Random Jabber Jibber thread

tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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Grandpapy said:
Years of self-reliance and Ego has to have a some play in the reasoning.

They gained your money so it has worked this far. :lol:
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Interesting hypothesis. Catastrophically shitty English wouldn't seem to warrant those traits, but perhaps you're right. It is definitely their prices that lets them get away with it. I'll overlook just about anything if your price is a third or less of the competition's for similar quality. Maybe if they took a little more care with the language of the folks they are marketing to they could raise their prices. I would only charge them like $50 to write a couple paragraphs of killer copy, I may offer them this service and start a revolution (sans tanks)...


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Dougnsalem

Dougnsalem

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tyler.durden said:
While recently researching companies, many of them Chinese, from which to buy my electric scooter, a question kept coming to mind. Why is the English SO awful when they are marketing to English speakers? I often cannot discern the message they are trying to convey. At all. I mean, if I were marketing to Chinese consumers, I wouldn't ask an acquaintance that 'spoke a little Mandarin' to write my ad copy. I would seek out a native speaker for that, hopefully one who received excellent marks in their native tongue. None of the companies I looked at did this, which leads me to believe that it must be cost prohibitive to hire native English speakers. I guess we priced ourselves right out of the market. I know that's not the reason, but what the real reason for this??? @neosapien ? Anyone? WTF?
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I know what you're saying. I run into the same problem, when I try to buy stuff from the Aussies.....
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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tyler.durden said:
While recently researching companies, many of them Chinese, from which to buy my electric scooter, a question kept coming to mind. Why is the English SO awful when they are marketing to English speakers? I often cannot discern the message they are trying to convey. At all. I mean, if I were marketing to Chinese consumers, I wouldn't ask an acquaintance that 'spoke a little Mandarin' to write my ad copy. I would seek out a native speaker for that, hopefully one who received excellent marks in their native tongue. None of the companies I looked at did this, which leads me to believe that it must be cost prohibitive to hire native English speakers. I guess we priced ourselves right out of the market. I know that's not the reason, but what the real reason for this??? @neosapien ? Anyone? WTF?
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1. They don't really care
2. Their in house (native) translator is good enough. (see #1)
3. The English speaking market isn't big enough to warrant them caring. They may sell to 20 other larger markets (Japanese, Spanish, etc)
4. They don't want to spend the money for a really proficient Mandarin/Cantonese > English translator
 
neosapien

neosapien

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tyler.durden said:
While recently researching companies, many of them Chinese, from which to buy my electric scooter, a question kept coming to mind. Why is the English SO awful when they are marketing to English speakers? I often cannot discern the message they are trying to convey. At all. I mean, if I were marketing to Chinese consumers, I wouldn't ask an acquaintance that 'spoke a little Mandarin' to write my ad copy. I would seek out a native speaker for that, hopefully one who received excellent marks in their native tongue. None of the companies I looked at did this, which leads me to believe that it must be cost prohibitive to hire native English speakers. I guess we priced ourselves right out of the market. I know that's not the reason, but what the real reason for this??? @neosapien ? Anyone? WTF?
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I imagine most of the reasoning is that they think it's good enough. Unless they get an expat living over there to do the advert, the pickings of talented toungued speakers of English is pretty nill. They just struggle with English. So many sounds their vocal cords have just never produced. Even after living with my wife for 11 years, I still don't understand half of what she says. She does have this awesome quality though where she starts to talk to me then just turns and walks away still talking but now towards the complete opposite end of the house and I'm supposed to hear her still.
 
Grandpapy

Grandpapy

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neosapien said:
I imagine most of the reasoning is that they think it's good enough. Unless they get an expat living over there to do the advert, the pickings of talented toungued speakers of English is pretty nill. They just struggle with English. So many sounds their vocal cords have just never produced. Even after living with my wife for 11 years, I still don't understand half of what she says. She does have this awesome quality though where she starts to talk to me then just turns and walks away still talking but now towards the complete opposite end of the house and I'm supposed to hear her still.
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That's a universal dialect in all languages. :D
 
tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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neosapien said:
She does have this awesome quality though where she starts to talk to me then just turns and walks away still talking but now towards the complete opposite end of the house and I'm supposed to hear her still.
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They don't have to be born overseas to do that, trust me.

They also think we can hear them over fans, TVs, stereos, dogs barking, cars running, trains, airport landings, fireworks, thunderstorms, waterfalls, high winds or when they're whispering trying to be discreet about something.

I nod, smile and wink a lot. Usually works except when they were asking about buying something expensive.

"You said it was OK yesterday"

Oops, there goes another $500.
 
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