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Franc Zabkar

Jan 1, 1970
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How would it be for someone from over here in the western world to write a
manual in Chinese or Japanese?

I'd spend a little cash and hire a professional, or at least someone
who is a fluent native speaker. I wouldn't trash the reputation of my
business by producing incomprehensible documentation.
I am sure it would be full of these types of errors, but in to their
direction. You have to give credit to these people, that they came very far
in the last number of years. As for their engineering, and skills to be able
to developed the mass manufacturing at a very low cost, this alone was a
great accomplishment. I realize that they had a lot of help from the R&D
technology companies from the western world, but they still did a great
accomplishment, considering their historic background.

None of this was ever in question.

BTW, I am not monolingual, but I wouldn't dream of attempting to write
a technical document in my mother tongue. If I did, I have no doubt it
would be full of clangers.


- Franc Zabkar
 
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Franc Zabkar

Jan 1, 1970
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"Rick" <[email protected]> while reading the NewsGroups, found
courage and express out opinion in



For the price you are paying, you should be grateful that a manual
is supplied at all.

Last year I paid AU$2000 for a treadmill and got one lousy scrap of
photocopied paper ... with instructions for a different machine.

I have a bench drill with the word "MACHWERY" on the name plate, ie
the IN has become a W, probably because of bad handwriting. The
manufacturer couldn't be bothered to get his own name right.


- Franc Zabkar
 
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Franc Zabkar

Jan 1, 1970
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Well, it shouldn't be hard for english speakers to write decent manuals in
English.


I did actually mean that, perhaps I should've added "can't find someone
like that, for the price they are willing to pay".

There is no need to find someone to *write* the manual, only to *proof
read* it. The labour cost for the former would be low, as it would be
done within the PRC.


- Franc Zabkar
 
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Rick

Jan 1, 1970
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Parmin said:
"Rick" <[email protected]> while reading the NewsGroups, found
courage and express out opinion in


For the price you are paying, you should be grateful that a manual
is supplied at all.

If you are willing to purchase the item at lower rate, you should
be willing to receive less than perfect service.

Relative to total design, manufacturing and marketing costs,
the cost to proofread a manual is infinitesimal.

Like I said, it's sheer laziness. Nothing else.
 
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The Real Andy

Jan 1, 1970
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Hey, I have seen English (Aus, US, UK) manuals that are not much
better..
 
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Franc Zabkar

Jan 1, 1970
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Now, if you found a chinese made product with a clear, concise, accurate and
syntactically correct manual, now THAT would by newsworthy! :)

The manual does not appear to have any spelling errors. Does that rate
a mention?


- Franc Zabkar
 
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NSM

Jan 1, 1970
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Franc Zabkar said:
The manual does not appear to have any spelling errors. Does that rate
a mention?

God bless the Microsoft spell checker?

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