Need help for a OT translation

POSTED BY: Grimma
UPDATED: Monday, January 3, 2005 00:57
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GRIMMA

Friday, December 31, 2004 11:17 AM

Hi,

I have just received a new memory card for my digital camera and everything is written in Chinese. Well, I guess it's Chinese and not Japanese because there are none of these "simplified" ideograms you find in Japanese (once upon a time I knew the names of these various ways to write).

With the memory card I got a smallish leatherish towel which I guess is destined to clean something... I guess (again and again) it's for the memory card but then the towel is pretty big compared to the card size.

So I have 2 pics of the piece of paper that was with the towel. Maybe there's someone here who could decipher a bit of what's written and give me a clue?

http://commonrotation.free.fr/perso/sandisk1.JPG

http://commonrotation.free.fr/perso/sandisk2.JPG

FFYING2

Saturday, January 1, 2005 2:17 AM

Hi. You're right that it's Chinese, not Japanese (no Japanese hiragana for grammar/verb endings).

It's a cleaning cloth for electronics but NOT for your memory card.

The key part is the gold rounded rectangle in the middle. It tells you the "range of use" is:

LCD screens / camera lenses / equipment main part (like the front of your DVD player, not the delicate inner workings)

shi4yong4 fan4wei2:
ye4jing1ying2mu4 / xiang1ji1jing4tou2 / qi4cai2 zhu3ti3

That red part below is the important message that this is a "high-quality gift" so "please don't sell" it.

you1zhi4 zeng4pin3
qing3wu4 zhuan3shou4

The top is:

Universal ("whole world") Memory Card
Number-one Brand

quan2qiu2 ji4yi4 ka3
di4yi1pin3pai2

gentle and thin fiber
effectively cleans

rou2xi4 xian1wei2
you3xiao4 jie2jing4

CLEANING CLOTH

ca1shi4 bu4
---------------------

The bottom is a bit idiosyncratic:

to reach the service department (?)("straight/correct" "convey" "service")
limitless high quality

zheng4 da2 fu2wu4
wu2xian4 you1zhi4

customer service line: 08...

xiao1fei4zhe3 fu2wu4 xian4 08...

Ying
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GRIMMA

Saturday, January 1, 2005 5:04 AM

Waow, thank you very much! I knew I could count on my fellow Browncoats to help me.

Can you imagine how lost I'd be if I didn't know Firefly? :-D

Thank you again and a happy new year.

FFYING2

Monday, January 3, 2005 12:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Grimma:
Can you imagine how lost I'd be if I didn't know Firefly? :-D

Thank you again and a happy new year.

We'd all be "lost in the woods."

You're welcome, and happy new year, minus a couple days.

Ying