I've always had a good laugh at auto-translated texts. When I just started working at a design center for TV and we came to the subject of user friendly interface design and user manuals, I was shown a manual for a Chinese TV that was translated, not automatically as in that time we barely had the personal PC released, but by a native Chinese speaker with a Chinese-Dutch (or possibly an English-Dutch) dictionary. (This was when I still lived there and worked for a still famous Dutch-based international consumer electronics company) One of the first phrases in the "quick start guide" for the TV sounded something like: "rotate on the force" (remember it was in Dutch, so the actual phrase was "draai aan de kracht.") Anybody any idea what it meant to say before the translation mangled it? Yep, it meant: Turn on the power. Literal translated, there were no wrong words. But a lot of lost meaning. Just an example that perfectly illustrated the shortcomings of translations without context in the languages. Cor.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 11:58 PM Martin WINLOW via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Re: > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 14:12:37 -0500 > From: "EV List Lackey" <evp...@drmm.net <mailto:evp...@drmm.net>> > Subject: World's largest lithium company mass producing solid state batteries > > "...or https://v.gd/S0Z3FF <https://v.gd/S0Z3FF> > > The translation from the Chinese isn't great. I can grok most of it but > have no idea what on earth this is supposed to mean: > > "can be ... loaded at any time” " > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > My take on this: The word ‘loaded’ is common (if confusing) english > translation for many European words that mean ‘charged’ (ie ‘loaded with > electrical energy’). In this context I believe what they are saying is that > the battery chemistry in question has few to no practical (especially > environmental) constraints when it comes to charging eg low or high > temperatures… I may be talking twaddle! > > As for: > "it should not be mass production in the short term. BYD does not need to > fight for eyeballs like other car companies, but pursues technologies that > can be popularized on a large scale at low cost and products that bring > tangible benefits to consumers.” > > I think they may be referring to ‘vision’ as in ‘forward-thinking or > visionary’ as BYD is the very epitome of this compared to most car-makers. > Again, just a guess! > > Regards, Martin Winlow > Isle of Colonsay > Scotland > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220127/1282ed1a/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
