What horrible English! >:O

[kennylmao]

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Reason circled in red.

 

[Wiegert]

Quite a few products which are manufactured in China and sold to predominantly English speaking nations have instructions/product information written in Sinicized English. Your Notebook Cooler Pad is just one of many examples.

 

[Apok]

I recently had fun reading the instructions on my Fujimi model kit.

''During or before assembling the kit, be careful of the sharp edged parts or burr due to improper forming of metallic and plastic parts. They may cut your finger, hand or foot if carelessly handed.''

I have no clue what burr is or why you would try and assemble a model kit with your foot.

And the kit was made in Japan.

 

[opelgt1969]

I recently had fun reading the instructions on my Fujimi model kit.

''During or before assembling the kit, be careful of the sharp edged parts or burr due to improper forming of metallic and plastic parts. They may cut your finger, hand or foot if carelessly handed.''

I have no clue what burr is or why you would try and assemble a model kit with your foot.

And the kit was made in Japan.

A "burr" is the bump that is left on the plastic when you remove it, a burr also is on bolts/screws or anything that has a edge left that would slice your finger. As the foot part goes that when you try going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and your child has left their "toy" out and you step on it except you don't yell out "burr".

 

[Apok]

A "burr" is the bump that is left on the plastic when you remove it, a burr also is on bolts/screws or anything that has a edge left that would slice your finger. As the foot part goes that when you try going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and your child has left their "toy" out and you step on it except you don't yell out "burr".

Thanks, didn't know it was called a burr to be honest.
''🤬, I cut my foot on your burr.''

Though the whole manual is strangely worded. Which is funny because another manual I have, also by Fujimi, about 20 years older has perfect english.

 

[opelgt1969]

Thanks, didn't know it was called a burr to be honest.
''🤬, I cut my foot on your burr.''

Though the whole manual is strangely worded. Which is funny because another manual I have, also by Fujimi, about 20 years older has perfect english.

I'm going to go easy on this subject :
Back 20 years ago when companies had thing made elsewhere they sent a copy of the "destructions" and they just printed it,now the instructions are outsourced along with the product.

 

[Camaroyenko]

If the government would pull his head out of his butt, stuff would be made in the US instead....just my 2 cents

 

[CMvan46]

I recently had fun reading the instructions on my Fujimi model kit.

''During or before assembling the kit, be careful of the sharp edged parts or burr due to improper forming of metallic and plastic parts. They may cut your finger, hand or foot if carelessly handed.''

I have no clue what burr is or why you would try and assemble a model kit with your foot.

And the kit was made in Japan.

A burr is an edge of a sharp object having a piece of metal come up a bit. Very common on hockey skates and it's a regular word for anybody playing hockey actually. They have to warn of feet because what if you drop it on the floor? That would cut your foot wouldn't it?

If the government would pull his head out of his butt, stuff would be made in the US instead....just my 2 cents

If you'd like to pay double for a ton of products sure. Or maybe minimum wage gets cut in half? Haha I'm sure everybody would be happy stuff was made in the states then wouldn't they?

 

[lbsf1]

I've got a quite amusing translation on the back of a box that came with a camera I bought from china. I'll post it up tommorow.

 

[Apok]

A burr is an edge of a sharp object having a piece of metal come up a bit. Very common on hockey skates and it's a regular word for anybody playing hockey actually. They have to warn of feet because what if you drop it on the floor? That would cut your foot wouldn't it?

It's made out of soft plastic and weighs next to nothing. You'd have to try very hard to get it to cut anything.
Now if there were actual metallic parts in the kit then perhaps it would be different, but there aren't. Though I guess they use the same warning label for all their kits and maybe there are some with metal pieces in them in which case I still find it silly to include a warning like that.

 

[Villain]

Engrish.

 

[alexleighton]

One of my hobbies is going to Chinatown and looking for bizarre products, usually with some mangled English on the packaging. My favorite is a bedbug finder (flashlight) from a brand called "Parasite Pals", and it shows a small girl surrounded by various insects. Then inside the label, it says: "Here is the girl with small friends of life present for always. Some irritation she finds with them, but much fun and love is to be shared. Zzeezz is happy for to be living inside the bed. He is always tired from many biting."

I kind of feel bad for the shopowners when a bunch of white guys come into their store and are laughing at their products, although I'm convinced there are some stores who make their entire trade off having strange stuff from China.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

I recently had fun reading the instructions on my Fujimi model kit.

''During or before assembling the kit, be careful of the sharp edged parts or burr due to improper forming of metallic and plastic parts. They may cut your finger, hand or foot if carelessly handed.''

I have no clue what burr is or why you would try and assemble a model kit with your foot.

And the kit was made in Japan.

Opelgt is right, Burr is a technical term especially for metal cutting and forming, burred edges occur after cutting metal and thus needed to be ground down. Also if you dropped a piece with a burred edge and didn't know what a burr was it could cut you...like say your foot.

Why did the OP have to circle those parts I doubt that being made in china is the real reason the english is skewed.

 

[Camaroyenko]

If you'd like to pay double for a ton of products sure. Or maybe minimum wage gets cut in half? Haha I'm sure everybody would be happy stuff was made in the states then wouldn't they?

It would indeed make the economy slow for a while, but it would be worth it, because we'd get people working.


As always, I'm not going to say everything on my mind because this is the Rumble Strip.

 

[Tesla]

http://www.engrish.com/

That is all.

 

[dxm8975]

I've seen funny and odd instructions of products manufactured in China, which are written in sincere Japanese too while I was watching a TV programme introducing about funny/trivial things related to Japan... Just a slip of the pen of some Japanese characters that look alike, mistaken distinction of "き" and "さ" for instance.

 

[CMvan46]

It's made out of soft plastic and weighs next to nothing. You'd have to try very hard to get it to cut anything.
Now if there were actual metallic parts in the kit then perhaps it would be different, but there aren't. Though I guess they use the same warning label for all their kits and maybe there are some with metal pieces in them in which case I still find it silly to include a warning like that.

Applies to plastic and wood too. Wood burrs are known as splinters though, same thing. If they didn't include the foot on there then chances are the first person to cut their foot would sue them.

It would indeed make the economy slow for a while, but it would be worth it, because we'd get people working.

You have a very limited scope on how the economy and world community works then. It's not that easy and if you tried that now or at anytime in the foreseeable future the country would simply collapse. Nobody makes the wage to buy things and then there is no longer demand for it which is how recessions and depressions start....


Anyway why in he heck is this thread still open? This has to be a candidate for pointless thread of the year and it's the first week in January.... Worse still I've posted in it twice!

 

[Camaroyenko]

You have a very limited scope on how the economy and world community works then. It's not that easy and if you tried that now or at anytime in the foreseeable future the country would simply collapse. Nobody makes the wage to buy things and then there is no longer demand for it which is how recessions and depressions start....

BUT, here's the thing (here's the thing). We'd have MORE people working making MORE wages.

They could even bring manufacturing back gradually if they wish.

 

[Robin]

I've seen loads of these questionably worded instructions over the years and I find them quite entertaining. Usually someone has just stuck them through an online translator which is why they make no sense!

 

[Techy]

This reminds me of a Youtube channel of where a guy reviews imported goods from China & Thailand. Some of them are terrible derivations of popular items. For example one called the POP Station assuming a spoof of the PSP. I think it was ashens. His videos make me chuckle quite a bit

 

[kennylmao]

Anyway why in he heck is this thread still open? This has to be a candidate for pointless thread of the year and it's the first week in January.... Worse still I've posted in it twice!

I'm sure my post would take the cake.

Thank you all for sharing! I thought this only happens in my country, where practically 'anything goes'.

I mean my country where there isn't enforcement on crappy ripoff pirated products like these which get released into the market. Not meaning my country makes these products.

 

[Wiegert]

This reminds me of a Youtube channel of where a guy reviews imported goods from China & Thailand. Some of them are terrible derivations of popular items. For example one called the POP Station assuming a spoof of the PSP. I think it was ashens. His videos make me chuckle quite a bit

Oh, I had a feeling someone would mention Ashens. The POP Station is such a brilliant piece of gaming tech


His reviews of poorly made Chinese electronic products and toys (often with instructions written in Chinglish) gives you an idea of some of the cheap crap we get shipped over from China.

 

[Nicko]

I love how the first item doesn't even have the C in China capitalised.

 

[Camaroyenko]

I love how the first item doesn't even have the C in China capitalised.

Indeed-I noticed that also.

 

[Antonisbob]

I've experienced Engrish before. It's quiet funny once you get reading it.

 

[Coxis]

http://www.engrish.com/

That is all.

This is all.

 

[Borna12345]

This reminds me of a Youtube channel of where a guy reviews imported goods from China & Thailand. Some of them are terrible derivations of popular items. For example one called the POP Station assuming a spoof of the PSP. I think it was ashens. His videos make me chuckle quite a bit

Yeah, he's awesome! I loved the iPhone knockoff review the most.

 

[W3H5]

That's not English. It's Chinglish! See it every day. Some of it is rather amusing, like the sign in my lift that says "People accompanied in the elevator should be the old, the children, the disables and the others."

 

[Azure Flare]

A hammer I saw once had (You can't make this up!) "Made in China" on the WARNING LABEL! It was both hilarious and unnerving at the same time.

 

[W3H5]

I bought my sister a T-shirt with "Made in China" printed on it. It's funny 'coz it's true.