{"id":2035,"date":"2010-01-08T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2010-01-08T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:01:44","slug":"too-new-to-translate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Too new to translate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/Ozaki1.png\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Thanks to reader JR, we are able to bring you the harmonic convergence of two recent LL memes, namely singing-dancing figurines and the vagaries of machine translation. The English advertising copy for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozaki.us\/en\/iminipet\/\">Ozaki iMini Pet<\/a> (\"Dock + Radio + Alarm + Speakers + Dancing Pet\") is so badly written that it was probably created by a human pretending to be a translator, though it's possible that the human pretended to write a machine-translation program instead:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">iMini is built in the rhythm decoding chip MJ1191 of the programming embedded system, and to integrate the HIPS skeleton; No matter you play any kind of music, MJ1191 always make your pet in dancing for you at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe folks who marketed this product line in Catalonia decided to go with a different strategy &#8212; they reproduced the English-language copy, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.procoinsa1.jazztel.es\/resolucionnormal\/15_Tarifa.pdf\">boasted<\/a> that the iMini is<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">tan nou!! que no ens ha donat temps a traduir la p\u00e0gina, vine a veure'l!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anybody who forks over $99 for one of these is probably not convinced by the ad copy, anyhow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to reader JR, we are able to bring you the harmonic convergence of two recent LL memes, namely singing-dancing figurines and the vagaries of machine translation. The English advertising copy for the Ozaki iMini Pet (\"Dock + Radio + Alarm + Speakers + Dancing Pet\") is so badly written that it was probably created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}