Classic Chinglish

[Downeaster]

From the "manual" that came with my new Vevor 4" mill vise. The actual vise is pretty nice, especially considering that it's 1/10th or less the price of a Kurt. BTW, it's advertised on Amazon as a "Happybuy" and a few bucks cheaper than the one listed as a Vevor. Came in a Vevor box. Of course, Vevor is a re-seller, not a manufacturer, so that didn't come as much of a surprise.

 

[bosco659]

Gotta love these instructions that come with Chinesium products. One would think with all the well educated Chinese people out there, manufacturers would be able to find and hire individuals to write up proper, meaningful manuals / instructions. Maybe not the case for your vise but I believe many of these manuals are generated by Google translate or something similar. Makes for entertaining reading.

For a simple device, bad instructions may be tolerable. For things like my diesel heater, the manual was completely useless. The photos in the manual didn’t represent the heater that I bought. The only way I could figure out how to operate it was a YouTube video I stumbled onto.

 

[NP2650]

Leaving it written in Chinese might have been more helpful.

 

[Raymond]

I take Bosco's point, must be plenty well-educated Chinese who could write decent copy BUT if you own a tool factory in Wu Hu and you hire somebody to do translations how you gonna know how good their English is? The top graduates get all the high-paid jobs in commerce or diplomacy or journalism but mebbe the B-grades are lucky enough to write English instructions for dehumidifiers?

Then again, might be machine translated. Which is a depressing thought because if the rise the of machines is going to force us to accept 'near-enough' English as being adequate for interacting with AI then the whole lingo's on a slippy slope.

 

[Charles13]

Gotta love these instructions that come with Chinesium products. One would think with all the well educated Chinese people out there, manufacturers would be able to find and hire individuals to write up proper, meaningful manuals / instructions. Maybe not the case for your vise but I believe many of these manuals are generated by Google translate or something similar. Makes for entertaining reading.

For a simple device, bad instructions may be tolerable. For things like my diesel heater, the manual was completely useless. The photos in the manual didn’t represent the heater that I bought. The only way I could figure out how to operate it was a YouTube video I stumbled onto.

Wow no kidding, I have an old army truck that I converted into an rv, I installed a boiler system to run various heating needs and decided that the Chinese knock-off VVBK (that was 1/4 the price) was the way to go; it did not come with any directions and when I contacted them, they asked me if would like to write a manual for them! long story short the VVBK lasted a couple of months and I had to replace it with a real Espar from Germany