English Must Not Be Their First Language - Page 2

candys mine · ‎08-20-2012

Yet another reason for Proofreading. Admitting that I am not the bes writer. That is amusing on the surface because it is not conveying a helpful message.

More directly is is not amusing because it is directly sabotaging the effort to sell a product.

The Selller has, by not having their add proof read LOST PROFIT.

It is a fact. People will judge. They must make choices to survive and taken at face value, the words of the seller themselves may make people NOT want their product.

If a Million people read that product description and just 25% do not buy it BECAUSE of That Descriptopn that is 250,000 units of product unsold directly because of the writing.

Cats3000 · ‎10-07-2013

I'm not sure that English is the first language in the US, either. Some stuff I read is garbled garbage.

songbird · ‎03-21-2010

At least it's in English. It could be only in Mandarin. Native: 873 million 2nd: 178 million TOTAL: 1.051 billion speak this. If a bunch of Aliens came to earth to study our language. Mandarin would be the language of Earthlings.

caroln242 · ‎02-25-2020

@Cats3000 wrote:
I'm not sure that English is the first language in the US, either. Some stuff I read is garbled garbage.

Amen to that!

Man plans. God laughs.

Buffalogal47 · ‎07-14-2010

@PickyPicky3: I guess it depends on the language. Asian languages like Chinese or Turkish, to name 2, have a completely different sentence structure than Indo-European languages like English so it is very difficult to translate them. I suspect the computer does word-for-word translations so they often make no sense. The old cliche, "loses something in the translation" comes to mind.

Still Raining · ‎03-30-2014

I have seen that too. Just have to work with it.

BF teaches researches and catalogues Chinese. I was floored that she has a lot of problems with ancient script.

Vivian · ‎03-11-2010

As a lifelong student of studying the French language, I long ago learned that direct translations are impossible, and often quite funny. When translating, it's important to turn to those who have direct and exact knowledge of the language.