Chinglish sqelling

[Greynomad]

It would be a really good idea if Chinese factories employed someone who knew the difference between ‘p’ and ‘q’...

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[T1 Terry]

I reckon if many of us tried to do the written Chinese language we'd make a lot more of mess of it than a letter back to front
At least these days you can sort of work out what is being said, the early days "Chinglish" simply didn't make sense no matter how hard you tried

T1 Terry

[Greynomad]

T1,
If we were manufacturing for export to China as much as they manufacture for export to Oz, I’m sure we could employ some native Chinese-speaking uni students to vet any written material included.

[Noggins]

T1,
If we were manufacturing for export to China as much as they manufacture for export to Oz, I’m sure we could employ some native Chinese-speaking uni students to vet any written material included.

That's the practical Eurasian way, but a huge "Loss of Face" for an Asian to openly admit that they got it wrong on their export lines.


Ron

[jon_d]

The irony is;

They can make them, they have the laser machines to etch the label, the way to market them and sell them all over the world.

What can we do? Complain about getting the spelling wrong.

[T1 Terry]

The irony is;

They can make them, they have the laser machines to etch the label, the way to market them and sell them all over the world.

What can we do? Complain about getting the spelling wrong.

The real bargains are when they stuff up the labelling. We bought a few of those bulb pump up wedge bags at a crazy price because the label printed on the bags had half the writing reversed mirror image, they even had all the spelling correct and the lay out lined up, just one line the writing was mirror image. The whole lot would have been rejected by the customer so they would have been sold off just to recover some of the losses ... in these cases, we win because of their errors ......

T1 Terry

[BruceS]

mmm. At the moment and for several weeks in our local IGA there is a big basket full of Colgate Toothpaste on super special because all the printing on them is in ...... ??? Looks like Vietnamese I reckon???

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[Dot]

I will not buy anything that is made or grown overseas now after seeing how those countries grow and pack food stuffs. even the dog food is dangerous . Pay peanuts and you get monkeys is so true, cheap and nasty is false economy

[BruceS]

Sounds like you'll soon have no possessions & die of starvation Dot!!
I think that toothpaste was made elswhere FOR the Viet market.

[Dot]

so mote it be