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  1. PeterS

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    #1 PeterS, Jul 22, 2005
    Chinese vernacular is killing me! I offered to help clean up the horrible spelling and piss-poor grammar on one of my China supplier's website. Here's an example of what I am dealing with! OMG! How can some of these companies expect to do business with the global economy! I can see I will be spending many hours to complete what I said I would! :(

    "Our factory set up in 1992,is a largescale enterprises combining with designing, manufacturing and trading.It has more than twenty thousand square meters modernized wordshops and veryly dedicate advanced manufacturing,inspecting equipments. The product we have produced are including Radio controlled toys,electronic and machine toys,All the toys we make brand-new styles with unique functions have been very selling and welcome by the clients from Europe,USA and Middle East. Please enjoy hospatality me make for you to greet to our company".
     
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    #2 darth550, Jul 22, 2005
    ROR!
     
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    #3 PeterS, Jul 22, 2005
    ROR??? WTF?
     
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    #4 ashsimmonds, Jul 23, 2005
    that's Scooby Doo/Astro: Rarf Out Roud
     
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    #5 Schatten, Jul 23, 2005
    I laughed.

    Hint: re rish you a rerry christmas...re rish you a rerry christmas...
     
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    #6 RossoCorsaItaly, Jul 23, 2005
    Raugh out Roud. I didn't really get it until I saw Team America.
     
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    #7 PeterS, Jul 23, 2005
    Talking to Darth last night, we both agreed that there is a huge potential for this service. The company that I am doing this for is beyond appreciative of my time to clean up their verbiage. They understand the value of having proper English on their website.
     
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    #8 Dcup, Jul 23, 2005
    i think it looks ok.
     
  9. tvrfreak

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    #9 tvrfreak, Jul 23, 2005
    Pete, did that English stop you from doing business with them? Did it stop anyone else? Unless it's a core sales and marketing tool for the enterprise, the language on the website is not critical. Certainly, it should not be terrible, but it's not a priority for the business to polish it and its translation(s).
     
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    #10 PeterS, Jul 23, 2005
    You no probibly more then anyone what good english about. People visit website company need know that company good asset for all. Haveing good englesh on website make people thing company is good with business. When people go to other website with good englesh its more better to understand and make good decision to do buy with them.
     
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    #11 hwyengr, Jul 23, 2005
    Since we're talking about cleaning up language and using proper words, you're misusing verbiage. Verbiage, (or 'verbage', as my old boss used to say), is the cluttering of a sentence or thought with superfluous words. For example, all of my papers in high school were written with verbiage, since I always fluffed them out to meet a minimum length requirement. Buzzword loving corporate America has hijacked the word. What's funny, is that most corporate mumbo-jumbo actually is verbiage.
     
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    #12 tvrfreak, Jul 23, 2005
    ROR!!!! Velly velly fa neeeee. :)

    On a more serious note, as I hinted at in closing last time, there is a happy medium between exquisite, delectable pearls of wisdom and Engrish as she be spoke and spelt.

    Incidentally we have a gem of a writer on this board...our very own Wax. I am not talking about the sales-brochure type of writing, but the eye-popping, head-reeling, why-can't-I-sear-people's-retinas-with-imagery-like-that kind of writing.
     
  13. PeterS

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    #13 PeterS, Jul 23, 2005
    Thanks for the smile face on your last reply. I was about ready to call you out to the kart track and kick your butt (again!). :) :) :)
     
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    #14 PeterS, Jul 23, 2005
    I like the word VERBIAGE, therefore, I shall use it!
     
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    #15 tvrfreak, Jul 23, 2005
    No stop don't. :)
     
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    #16 tvrfreak, Jul 23, 2005
    Actually, hwyengr, verbiage has two meanings. It can refer to just the manner in which something is expressed. The other meaning is, as you say, an overabundance of words.

    PeterS used it correctly.
     
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    #17 PeterS, Jul 23, 2005
    HA! Faisal just got a karting invite!
     
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    #18 hwyengr, Jul 24, 2005
    PeterS's use is an adopted use, created because of misuse. Check the definition in the OED. That's all that matters.
     
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    #19 tvrfreak, Jul 24, 2005
    No dude, language is not written in stone. It evolves, changes, twists, and turns. Look at how the word *** is used now, and when was the last time you went to the haberdashery? As long as it's correct at the time of usage, it's an appropriate use.

    Or we would be rewriting Shakespeare.
     
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    #20 wax, Jul 25, 2005
    I am humbled.









    Dollar's on it's way!
     
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    #21 Billy10mm, Jul 25, 2005
    What the hell? If this was a black joke everyone would be jumping down your arse right now. Why do my people get to take this sort of crap and it's ok? Screw you, my family worked hard and gave up a lot to get where they are and the last thing they need is for their son to feel demeaned by some moron hiding behind a keyboard.

    Billy Ng

    Just kidding, I'm Irish. =P
     
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    #22 tvrfreak, Jul 25, 2005
    One dolla make you holla! :D
     

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