Worst translation ever?

[Stubblejumper]

I recently picked up a cheap grease gun as a spare for my tractor. It is a good thing that I know how to use one. After reading the instructions that came with the Chinese made gun, I'm not even sure it applies to what I bought. Anyone seen a worse translation?

 

[RobertN]

That's pretty bad. Another good one is trying to read HP/Agilent manuals for 41xx series semiconductor parametric analysers. They did not translate very well, which is really bad for a complex piece of test and measurement equipment. They are excellent machines, but the manuals, well...

 

[Tom_Veatch]

... Anyone seen a worse translation?

Hey, don't knock it! At least the "puzzle ... been settled" and we can all sleep soundly tonight.

 

[AndyMA]

As an enginner who spent many years analyzing Japanese consumer products before they became legit, we had a name for that type of english. We called it Japlish. This one is too funny!!!

Andy

 

[Glowplug]

Oh, I've always wondered why my grease gun would occassionally malfunction. ". . .it could be because Rubber Plunger transfigure and contract by squeezed long time which in inside of grease cartridge, and by soak of grease a certain point." Now I know!

Now if I only knew what it said maybe I could fix it!

That is way too funny.

 

[Volfandt]

Just make sure you get the normal phenomenom and use it incessantly

I've had to work off of Japanese, Chinese, Korean and even Swedish translated manuals and I just know that they are all laughing at us

Volfandt

 

[johnk]

Hope it's not a sign of ALL things to come..........

 

[JimR]

Nincompoops wrote that manual so that we americans could understand it..

 

[Casco1]

That's pretty bad. Another good one is trying to read HP/Agilent manuals for 41xx series semiconductor parametric analysers. They did not translate very well, which is really bad for a complex piece of test and measurement equipment. They are excellent machines, but the manuals, well...

RobertN,

Never mind the manual, I don't know what you just said here.

 

[k7oi]

My first reaction was to chuckle, and then I began to wonder how well any of us would do trying to sell a product in China? Would we ask them to "bite the wax tadpole" (as Coke did)? We buy their products... how many are we selling?
Back to the tractor...
Terry