Annals of poor translation

Language Log 2017-07-17

Summary:

Below are two pages from the instruction book for a small point and shoot digital camera (the original in Chinese and the corresponding page translated into English). As you can see, the language display has a couple of strange choices. jiǎn Zhōng 简中 ("simplified Chinese [characters]") fán Zhōng 繁中 ("traditional Chinese [characters]") — fán 繁 […]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=33755

Updated:

07/17/2017, 01:15

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

07/17/2017, 01:24

Date published:

07/17/2017, 01:12