What are you doing today?

[connorlindeman]

Judge: Young man, you deserve to lose 4 points for doing what you did.
Connor: Don't you know who I am? I'm the TFF Fish of the Month Contest Czar!
Judge: Case dismissed.

Thats exactly how it went down.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

So umm... As you can see today I've been shopping on amazon, and trying to plan stuff with my tank, but I keep seeing weird stuff...

Just try to read this and make sense of it... I got a headache from it
(No, the package should NOT have water?? Its a hose connection!!)
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"Water change hook" sounds like something you send the rookie out to the truck to find. But I'm glad to see that it is suitable for most of long water (with proper mouth at the end, of course). And wow, both fish tank and aquarium can be used!

Sometimes I begin to suspect that the people who write these ads aren't native English speakers...

 

[gwand]

We are heading out to Los Angeles to spend Thanksgiving week with my son. I fed my fish a little extra this week in preparation for their week long fast. I will perform water changes in all five tanks today.

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy09]

That looks nice . Do I see watersprite floating in there ?

Yes you do! I love it so much. It has really grown!

 

[Rocky998]

"Water change hook" sounds like something you send the rookie out to the truck to find.

LOL
I wanted to see if there were any cheaper versions of the "python hook" but the only trustable option seems to be the python version
I just hope it's a 3/4 inch connection on it.
Haven't found the size it is yet which is confusing

But I'm glad to see that it is suitable for most of long water (with proper mouth at the end, of course). And wow, both fish tank and aquarium can be used!

As I read it, I looked away and rubbed my eyes thinking the words were getting shuffled in my head but then I realized that the thing I was reading was just all screwed up
(Rare occurrence, its usually the other way around )

Sometimes I begin to suspect that the people who write these ads aren't native English speakers...

Oh for sure.
I wish the people that other people choose to write something in a different language were looked into more thoroughly lol

 

[WhistlingBadger]

LOL
I wanted to see if there were any cheaper versions of the "python hook" but the only trustable option seems to be the python version
I just hope it's a 3/4 inch connection on it.
Haven't found the size it is yet which is confusing



As I read it, I looked away and rubbed my eyes thinking the words were getting shuffled in my head but then I realized that the thing I was reading was just all screwed up
(Rare occurrence, its usually the other way around )

Oh for sure.
I wish the people that other people choose to write something in a different language were looked into more thoroughly lol

...or hire a native English speaker to proofread. Maybe I'll try to get that job when I retire from teaching.

 

[Rocky998]

...or hire a native English speaker to proofread. Maybe I'll try to get that job when I retire from teaching.

That too! Lol.

That would be a cool job to have!

 

[WhistlingBadger]

That too! Lol.

That would be a cool job to have!

I used to look at engrish.com a lot, so I have some training.

 

[GaryE]

...or hire a native English speaker to proofread. Maybe I'll try to get that job when I retire from teaching.

I've done that job, here and there and off and on. It's like herding mice at a crossroads - there's no stopping more and more and more of it. I would love to know if English speaking companies make as much of a mess of it when they translate into or write in Mandarin.

It gets wild. I edited for an Arabic speaker who had French as a second language, and was convinced beyond a doubt that while he couldn't speak English, he could recognize any mistranslation his online program coughed out. Trust me, he was wayyyy over confident. He decided fixes weren't worth paying for, so off we went. If AI steals from his website, we're all doomed.