Chinglish?

[SamBones]

While shopping for some bike parts online, I came across this that gave me much joy.

Baby describe

sram mountain bike pg1050 cassette flywheel ( 11t-32t ) most denticulus : 11t maximum tooth : krishnamurti 298 32t heavy 8 , 9 , 10 speed one piece , rest 7 speed split .

Buyers guidelines

1 . please ask don't of our any products , book shop all products agent is normal overstimulates , don't existence counterfeit .

2 . book store most goods separatedly , for the light different , may the part of the color will have composite, , composite, 's if worry about problem , please reconsider .

3 . the goods isreceived , outer packing damaged please peop le product in sign for , damaged , please rejectable such as sign for , buyers for responsibility , seller h20 unaccountable .

4 . if need anotherproduct goods , please first time contact customer service , situation the consensus after the goods returned , if need we pay , please do ( we are don't accept any to pay the mail ) , received 'll return of the will give you a . reimburse

5 . shipments big due to , easy hair leak , book shop all the items are subject to shoot the doesn't take ( contact customer service price modified , customer service don't online can be rem. ) , such as not photographed , automatic regarded as give up right , don't reissued . in

Postage explain

1 . knock-on please first don't heistate check situation . , mailing and . default hair , others please specify ( don't hair ) , ado, need , parts of a charge .

2 . the arrival of the time for the selected the way and region distance fixed , general 14 days , 2 - 5 day . more than 5 day , more than 15 day , please contact .

3 . all liquids can't go air transport , speed 'll relative comparatively slow , please referrence to after buying a .

It's almost poetry! More understandable than Finnegan's Wake.

 

[mintjulep]

Looks like straight machine translation.

Did you buy something?

 

[ChrisHirst]

Yoda there employed must be.





Chris.

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[razalas]

Does Google offer an "untranslate" service?

Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!

Razalas

 

[Andrzejek]

There is a YouTube video (sorry, don’t have a link to it) of a song from Frozen (last year’s animated movie) where somebody took English version of a song’s lyrics, used Google to translate it (into Spanish, I think), and then translated it back to English. Hilarious.

Have fun.

---- Andy

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[MakeItSo]

Reminds me of the famous Mark Twain and his "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", where he back-translated a French translation into English (Clawed Back Into a Civilized Language Once More by Patient, Unremunerated Toil). Wonderful!
:-D

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[kwbMitel]

There is a website dedicated to these things

engrish.com

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[philhege]

There is a YouTube video (sorry, don’t have a link to it) of a song from Frozen (last year’s animated movie) where somebody took English version of a song’s lyrics, used Google to translate it (into Spanish, I think), and then translated it back to English. Hilarious.

Oh, yeah, the good ol' Babelfish wringer. Run the Gettysburg address through it a few times. Classic.

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[ChrisHunt]

Reminds me of the famous Mark Twain and his "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", where he back-translated a French translation into English

Or of his translation of the Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate as part of his essay The Awful German Language (well worth a read if you've ever tried to learn German).

-- Chris Hunt
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[MakeItSo]

Yep!
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

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[Olaf Doschke]

Well, you can do that, but it's bad style. Short sentences are recommended from many professional writers, because of the german grammar and sentence composition.
I know that essay of Mark Twain. In a part it's accusations are wrong. He talks about false friends, for example, words which look familiar but mean something totally different. That's wrong criticism, yet amusing.

To illustrate: A few years ago I came across someone who became desperate with a website offering polls. The poll options she entered were translated from english to german, as the site was english. Though the poll options she entered were already german. That was just because the browsers had that feature turned on by default. The german article "die" (the german feminine form of "the") was automatically recognized as english word and translated "back" to german with "sterben" (to die, dying), whcih shows how bad such features still are, not sensing semantics and context and simply assuming all text an english site shows is english. It wasn't a fault of the site, it was a fault of her browser, nobody understood her, until someone made a remote session via teamviewer to see her browser in action.

Bye, Olaf.