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Offline Prophet

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Some engrish I encountered...
My aunt was visiting russia recently. She brought a couple of neat flaslights from there. They are those thingys that require no batteries, you just pump the trigger with your hand and behold there is light. You are science geeks so you know what I'm talking about.


It's from Russia, so it works and is quite handy. But then I took a look what it says in the box. As you might have quessed, the text didn't make a whole lot of sense. So I thought that I'd share it with you... :)


Sorry about the image size. While I'm bored enought to post them, I'm still lazy enought not to resize them. :p
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Offline Night Hammer

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
lol

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Offline Mefustae

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Constantly using this health torch, it can benefit to your palm, arm and shoulder stretching and circulation, so as to let your hands relax and brain clever, hand and brain coordinate and promote your brain memory and health composition
That's one ****ing awesome torch. I must have one!

 

Offline Wobble73

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What's wrong with this??? Makes perfect sense to me!!!!





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Offline Taristin

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
New technology? Where you have to squeeze the handle to generate electricity? :wtf: That's not new at all. The Germans had them in WWII!
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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
The new part must be this:

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Constantly using this health torch, it can benefit to your palm, arm and shoulder stretching and circulation, so as to let your hands relax and brain clever, hand and brain coordinate and promote your brain memory and health composition

Plus, it has no bulb... but I wouldn't count LED technology as "new"... :rolleyes:

 :lol:

Which reminds me, I once bought a pointing led laser just for the fun typo I found in the description: It manifested that it had light power of 3 MW...

If you know anything of wickedlasers you know that 300 mW (milliWatts) is already quite a monster as bright light is considered; So now (according to the description) I own a 3 MEGAWATT pointing laser...  :lol:

Of course I know it meant three mW, but it was so hilarious to read in the shop that I decided to simply buy it to have the description. :D


EDIT: My God (though I have none)! Those guys at wickedlasers have created the SGreen or something like that!



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« Last Edit: September 15, 2006, 12:05:33 pm by Herra Tohtori »
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Offline Mongoose

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
That deserves to get on Engrish.com :lol:

And Herra?  Daaaaaamn...  :eek2:

 

Offline Gortef

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
:lol:
Habeeb it...

 

Offline Col. Fishguts

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EDIT: My God (though I have none)! Those guys at wickedlasers have created the SGreen or something like that!

 :eek2:

The professor in our "Laser Physics" lecture had one of those babies. You can use the thing to point at stars ... ****ing epic.
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Offline Ulala

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I should get one for my airsoft gun.  :nervous:
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Offline Tyrian

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I've gotta get the description off the chopsticks packaging at this Chinese restaurant I go to...It's hilarious.

Oh yeah...I don't think we should let Goober see the box in this thread...Ever.   :nervous:
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Offline ZylonBane

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Heh, those poor ignorant sods, using the word "torch" to describe a flashlight.
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Offline Roanoke

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Heh, those poor ignorant sods, using the word "torch" to describe a flashlight.

what's up woth that ?  :wtf:

 

Offline Ulala

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Right, but it's a colored flashlight.  :P
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Offline Ransom

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This product is a new science and technology product and made with high and new science and technology.
It's powered by pure science!

 

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It's powered by pure science!

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Offline Taristin

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"I blinded myself... with science!"
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Offline WMCoolmon

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made with high and new science technology

That explains a lot.
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Offline TopAce

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
Heh, those poor ignorant sods, using the word "torch" to describe a flashlight.

Actually, the British (and the Australians, too, I think) use torch to mean flashlight.

Anyway, I have never understood why you are making fun of bad grammar by non-native speakers of English. Believe me, people all around the world can find mistakes in (and make fun of) your speech of any foreign language (foreign, in the sense it's not your mother tongue). You may find forming sentences in English overly simple, meanings of words are probably blatant and trivial, but it's because you are native speaker of it. When I was a six-year-old, I also thought my mother tongue was easy, logical, and did not understand why others cannot speak/write it. I was like 10 when I suddenly understood the reasons. You guys are certainly more mature than that.
This is not something to make fun of. It's as much as throwing tomato at the disabled for not moving out of your way as you approach. If you don't believe me, start learning a foreign language, preferably not a Germanic language, just to make sure you're learning a language not within the same family as English. You'll understand how wrong you were.
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Offline ZylonBane

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Re: Some engrish I encountered...
Heh, those poor ignorant sods, using the word "torch" to describe a flashlight.
Actually, the British (and the Australians, too, I think) use torch to mean flashlight.

Gosh, really?  :doubt:
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