What on earth does that mean? Ahhhh, Chinglish!

[sheerluck]

This one made me stop and think "what the hell is that supposed to mean?".

It's on the back of a pack of LED indicator bulbs (bought to "de-tango" the front of the D3)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/454.jpg

Answers on a postcard please.

[Rohan]

This one made me stop and think "what the hell is that supposed to mean?".

It's on the back of a pack of LED indicator bulbs (bought to "de-tango" the front of the D3)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/454.jpg

Answers on a postcard please.

Now I'll have to check all my LED's for UN-steady flow inside the patch

components :eek:

Maybe I won't need insurance?

[sheerluck]

........Maybe I won't need insurance?

Apparently not, these LEDs bring their own insurance. Very generous for $5!

[Disco Muppet]

It says "White man only look at price, not writing on back" :p

[TeamFA]

Reminds me of the Rumbaflex 2000...

[Homestar]

I like this one -
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=60728&d=1369028757

[digger]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/415.jpg

Maybe you could use them in this torch?

[Homestar]

What does this even mean??

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Digger - do you have punishment detecting capture very often???:D

[2stroke]

Ah Chinglish is such fun! I had to connect a Chinese generator (a reliable unit actually) to some machinery once and on the top cover was a sticker that said " open the door must be carefully stuck the hear". If not for the picture of a person's head with earmuffs I wouldn't have figured it out.

[digger]

What does this even mean??

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Digger - do you have punishment detecting capture very often???:D

No, I cape-ture people... cant be done without the cape!

Mine has a big SD on it.... "Super Digger" (or maybe stupid dreamer)

[Disco Muppet]

What does this even mean??

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=60729&d=1369029348

Digger - do you have punishment detecting capture very often???:D

Capeture Gav, not Capture.
Different concept, soopa secret, can't tell you about it old boy.
:p

[digger]

Capeture Gav, not Capture.
Different concept, soopa secret, can't tell you about it old boy.
:p

Ahhh "what D Muppet knows he keeps"

Old jungle saying. :p

[Disco Muppet]

Ahhh "what D Muppet knows he keeps"

Old jungle saying. :p

:Rolling:

[sheerluck]

It says "White man only look at price, not writing on back" :p

In all the time I worked over there, I only managed to learn about 20 words of Mandarin. And unfortunately, none of those 20 words are on that box. :(

[brenno]

All this Chinglish talk makes me

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l494/4X4BRENO8/ror.jpg (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/4X4BRENO8/media/ror.jpg.html)

[Basil135]

I saw the first post in this thread, and thought to myself, "Myself, this is ONE thread that just cannot go any lower"


How wrong I was...


:bangin:

[EchiDna]

I'll take a stab and say any of their written or spoken English exceeds your Mandarin skills...

with a little exposure to Chinese grammar, they all make sense.

[sheerluck]

I'll take a stab and say any of their written or spoken English exceeds your Mandarin skills...

with a little exposure to Chinese grammar, they all make sense.

I tried while I was working in China, but i just couldn't get Mandarin. Part of the problem was that the team I worked with would speak amongst themselves in a mix of Shanghainese and Mandarin, along with some of the team were native Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong.

Plus the pinyin characters are a long way from the Romance style alphabets, so it is doubly difficult to go from the written to the spoken language.

I speak French and German with a reasonable degree of fluency, quite rusty with Dutch, and can manage tourist style Italian and Spanish. But my brain cannot make that leap from the western style languages to the Asian ones. :(

[EchiDna]

I tried while I was working in China, but i just couldn't get Mandarin. Part of the problem was that the team I worked with would speak amongst themselves in a mix of Shanghainese and Mandarin, along with some of the team were native Cantonese speakers from Hong Kong.

Plus the pinyin characters are a long way from the Romance style alphabets, so it is doubly difficult to go from the written to the spoken language.

I speak French and German with a reasonable degree of fluency, quite rusty with Dutch, and can manage tourist style Italian and Spanish. But my brain cannot make that leap from the western style languages to the Asian ones. :(

ah yes, the dialect issue.... plenty of that in my experience too, my mandarin isn't the best, but I can order food, make basic conversation and recognize enough pinyin to know what I'm eating and what the sauce will be... my kids on the other hand just soak it up at school.

[FeatherWeightDriver]

Back to the original image, maybe it means an external fuse (insurance) is required?

[sheerluck]

ah yes, the dialect issue.... plenty of that in my experience too, my mandarin isn't the best, but I can order food, make basic conversation and recognize enough pinyin to know what I'm eating and what the sauce will be... my kids on the other hand just soak it up at school.

I got as far as being able to direct a taxi driver, a few basic conversation pieces and some numbers. Even though we were working in China,Vietnam, Singapore and Hong Kong, our "official" language was English, followed by (as it was a French company) French. Not as much opportunity to learn as there could have been.

[2stroke]

Though I enjoy a good chuckle at "chinglish" as appears on their products and literature supplied (with their lathes as an example), at least they make the effort. Drawings supplied with Russian and eastern European stuff well that's in one language only and not nearly as much fun.

[bob10]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/415.jpg

Maybe you could use them in this torch?

I think we have found the missing NostraDamus quatrain, Bob

[Homestar]

Hmmm.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/attachment.php?attachmentid=60782&d=1369130092

Discrimination against cowards?

[DiscoMick]

Not Chinglish, but when I went to check why the washing machine had stopped the other day, it was displaying the message: "HELP! I am unbalanced." I thought, "You'll be right at home in this family.":D

Some great Chinglish here:
http://www.engrish.com/

Here's one from Malaysia:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/05/379.jpg

[sheerluck]

Not Chinglish, but when I went to check why the washing machine had stopped the other day, it was displaying the message: "HELP! I am unbalanced." I thought, "You'll be right at home in this family."

:Rolling:

I had heard that dogs frequently pick up owners' personality traits, but never washing machines!