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From: RMcGraw@blomand.net (Robert & Linda McGraw)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:06:59 -0600
I got a chuckle from the Hoover Vacuum cleaner ad that ran in Japan.

In translation from English the ad in Japanese said "Nothing sucks like
a Hoover".

Bob K4TAX


Frank & Barb Ayers wrote:
> 
> >>>Here's a couple of my favorite examples of "Jinglish."
> 
> Usually, I would skip this - but - about 20 years ago I was working with a
> Shimadzu spectrophotometer. It had a constant flow device so that you could
> pump a liquid through it and measure the absorbtion in real time. The
> instructions said -
> 
> 1. Attach fluid input hose to port "A"
> 2. Attach sucktion hose to port "B"              (yes, "sucktion')
> 3. Please adjust until equipment sucks.
> 
> Frank
> W2FCA
> 
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