[OT] Freescale English?

In article <13de17n926n6068@corp.supernews.com>, marcus hall says...
> In article <grOdneDd7eA7ckjbnZ2dnUVZ_vyinZ2d@omsoft.com>,
> Jim Stewart  <jstewart@jkmicro.com> wrote:
> >Anyone watch the Canadian show "How it's Made"?
> >
> >Marvelous show that takes you into factories and
> >shows how things are made.  The dialog appears
> >to have been written in French/Canadian then
> >translated and narrated word-for-word into English.
> >All sorts of amusing little usage and technical mis-
> >translations.
> 
> That was one of my kids' favorite shows a couple of years ago..  They would
> even "play 'How It's Made'"...

I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at.

> Anyhow, the original narration did seem to be word-for-word translated
> to english, with the units still in metric.  It seems that they then added

I didn't get the impression it was badly translated but badly written to 
begin with.

> subtitles for the US broadcast with the imperial units.  Then, later, the
> audio was re-dubbed with imperial units, but the video was not changed back,
> so they had a rather amusing ".. oven at 600 degrees farenheight" with
> some text on the screen "That's 600 F!"..  Well, I found that amusing!..

It gets worse as I remember.  Many of the original units appear to have 
been Imperial and translated into SI with no concept of the precision 
involved.  That 600 F was probably "approximately 321.7 C" in the 
original script.

Robert

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"Paul Burke" <paul@scazon.com> wrote in message 
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> FreeRTOS.org wrote:
>>
>> "than what the 56F8365 has" - why is there a 'what' in that sentence? 
>> Sounds cockney.
>
> Phrasing, my boy. It's not the REAL Santa, it's a Subordinate Claus.
>
> Read it as "needing a little more memory (than what the 56F8365
> has to offer)" - brackets indicating the phrase grouping.

My English teacher would have had kittens at that superfluous "what". It 
should be "needing a little more memory (than the 56F8365 has to 
offer)", of course. The additional "what" does indeed sound cockney, or 
just educationally-challenged.

Anyone watch F1 on ITV in the UK? Mark Blundell does this a lot. "Those 
Ferraris have a bit more grunt than what the McLarens have" etc. Makes 
me cringe every time ;).

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com 

Jim Stewart escribi�:
> Paul Carpenter wrote:
> 
>> Very tongue in cheek for humourously challenged.
>>
>>> Sounds like either english is NOT the writer's original language,
>>> of their cubicle is too close to marketing ;)
>>
>> Probably written by some one with a Media Studies degree. Very UK'ian
>> but I am sure you get the drift.
> 
> Anyone watch the Canadian show "How it's Made"?
> 
> Marvelous show that takes you into factories and
> shows how things are made.  The dialog appears
> to have been written in French/Canadian then
> translated and narrated word-for-word into English.
> All sorts of amusing little usage and technical mis-
> translations.

I'm Spanish, so I'm losing most of the puns here. But I can't resist 
commenting on this: I remember a James Bond's movie, where "Silicon 
Valley" ("Valle del silicio") was mistransalted into Spanish to "Valle 
de la silicona" ("Silicone Valley"). Imagine lots of artificial boobs 
jumping across a valley, and you'll get the picture I got.

"Ignacio G.T." <igtorque.remove@evomer.yahoo.es> writes:
> I'm Spanish, so I'm losing most of the puns here. But I can't resist 
> commenting on this: I remember a James Bond's movie, where "Silicon 
> Valley" ("Valle del silicio") was mistransalted into Spanish to "Valle 
> de la silicona" ("Silicone Valley"). Imagine lots of artificial boobs 
> jumping across a valley, and you'll get the picture I got.

Even we English speakers get that one wrong about half the time!

Isn't Hollywood in Silicone Valley?