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Inducktion
Tue May 08 2012, 07:39PM Print
Inducktion Registered Member #3637 Joined: Fri Jan 21 2011, 11:07PM
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Sometimes I wonder how stuff even works in chinese-made electronics...
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Thomas W
Tue May 08 2012, 07:41PM
Thomas W Registered Member #3324 Joined: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:57PM
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 		oh god, i still dont understand why they dont get proof readers ...
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testtest
Tue May 08 2012, 07:47PM
testtest Registered Member #3271 Joined: Mon Oct 04 2010, 02:29AM
Location: Canada
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Tom Williamson wrote ...

oh god, i still dont understand why they dont get proof readers ...
Or simply copy the generic warning from another device. I would think they have several others that were reversed enginnered.
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Alex M
Tue May 08 2012, 08:19PM
Alex M Registered Member #3943 Joined: Sun Jun 12 2011, 05:24PM
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 		lol

What device is that inside of? Looks a bit like a SMPS for something.
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m4ge123
Tue May 08 2012, 09:59PM
m4ge123 Registered Member #4118 Joined: Mon Oct 03 2011, 04:50PM
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 		Probably an ATX PSU.
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hsieh
Wed May 09 2012, 12:46AM
hsieh Registered Member #1412 Joined: Thu Mar 27 2008, 04:07PM
Location: Taipei Taiwan
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 		I know that many people in here in Taiwan just use Google translate to translate Chinese to English and didn't check what they get before using it.

Many of my classmates think that English is something very difficult to learn and understand.
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haxor5354
Wed May 09 2012, 02:00AM
haxor5354 Registered Member #2063 Joined: Sat Apr 04 2009, 03:16PM
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 		an ethernet cable crimping tool that i bought from china last month.

1336528829 2063 FT138093 485866 10150848320266223 638811222 12192819 142798580 N
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Tetris
Wed May 09 2012, 03:00PM
Tetris Registered Member #4016 Joined: Thu Jul 21 2011, 01:52AM
Location: Gainesville, FL
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 		*posts both images to engrishfails part of memebase*

I've seen one (not on an electronic thing) in the Athens Airport:

In case of emergency, brake (instead of break) glass.
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Bored Chemist
Wed May 09 2012, 08:23PM
Bored Chemist Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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 		Are you all sufficiently fluent in Chinese to translate back again?
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Conundrum
Wed May 09 2012, 10:26PM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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 		Interestingly, I've seen this on cheap power supplies.
A lot of destruction (instruction) manuals for stuff on ebay have Engrish manuals where no attempt has been made to fix spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

-A
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