[Leica] A S2 blog entry

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Douglas,

I think this is a little different - at least these people or 
organisations are making an effort to communicate in a different 
language.  At least they got their point across, albeit in a rather 
amusing way.



Mark Pope,
Swindon, Wilts
UK

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Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Nathan,
> 
> I only wish I could do the same, but it would make me very unpopular 
> with my agencies and clients. :-)
> 
> The efforts of some German businesses that try very hard to get things 
> right on their own without a qualified translator can often be 
> particularly frustrating, but are frequently rather amusing (the people 
> who do it are generally responsible for the translation of user manuals 
> and instructions ;-) ).
> 
> A prime example of this was a German translation agency that wrote the 
> following advertising blurb on their website:
> 
> /"We can dispose of up to 50 translators at any time."/ *
> 
> *  I think they meant they have up to 50 translators at their disposal 
> at any time ;-) - but you never know. Translation is a dangerous business.
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> On 12.03.2010 23:21, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> Maybe so. But I can tell you that when I receive a job application, or 
>> a letter from some company trying to sell me something, with grammar 
>> or spelling errors, then the letter (or e-mail, as the case may be) go 
>> straight to the trash. If someone is too sloppy to proofread their 
>> stuff before sending it to me, than I am certainly not wasting my time 
>> reacting to it.
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> http://www.nathanfoto.com
>>
>> Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>> I have heard this "bourgeois preoccupation" anecdote before.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, of course language evolves, and English probably more than 
>>>> most, but that
>>>> does not mean that there are no rules. People who claim that are 
>>>> simply too
>>>> lazy to learn and apply them.
>>>>
>>>> Nathan
>>>>        
>>>
>>> There's grammar and there's etiquette and about the most rude thing 
>>> you can
>>> do is correct someone's etiquette . The second is correcting their 
>>> grammar.
>>> And the most ridiculous is correcting their spelling.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [Rabs]
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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