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This is almost as funny as one of those Japanese instruction manuals
http://engrish.com/

This /. article has been brought to you by Engrish.com, providing quality incomprehensible articles for over a decade!

http://www.engrish.com/

Additionally, I won't buy hardware from a company that openly supports terrorists!

At first, I thought you might be making a reference to Spanglish, and then I thought you might be making a reference to Engrish. Shows how much I know.

but I should have figured "Manglish" also translated to "Engrish"

Stick To Coffee and Alcohol

Yet somehow we still have the cultural phenomenon of Engrish. The Japanese are obsessed with English, to be sure, but they don't actually learn it. Most English teaching in Japan is for show, a status symbol and cultural trend. The actual grasp of the English language for the average Japanese person is very, very poor.

If it takes an entire developement cycle to simply improve the current version's bugs.


Why would you spend a cycle to _improve_ bugs instead of _fixing_ them ?

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http://www.engrish.com/

If you're just now discovering that, this site will probably make you wet your pants.

I don't think I've ever seen an article summary with so many links!

The company I work for has offices in Australia, New Zealand and China so we standardized to engrish.
 
  It nearly works but not quite.

http://www.engrish.com/ Yes, I know it's kind of off topic, but I'm merely providing information related to the parent post, thus making it on topic.

Why do I see a spawn of Engrish.com type sites coming about from using this proxy? At least they're not offering Chinese as one of the languages.

I'm sure this is a slashvertisement, but this is a very cool device. I hope that they can profit where other gaming manufacturers don't: from the hardware itself. Not placing a financial income take in future sales of games is sort of odd, but it makes sense that someone has to try it. Doing so in an OSS sort of way is REALLY bizarre from a competitiveness perspective.

I'll buy one or a dozen of them just as a show of faith. Many of my friends with kids could use an introduction into the great games of my time -- if only someone would make Mattel's Utopia, then I'd be happy.

A few questions that I didn't see on the site:

1. Is it Mac compatible? I assume it is just a basic Mass Storage device on the USB chain.
2. Does anyone have a link to the actual technical specs? I can't find anything on that site about the tech specs, other than the ARM processors.
3. How bright is the screen and how do they get 10 hours out of 2 AA batteries?
4. What is the estimated profit margin per unit? Is the price enough to keep them solvent AND address tech support concerns?
5. Is 320x240 enough? I'm an Action Quake 2 addict, but not sure I can play on 320x240.
6. Can they hire a grammar and spell checker? :) It keeps trying to install the Korean fonts, so I guess they might have an excuse. Bad Engrish is acceptable in some situations. (Do not click this link if you need to be silent in a cubicle, FWIW.)
7. Does anyone want to go in with me to pick up about 100 of these so we can save shipping and make a few bucks on our friends?

I'm pretty happy with the HP iPAQ I received for Christmas, but I'd love to screw around with this thing. Great, another freaking device I'll need a pocket for. I still can't see how they'll be able to fix bad units and support their customers merely on profit from the console sale, but if its built properly and an open source support community props up around it, anything's possible.

They spoke some english. They were ESL students. Whenever you talked with them, you ended up having to slow way down, and simplify your speech.

Nice girls. Very cute. One said she was an electrical engineering student and the other said she was majoring in "eng-eh-er-ish." (She said it with four syllables.) I'm not entirely sure the "english" major understood the question, but then again someone has to go back and provide the world with engrish.

TFA says, Mac subscribers can continue browsing with IE for a month after the support ceases.

Since support officially ends Dec. 31, the article is implying that the app will somehow stop functioning on Jan. 31, 2006.

Does Micro$oft have some kind of "remote-controlled self destruct mechanism" in the app? Unlikely, but why else would the article mention a one-month time limit? This doesn't seem to be the type of thing one can blame on Engrish.

These things make me very proud of being a Japanese, hehe...

These things make me very proud of being a Japanese, hehe...

I'm going to get one of these so I can go visit a cave and eat some butterflies.

Great! Engrish for everybody! (At least judging from the spoken English skills of the average Japanese or Korean...)

• Tap water
• Anything that is actually labeled as a "drink"
• Chicken byproduct puree (darned mad cow disease)
• Anything on this page

"Re have to point it out"

Is that Engrish for "We have to point it out"? How fitting for a manga story...

My, god... the marketing copy on that product hurts my brain to read. Do you think that's Engrish, or just your typical, fresh-out-of-college American marketing "genius?"

Japanese English?

Sony later described the main reason they decided to compete was because the iTunes slogans had a sensible grasp of the English language and would not fly with the Japanese public. Sony PR Manager was quoted saying their slogan would be "Music Sample Download in You!"

What I want to know is if these will operate in Apostle Clusters... or if they are only intended to be used in postmodern Left Behind environments.

No wait, I see they are destined for use in robotics.

You have just purchased $251 million dollars of SCO futures.

Have a nice day.

BTW: Corrected url for engrish.com http://www.engrish.com/

Maybe it's time for them to link engrish.com, for enriching time, make you happy shine adequate fun?

Engrish

Posted Anonymously, no karma whoring for such an obvious link.

engrish galore.

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"Just this even with big robot simply operational!"

Call the guys at Engrish!

On another note, that thing looks as shaky as a carny ride. The driver's gotta be streaking his shorts from fear!

Is just engrish or something? What amount of spam propagation is necessary? Can't the last two words there just be dropped?

I would guess that by now it's sort of a real language. "Engrish can be simply defined as the humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design." From the Engrish FAQ Google has about 235,000 entries for Engrish. A religion in the US only need 50 people....

...good-old engrish.com?

You're going to want to make sure she knows as much English as possible before you go (including slang)

Not just slang, but colorul metaphors as well (do a search on that page for the phrase "cat house".)

That's true.

Or not.

It signs the contract on the bottom line!

That's true.

Or not.

It signs the contract on the bottom line!

But two Rongs make a light.

Engrish!!!

Not noticed everyone -- we're used too much to all reading engrish.

Given that these are the same fucks who busted out the "O-O-O-O-OPTIO!!!!!" commercials, I'd wager that they hired the same guy who routinely suggests Chinese products be labeled with terrible English-language names such as "Homo Sausage."

Apple sues Think Testicles, a competitor of Think Secret...

Do you feel ENJOY !!! Sorry for Disturb

OK

You're going to need a lot of fancy gadgets. They should be at least 1-2 years ahead of the gadgets you can get in the US.

Set this up as the home page.

This seems to be entirely useful. The proposed design looks like they will have a quick dictionary lookup on a word in the language being used with a definition, and cross-reference to the same word in other languages. That could be entirely useful, and anyone who enjoys Engrish might wish to help add that module (mostly for fun), but it looks like this project might actually take some of the mystery out of translation. Perhaps Engrish is going to be a thing of the past?

Spelling suggestion: OpenOffice.org has been translate to Swahili

If it's a search engine meant for/designed by Chinese people, maybe it performs better with search phrases in Engrish?

Signs like "Fish & Chip, $5" or "All player must register before going on ice" are so common here, it kind of makes me sick.

i guess you'll throw up as soon as you see http://www.engrish.com/

What in the hell does that sentence mean? I can handle a couple of spelling or grammatical problems, but seriously!

Engrish. Definitely Engrish. (No offense to my Asian friends, your Engrish is much better than my Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. But it's still funny.)