15:37 Jan 27 

Dans ce forum, on utilise assez souvent les acronymes
AE = American English et BE = British English,
et GB = bien sûr Grande Bretagne (ou ici, britannique)

15:28 Jan 27 

AE et GB veulent dire quoi?

Comme si le texte anglais n'était pas déjà emmerdant, vous utilisez des acronymes pour me faciliter la vie??? :-)

14:03 Jan 27 

...it looks as if this line is part of your bulleted list, and hence, does not (necessarily) follow on directly from what preceded the list.

But it could be interpreted that way, inasmuch as 'R-values' would be short for 'all the different products in our range with different R-values' — in other words, '[preceding comment] applies to equally well to products with a R value of 123 as to those with an R value of 456'

However, there is another clue that could perhaps render this less likely: if it follows on from 'No formaldehyde is added...', then normal EN usage would require it to be followed by '...to any of our products...' (not 'all') — unlike the case where one might say: "All our products are formaldehyde-free".

I don't know if this use of 'all' would be usual in AE, but it certainly would sound odd to my GB ears!

13:56 Jan 27 

It would be very silly to think like this:

No formaldehyde is added to *All Fiberglass Products and R-Values* since the R-values are not products!!!!!

Poor me...

Au secours! LOL knowing that, in one hour or less, this conundrum WILL be resolved!!

13:51 Jan 27 

Can also Gilles explain his French rendering in view of the above?

Merci

13:50 Jan 27 

I have sent this to my client:

In the last item **All Fiberglass Products and R-Values**, a verb or some other word(s) is/are missing.

Can *you* or someone from Quebec add this verb or other word(s)?

Can *All Fiberglass Products and R-Values* be rewritten differently?

13:48 Jan 27 

As it stands, there is no link between the 2 items; you cannot assume 'high R values' from the source text as given.

Either it is meant to be "products are 100% f/g AND R values are..."
Or something like "all the f/g products and their R values comply with... / certified by..."

There's simply no way of knowing, certainly not for us with no more context to go on; possibly you may glean some clues from the rest of your document, but if not, I'm afraid you have no choice but to... ask your customer!

Another thought did just occur to me, but it's a terribly long shot, and the way your list is formatted doesn't really support the idea; but I suppose it is just possible that it ought to be read as "The foregoing specifications apply to all f/g products and all R values within them" — but the list formatting is not very logical for that interpretation.

13:43 Jan 27 

Suspect missing hyphen

13:41 Jan 27 

Should I then understand *The products are all fiberglass and have large R values*?
How *R-values* is linked to the first 4 words?

13:36 Jan 27 

I don't think there's a verb missing, but there might be something else missing!

Really, you have 2 quite distinct terms here: 'R values' are commonly used in thermal insulation, but I would have expected it to go on to say "R values from 123 to 456"

As for your first term, this is a US document, isn't it? If so, then there's probably a hyphen missing, and you need to read it as 'all-fiberglass products' — in other words, the products (whatever they are, it might help if you told us!) are made of 100% fiberglass; the products are 'all fiberglass' (and nothing else). That would probably then make more sense with what follows.