De l'autre côté/Fürchterliche Freunde (a series of surreal french animated shorts)

Welcome to the 2010s! Haha. :smile:

Here’s a quick sample of something from China. (Note the mysterious characters that apparently mean Belgium.)

You can also read manuals in Japanese and such, at least if you’re not going for deep understanding. It approaches or these days possibly even surpasses the clarity of people-generated Chinglish/Jinglish.

Edit: but it can’t deal with this circular text:

Edit 2: actually clear text for comparison. The translation is basically flawless here, and I was just holding the paper up in the air instead of putting it down on a flat surface. I had no idea the Chinese manual said this “before installing and using …. read the instructions for use” stuff because the English “startup guide” doesn’t feature that text. The actual content is the same.

Anyway, in this case with an available professional Sony translation it’s an impressive if senseless demonstration, but I’ve had some Chinese/Japanese stuff where this was actually really cool to have available.

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