[OT] Freescale English?

I don't see your problem. For blurb it's alright, and merely points out that you can get one with an external bus. Someone should have told the copywriter that he doesn't need to go into raptures tas engineers will know about the generalities already, and to have put in about the specific capabilities like wait state generation, handshake, perhaps DRAM capability if it's got it.

"than what the 56F8365 has" - why is there a 'what' in that sentence? Sounds cockney.

"in your system a parallel fashion" - seems to be a word missing there.

Phrasing, my boy. It's not the REAL Santa, it's a Subordinate Claus.

Read it as "needing a little more memory (than what the 56F8365 has to offer)" - brackets indicating the phrase grouping.

The second phrase is either missing a second "in" or has gathered a surplus "a" - either way it's clear enough to me what the device has to offer.

Interesting. My Radar did react to this (when prompted), but I triggerd more on "a parallel fashion", "is the device for you", " for these additional tasks", "You will still enjoy" [shudder..]

Sounds like either english is NOT the writer's original language, of their cubicle is too close to marketing ;)

-jg

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But everything involving any form of electronics/computing has to have some form of 'experience', so obviously they are only worthwhile if you can also 'enjoy' the 'experience'.

:-^ :-^

Very tongue in cheek for humourously challenged.

Probably written by some one with a Media Studies degree. Very UK'ian but I am sure you get the drift.

Op Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:26:46 GMT schreef FreeRTOS.org:

Sounds Dutch ;-)

Anyone watch the Canadian show "How it's Made"?

Marvelous show that takes you into factories and shows how things are made. The dialog appears to have been written in French/Canadian then translated and narrated word-for-word into English. All sorts of amusing little usage and technical mis- translations.

That was one of my kids' favorite shows a couple of years ago.. They would even "play 'How It's Made'"...

Anyhow, the original narration did seem to be word-for-word translated to english, with the units still in metric. It seems that they then added subtitles for the US broadcast with the imperial units. Then, later, the audio was re-dubbed with imperial units, but the video was not changed back, so they had a rather amusing ".. oven at 600 degrees farenheight" with some text on the screen "That's 600 F!".. Well, I found that amusing!..

marcus hall

I forgot about all the silly units usage. Quoting any small distance measurement in one-hundredths of an inch is particularly annoying.

I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at.

I didn't get the impression it was badly translated but badly written to begin with.

It gets worse as I remember. Many of the original units appear to have been Imperial and translated into SI with no concept of the precision involved. That 600 F was probably "approximately 321.7 C" in the original script.

Robert

My English teacher would have had kittens at that superfluous "what". It should be "needing a little more memory (than the 56F8365 has to offer)", of course. The additional "what" does indeed sound cockney, or just educationally-challenged.

Anyone watch F1 on ITV in the UK? Mark Blundell does this a lot. "Those Ferraris have a bit more grunt than what the McLarens have" etc. Makes me cringe every time ;).

Steve