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Thread poster: Robert Such
jyuan_us United States Local time: 12:40 Member (2005) English to Chinese + ...
interesting points
Aug 10, 2020
Wai Hin Lee wrote: For example, one multinational homeware company uses very weird marketing script. It is as if someone is speaking English in Chinese characters. [Edited at 2020-08-10 09:46 GMT]
Interesting points but can you elaborate on this point: "It is as if someone is speaking English in Chinese characters." I just couldn't get how they would do it.
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Wai Hin Lee Hong Kong Local time: 00:40 Member (2020) English to Chinese + ...
word-for-word translation
Aug 10, 2020
jyuan_us wrote:
Interesting points but can you elaborate on this point: "It is as if someone is speaking English in Chinese characters." I just couldn't get how they would do it.
It seems to me that some of the scripts are translated word-for-word, adopting the English way of thinking and the sentence structures of the original texts, only replacing the English terms with Chinese words, without considering the reading habits of Chinese readers. That's what I meant by "speaking (or more accurately, writing) English in Chinese characters".
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