The Last Person.....

[MJS]

Well, alright Carol, I'll take a few of your Spanish speaking coustomers off your hands so your night goes better. Just realize, most of my grasp of the Spanish language came from Cheech and Chong movies.

Hey, don't feel bad. Mine came from some guys I used to work with in the warehouse. Of course, the majority of it consists of swears! LOL!

 

[bluemtn]

LOL!!

Ahhh...I'm at the really rough point in my work.

I've done all the work for my English-speaking customers, now I'm on to the issues of my Spanish speaking customers. That always goes much more slowly.

I know how you feel. I'm not fluent in spanish, but I know quite a lot- 2 years of spanish in High school, 2 sister- in- laws (1 is an EX-in- law) are both from Mexico. It gets a bit jumbled when they start talking fast (to me they are).

 

[Carol]

Well, alright Carol, I'll take a few of your Spanish speaking coustomers off your hands so your night goes better. Just realize, most of my grasp of the Spanish language came from Cheech and Chong movies.

Ahhh...maybe thats not so good then.

It's funny, I have a customer in Mexico that insists on speaking in English when they communicate with us. Normally I wouldn't mind but...not everyone there speaks English as fluently as the main contacts. So...I get reports from them that look like they written in Spanish then dumped in an online translator and the English posted in.


"I also send the (proprietary information), appearances the menu it is not listened and to be able to carry out the deviations we need to type phone *21 number and it is this way successful"

I have no idea what he's trying to say!

 

[Carol]

I know how you feel. I'm not fluent in spanish, but I know quite a lot- 2 years of spanish in High school, 2 sister- in- laws (1 is an EX-in- law) are both from Mexico. It gets a bit jumbled when they start talking fast (to me they are).

Fortunately I don't have to do much live conversation because I have an aweful time with speech. Nearly all of what I do is over e-mail so that makes it easier. I can cheat and use dictionaries

 

[bydand]

Well, I'm sorry to "date" everyone. I still have no clue as to who he is, and I assumed (bad word, bad word!) that he was a she by the name and the fact that "knits" followed the name. Also, don't forget I'm still sick. So if I ask a stupid question somewhere, anywhere on the forum, just nudge me and lead me the right way. I'll get there eventually.

Football player from the 70's if I recall the time period right. Here is a photo of a book he had out during that timeframe.

 

[Carol]

Hey, don't feel bad. Mine came from some guys I used to work with in the warehouse. Of course, the majority of it consists of swears! LOL!

That we can use around here sometimes

 

[Carol]

Football player from the 70's if I recall the time period right. Here is a photo of a book he had out during that timeframe.

That's just TOO COOL.

 

[bydand]

"I also send the (proprietary information), appearances the menu it is not listened and to be able to carry out the deviations we need to type phone *21 number and it is this way successful"

What's wrong with that? Clear as mud! I feel for you trying to deal with that type of correspondence, it would drive me crazy.

 

[bluemtn]

Football player from the 70's if I recall the time period right. Here is a photo of a book he had out during that timeframe.

Thanks for showing me! I think I've seen his picture once, somewhere along the way...

 

[Carol]

What's wrong with that? Clear as mud! I feel for you trying to deal with that type of correspondence, it would drive me crazy.

What is really funny is trying to find a way to tell the customer: please do NOT speak in English! :rofl:

 

[bluemtn]

What is really funny is trying to find a way to tell the customer: please do NOT speak in English! :rofl:

All I can say is, I'm SOOOOOO sorry! Which of you to be sorry for, is what I haven't figured out yet. It looked like they did the old fashioned way- open the Spanish- English translation dictionary.

 

[bydand]

Well it's bedtime for a couple of the Ruffians. So I'll be back later everybody. 2 down, 2 to go! Wonder what they will pick for a story tonight? Knowing the youngest, it will be the SAME story he has chosen the last 5 nights in a row (I am starting to really dislike Clifford.) It wouldn't be bad if he chose a different Clifford book each night, but it is the same story. I guess i was the same way with my favorite book at the tender age of 3 (Mine was the story of "Ping" the duck on the Yangsee (sp?) river.) Still remember that book like it was yesterday and not 40 years ago.

 

[Carol]

All I can say is, I'm SOOOOOO sorry! Which of you to be sorry for, is what I haven't figured out yet. It looked like they did the old fashioned way- open the Spanish- English translation dictionary.

LOL! That's OK. It will all be fine once someone that speaks either language fluently can tell me what they need.

Some of those online translators are funny though. Sometimes they are reallly good and sometimes they are way offf!

 

[bluemtn]

LOL! That's OK. It will all be fine once someone that speaks either language fluently can tell me what they need.

Some of those online translators are funny though. Sometimes they are reallly good and sometimes they are way offf!

You'll run into a lot of that, especially how the language is "structured". A lot of it is literal translation for Spanish, and you just have to take into account our slang when you translate. It can get confusing or funny at times!

 

[Drac]

OK Drac, gimme your nightstick. LOL! :whip1:

NO..I prefer a bare hand...

 

[Drac]

Good Evening Dark Lords and Ladies-Who-Seek-The-Light....

 

[Carol]

You'll run into a lot of that, especially how the language is "structured". A lot of it is literal translation for Spanish, and you just have to take into account our slang when you translate. It can get confusing or funny at times!

Structure is OK, I speak enough of the language to understand it. Slang is a problem....jargon is the biggest issue!

One of our customers e-mailed me in Spanish. I don't start my day untl late afternoon so my boss put the e-mail through an online translator to see if the issue was urgent.

The translation started as "I noticed something when I marked my cell phone" and got less understandable from there.

I was laughing out loud when my boss was asking about "marking a cell phone".

In Spanish the verb marcar means "to mark" and all the online translators use this verb as "to mark."

BUT....marcaralso means (essentially) "to dial"...which is a very important verb in our business!

So...what the guy was really trying to do was say he noticed something CALLED his cell phone. Big difference

 

[bluemtn]

Welcome back Drac!

 

[Carol]

Good Evening Dark Lords and Ladies-Who-Seek-The-Light....

Good Evening Drac

 

[Drac]

The temp is dropping up here..Leaving the silk PJ's in the drawer and breaking out the flannels..