Instructions from China

[John K5PRO]

This note was in a generic printer toner package I got. I think I understand it:
"The temperature and humidity sudden change can affect the toner cartridge printing quality. Please lay aside after the room temperature for 4 hours, again to open the packing at least."

Attached is the instructions for a CCD camera. Note especially the Warnings, and the FCC statement!

[flintstone mop]

They still cannot spell and cannot construct a simple sentance.
Geeesh OUR Tom Vu does better than that!

[W1AEX]

Good to see that our Chinese Overlords are up-to-speed with the "FCC 15th chapter of stipulation". It's very reassuring to see how serious they are about compliance with all the details of our rules and regulations to prevent "the vicious attack on the commercial field".

[kb3ouk]

Reading that gave me a headache from trying to figure out what they were trying to say.

[K1JJ]

Just think how many Yuan we could make in China as an Engrish technicar manuar consurtant.   

But maybe their DIY attitude is what keeps plices row.

T

[KA0HCP]

How is your Mandarin fluency? 

[WA3VJB]

Hey at least they tried.

I picked up a Baw Fung handheld for $35 and the "manual" doesn't even struggle to provide programming instructions.  They just point to the buttons.

Yer on yer own.

Please to be turning knob counter-clockwisedly until crick is heard. Anti-direction furthers the volume.

[N0WEK]

Just think how many Yuan we could make in China as an Engrish technicar manuar consurtant.   

But maybe their DIY attitude is what keeps plices row.

T

You wouldn't have to read or speak Mandarin, somebody is already doing the translation; all you would need is a decent high school graduate to fix all the syntax errors and such, and whip it into standard English.

[WA9NQW]

Depending on your interest level, one can burn a lot of time looking at Chinese English here. http://www.engrish.comhttp://

Some pretty funny stuff.

73,
Jack

[KL7OF]

English speaking people....especially those in the USA, are the least likely to learn a foreign language....We simply resist... and a lot of us claim that everyone else should learn to speak English....Those multi lingual instruction sheets that come with most all products these days are necessary in a global economy....
  English is the standard language for Air Traffic Control on this planet....If you can't speak English, you can't be an Airline Transport Pilot that flies internationally...
I have heard some very interesting conversations on the aircraft radio when two people from non English speaking countries try to  speak English to each other.....There are of course standard terms in use in the aircraft control world, but it can get interesting when a pilot from Texas (drawl) talks to approach control in Singapore....
  We may all have to learn Chinese sooner or later.....

[W2VW]

I picked up a Baw Fung

Go to the doctor and get it lanced off.

[Steve - K4HX]

Mandarin is not needed. That was Engrish.

http://engrish.com

[Opcom]

If that camera is the kind with the ring of IR diodes around the lens, be careful not to casually stare at it.
Just because it is not bright does not mean it is not intense and can not damage the eye.

In the dark, the ring of LEDS may appear a barely visible dull red. If you look close up to the LED with a magnifier you may see the dull red glow on the die, but don't do that.

It may be 100,000 times as bright as you see it to be.
Depends on which 750-850nm LEDs were cheapest that day.

The eye does not react because it does not detect the intensity. It is the reaction of the muscles and mechanisms of the eye that we feel when we look at the sun and they strain. We do not feel the damage until it is greater or pronounced. It is also why invisible lasers are so dangerous. No warning and no reaction.

brightness normalized to 555nm:

    532 nm    .885      "             Green frequency doubled Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO4
    543.5 nm  .974      "             Green HeNe laser
    550 nm    .995     Yellow-green
    555 nm   1.000      "             Reference (peak) wavelength
    567 nm    .969      "             Green line of Helium-Mercury laser
    568 nm    .964      "             Y-G line of some krypton ion lasers
    578 nm    .889     Yellow         Gold line of copper vapor laser
    580 nm    .870      "
    594.1 nm  .706     Orange-yellow  Yellow HeNe laser
    600 nm    .631     Orange
    611.9 nm  .479     Red-orange     Orange HeNe laser
    615 nm    .441      "             Orange line of Helium-Mercury laser
    627 nm    .298      "             Orange line of Gold Vapor Laser
    632.8 nm  .237     Orange-red     Red HeNe laser
    635 nm    .217      "             Laser diode (DVD, newer laser pointers)
    640 nm    .175      "                 "
    645 nm    .138      "                 "
    647.1 nm  .125     Red            Red line of krypton or Ar/Kr ion laser
    650 nm    .107      "             Laser diode (DVD, newer laser pointers)
    655 nm    .082      "             Laser diode
    660 nm    .061      "                 "
    670 nm    .032      "             Laser diode (UPC scanners, old pointers)
    680 nm    .017      "
    685 nm    .0119    Deep red
    690 nm    .0082     "
    694.3 nm  .006      "             Ruby laser
    700 nm    .0041    Border IR
    750 nm    .00012   Near IR
    780 nm    .000015   "             CD player/CDROM/LaserDisc laser diode
    800 nm    3.7*10-6   "             Laser diodes for pumping Nd:YAG, Nd:YVO4
    850 nm    1.1*10-7   "
    900 nm    3.2*10-9   "
  1,047 nm    ?          "            Nd:YLF laser (for reference only - ed.)
  1,064 nm    3*10-14    "             Nd lasers (including YAG)

No regulator demands any warning on these IR illuminators, but but no one with any sense stares into the 30 LEDs of a cheap flashlight.

[W3RSW]

Good point and relative / perceived intensity chart.

Concerning Mandarin or Japanese, I think you have to learn to think in pictures coupled to concepts.  Even a very short version of Kanji requires recognizing 3000 basic concepts, immediately and with little error.   Similar to our reading of sentence structure and word placement, the meaning of a pictograph may vary depending on the others proceeding and following.

Looking at dual Chinese / English shop signs, instructions,  n'stuff it's amazing how few Chinese characters convey the same English thought.

And you wonder why many Oriental Asians have such high IQ's; intriguing how their minds must be wired in such a pictorial environment since birth.  For them to overcome such a cultural divide by duality of communication concepts shows even better their intelligence.

...capish?

Wow, we think we're hot if we can make a little sense among the Romance languages.

[W1AEX]

I picked up a Baw Fung handheld for $35 and the "manual" doesn't even struggle to provide programming instructions.  They just point to the buttons.

I think you got ripped off Paul. Although the written manual is quite an adventure in translation, my Baofeng came with the beautiful Baofeng girl voice assistant who helps you when you are playing with your Baofeng. She is very perky and very polite but she doesn't make very good coffee.

Rob W1AEX

[WA3VJB]

I think you got ripped off Paul.

Rob W1AEX

Yeah Rob, this one tells me LOCK and UNLOCK in a rather authoritative, bossy voice. Might be an older BFB, and maybe it's her mom.

Maybe I should worry about needing it lanced.

[KB2WIG]

"Maybe I should worry about needing it lanced."

Sharks with lazers.


klc

[W3RSW]

Both your doors are ajar.

[W1AEX]

My all time favorite Chinese instructions are on the bottom of the BaoFeng charger. As in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" it looks like "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Rob W1AEX

[k7yoo]

"Playing with your Baofeng" just sounds wrong.

[WA3VJB]

My all time favorite Chinese instructions are on the bottom of the BaoFeng charger.
Rob W1AEX

Mine says:
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

[W3RSW]

Oh that's soooo old.

[W1AEX]

Mine says:
"All Your Base Are Belong To Us"

Paul, I'm pretty sure that this famous quote should actually read as:

"機関士：何者かによって、爆発物が仕掛けられたようです。"