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Re: "Chinlish" or English?

Subject: Re: "Chinlish" or English?
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: M -dot- Vina-Baltsas -at- mindray -dot- com, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:13:51 -0700

It's "Chinglish," and I would think if your company hires tech writers and/or editors in the US and has documents reviewed by the US project team, then it's doing that because it wants problems in the overseas generated documents corrected?

As for the specific examples, here's what I would do for them:

1) Patient actions may affect oral temperature measurements for up to 20 minutes:

* Ingesting hot or cold liquids
* Eating food
* Chewing gum
* Brushing teeth
* Smoking
* Strenuous activities

2) Flip a coin.

3) Use the reviewer's version

Gene Kim-Eng


On 8/28/2014 6:10 AM, M -dot- Vina-Baltsas -at- mindray -dot- com wrote:

Our manuals are written in China. Once we receive them in the US, we send
them to our project team for their comments/edits. One reviewer had the
following comments, among MANY others. I'm wondering what you all think
about them.


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