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Mightiness of Sunlight Bottom

I got a little toy car as a stocking stuffer. It was made in China, as the included instructions make clear. The following is an exerpt of the "safety rules". (To save me the trouble, just assume that there is a "[sic]" after every misspelling and grammatical mistake in the following section. Thanks.):

Safe rule

1. prohibition against 3 years old below of child usage;
2. play attention, you of finger, hair, clothes...etc, don't touch car and wheel, in order to prevent quilt harm;
3. car while ddving not want to by hand grasp it;
4. don't let the remote control close to any fire with car odginal;( such as electric stove, stove beside or mightiness of sunlight bottom)
5. not want the place in danger to play;( such as street, steep slope...etc.)
6. don't let the wet water of car, and not want under the rainy day is open-air usage;
7. not want on the sand ground to play;
8. forbid the child to tear open the remote control with the car;
9. if the car dash to piecesed, and should pass by the per son check or profession personnel maintain the rear can coninue to use.

In addition to these, there are also various pictures with "X"s drawn through them to indicate that you should not do these things. One picutre is of the car under a sun. Another is of the car under a raincloud. Apparently, this toy is only to be used on days that are overcast-but-not-raining.

What the heck are "ddving" and "odginal"? And why are they concerned about "quilt harm"?

Numbers 4 and 9 are my favorites.

I have to believe that the English (if you can call it that) portion of these instructions were produced using machine translation. Otherwise...some poor Chinese-to-English translator is going to have a very short career.

- wink [December 26, 2003 12:09 AM]