: As far as the Original post goes, the company that produced the equipment used a local (Korean or Chinese) company to do the translation for them and probably wanted it cheap so they didn't pay extra for proof reading by a native speaker (english in this case). End result was achieved by using programs like SDLX or Trados which do the translation automatically, by someone who has a very narrow/basic understanding of english.