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Old 12-02-2013, 07:43 AM   #54
MikeB1972
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Originally Posted by Yapyap View Post
The various user manuals I've seen translated into English from various Asian languages can indeed be quite, um, interesting - I'm quite sure that's the case when the Asian companies have hired their own people without checking their language skills first (could also be a case of hiring a friend or relative or relative of a friend) instead of giving the job to a native speaker or at least someone actually qualified.
I'm sticking with my opinion that all user manuals used to be translated from the original into English by a Korean rice farmer with no knowledge of the product or either of the 2 languages. Nowadays I think they have skipped the farmer and gone straight to google translate.
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