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Post by rmarks1 on Sept 6, 2018 12:38:22 GMT -5
What were they thinking? What were they not thinking?
Bob
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Post by raybar on Sept 6, 2018 12:47:06 GMT -5
This sort of thing is amusing. Sometimes. But I always suspect that many of them are faked.
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Post by faskew on Sept 10, 2018 8:19:44 GMT -5
Being a writer/editor, I often see errors in professional publications. I think people are depending on spell checking software instead of editors. Often, the word may be spelled correctly, but it's the wrong word. (And sometimes it's not even correct spelling.) Sigh.
For my one day a week that I still have a job, I work with several Chinese computer types, and their writing can be very entertaining. Imagine the things that English-as-a-second-language computer folk might write for on-screen instructions for software. Yep, you got it. LOL
Side note - in the computer world, you don't need to move your business overseas. Computer folk can work from anywhere. So the multi-national company I work for hires cheap programmers from China and India. They live at home, but work on our servers located in St. Louis, and I edit their stuff from Austin. Tis indeed a global economy.
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Post by raybar on Sept 10, 2018 9:39:40 GMT -5
I work with several Chinese computer types, and their writing can be very entertaining. Imagine the things that English-as-a-second-language computer folk might write for on-screen instructions for software. When I worked in a camera store years ago, and saw instruction manuals for everything in the store, there were a lot of strangely worded English sentences. We wondered why the manufacturers, mostly in Japan, didn't have their documents proofread by someone in their American offices - - and all the large companies had American offices with American employees - - prior to publication. There's a bunch of "look how stupid these signs are" youtube offerings. And again I wonder why, if they have enough visitors that they put up English signs, they don't just ask one of those many visitors if their signs make sense. |
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Post by faskew on Sept 11, 2018 8:03:03 GMT -5
Sometimes the native English speakers can't do much better. Sigh. In my tech writing world, I do 3-4th grade level instructions for US college graduates. Otherwise, they won't understand. 8-<
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Post by raybar on Sept 11, 2018 13:07:36 GMT -5
In my tech writing world, I do 3-4th grade level instructions for US college graduates. Otherwise, they won't understand. 8-< How about sending a 3rd or 4th grade level explanation of economics to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York. |
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Post by faskew on Sept 13, 2018 9:59:00 GMT -5
Economics is all voodoo. LOL
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