Not So Fine Print - Assembly Instructions

I've been thinking of turning my patio into a chemical industry environment, but I don't know how to anglicize it. Any ideas? -right now it's too German to suit me...

OK, color me intrigued. "Patio – chemical industry environment" ?? :confused:
What is it in German? (Use two posts if you exceed the letter limit per post!)
 
Never, never, ever buy a metal shed kit. Ask me how I know this.

I put one of those together many years ago without the use of a power screw driver. I don't think they made electric screw drivers back in the day.I don't remember using a drill with a driver bit either back in those days. It has been many years though. There was not such thing as battery powered hand tools.
 
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Honest to Pete, back when gas grills came out you had to put it together yourself. Fine. There are about 698,000 parts. So, I get to putting some part on that took some time. For real, I turned the page and it said “ before putting on the hamerchlotzer, you must first install the chatacassy.” I think after several explosions and lawsuits they came pre assembled.
I can rebuild solenoid valves, pressure regulators, check valves, etc. but I will never put a gas grill together ever again!
 

English, and American English especially, is among the most difficult of all languages to learn.

Not only does American English include words from nearly every other language and culture on the planet (the great melting pot), but since American English is based on the Queen's English, it started out structured bass-akwards to almost every other language on the planet.

In English we say "He ran away". In almost every other language on the planet that statement would be phrased as "Away He ran". So English grammar is backwards to start with.

Next there is the issue of writing. In English we have an alphabet of 26 characters, plus the ten digits from 0-9.
In the written Chinese language they have nearly 200 distinct different characters. So they are translating from 200 characters to no more than 36 characters (including numbers).

Gee, I wonder why they can't clearly translate their language to ours? Must be that there is something wrong with them... :eek:
 
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OK, color me intrigued. "Patio – chemical industry environment" ?? :confused:
What is it in German? (Use two posts if you exceed the letter limit per post!)


oldbrownhat,

I tend to have a somewhat off-the-wall sense of humor which friends and associates with whom I have in-person contact enjoy, but which apparently doesn't transfer very well to forums and other means of communication. Now you know why my attempts at using it here are rare.

Regards,
Andy
 
oldbrownhat,

I tend to have a somewhat off-the-wall sense of humor which friends and associates with whom I have in-person contact enjoy, but which apparently doesn't transfer very well to forums and other means of communication. Now you know why my attempts at using it here are rare.

Regards,
Andy
LOL. Fair enough. I'll just have to use my imagination... :D
Whatever you do, just don't ask the people that made my gf's lab machine to explain it.
 
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English, and American English especially, is among the most difficult of all languages to learn.

Not only does American English include words from nearly every other language and culture on the planet (the great melting pot), but since American English is based on the Queen's English, it started out structured bass-akwards to almost every other language on the planet.

In English we say "He ran away". In almost every other language on the planet that statement would be phrased as "Away He ran". So English grammar is backwards to start with.

Next there is the issue of writing. In English we have an alphabet of 26 characters, plus the ten digits from 0-9.
In the written Chinese language they have nearly 200 distinct different characters. So they are translating from 200 characters to no more than 36 characters (including numbers).

Gee, I wonder why they can't clearly translate their language to ours? Must be that there is something wrong with them... :eek:


I read once that French can cause problems due to their remarkably small vocabulary compared with English or even German.
 
Grannie always said to never buy any thing that wasn't assembled. If the people that made the parts couldn't assemble it why would I think I could. :D Larry
 

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