Tuesday, January 30, 2007

So...
I've mentioned before that I tend to have Bill Murray moments working with all of the Chinese... lots of 'is that really what that says' events... long phone conversations where the result is an abbreviated "he says yes"
The other day, we had a series of emails - and it kept translating one term as 'carboplatin' - a cancer drug... something along the lines of 'we want to encourage our players to buy more cancer drugs'. I figured it out by inference - but it was still amusing and i mentioned the somewhat sketchy nature of the online translator services.

Today, a note back to one of our partners in China included the translated phrase "Today, our team of government payments are capped at you for doing the test."

Needless to say - i was somewhat amused. I went to Cheryl for a better translation - and her response... "What - we're a big multinational corporation - selling cancer drugs and working with governments - i thought you knew"

She's funny... and she screws with me...

Dangerous combination ;)

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