[quote=“Taiwan Immigrayshun Agunshey”]TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The National Immigration Agency selected a winning English-language slogan submitted by an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Keelung, reports said Tuesday.
In order to strengthen its service image, the government’s immigration department conducted a search on the Internet from May 14 to June 30 for the best Chinese-language and English-language slogans.
Fifth-grade girl student won the English part of the competition with “NIA care what you care!”[/quote]
First thing I saw this morning when I opened the paper. My boss asked me why I was screaming.
The worst part is that you are supposed to feel bad because you are criticizing a 10 year old. Yes, I am all for encouragement, but from there to official national use, well, there is a gap.
Since it was such an international competition, and each slogan “was accompanied by detailed explanations as to its significance” (sic), I need an explanation.
Furthermore, reminds me of my previous job where we were told not too critizice the local authors too much or change their stuff too much or else they would become discouraged and not work for us anymore…
[quote=“Icon”]
Furthermore, reminds me of my previous job where we were told not too critizice the local authors too much or change their stuff too much or else they would become discouraged and not work for us anymore…[/quote]
Hand to G_d, this is a verbatim transcript.
“Look, the engineers are complaining about your revision. They say they can’t get their work done because you’re marking too many errors for correction.”
“Uh, sorry, I’m a little confused, have I been marking errors that aren’t wrong?”
“Oh no, the errors are there.”
“Ummmm, OK, well, so…I’m sorry, what’s the problem?”
“You’re marking too many errors.”
“And…you want me to…what?”
“Oh, just mark fewer errors.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Just mark fewer errors.”
“I’m afraid you’re going to have to tell me which errors I am to identify and which I’m to ignore.”
“Uh, OK, just do spelling and grammar.”
In one of my editing projects, my department head got a complaint from a Taiwanese customer that a paper I edited was “riddled with glaring grammatical errors”. Of course, he didn’t point them out. So I was asked to check it. I read through it, and found no problems. I asked my colleague, also a native speaker, to read through it too. No problems. We reported that we could find no problems, and asked if the client could specifically point out the supposed errors. No reply.
Yeah, I had that before on a freelance gig. The US-“educated” dept. head sent back a draft, like 15 pages or something. On the first page, I had constructed some kind of inversion, a form with which she was apparently unfamiliar. In typical TW managment (and especially, sorry, ladies, female TW management) style, she came back to me saying a complete redraft was called for. I asked why, and she cited the sentence described. I countered that the structure was perfectly acceptable, and please go on to the next problem, she insisted there were numerous errors on each page, I asked for at least one or two more, she refused to give a specific example, bla bla, back and forth until she finally admitted she’d just read to the first one and hadn’t the time to read through “the whole thing” but STILL maintained that a redraft was necessary.
I was younger then, and considerably higher on the piss/vinegar index, so I said I’d be glad to do a redraft if she could just identify what was wrong.
“It’s full of errors!”
“But you just told me you haven’t read through it.”
“That’s right, but there’s this problem here on the first page!”
“But I told you that’s a perfectly acceptable construction, and you agreed, right?”
“Yes.”
“Sooooo…?”
“It still needs a redraft.”
[quote]The National Immigration Agency (NIA) under the Ministry of the Interior is throwing a multicultural “Foreign Idol” singing competition in six languages and holding auditions in a most innovative way — by making contestants call their special phone lines and belt away. By turning the phone into a microphone and the call recording device into audio clips, the NIA is urging citizens of all countries to sing a song that best displays the love for their homeland. Auditions officially began on October 10, according to the NIA.
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The top prize for the winner is NT$150,000 in cash as well as the chance to score a contract with a talent agency. For more information, visit: www.immig.com.tw.[/quote] chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati … NIA-to.htm
[quote]The National Immigration Agency (NIA) under the Ministry of the Interior is throwing a multicultural “Foreign Idol” singing competition in six languages and holding auditions in a most innovative way — by making contestants call their special phone lines and belt away. By turning the phone into a microphone and the call recording device into audio clips, the NIA is urging citizens of all countries to sing a song that best displays the love for their homeland. Auditions officially began on October 10, according to the NIA.
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The top prize for the winner is NT$150,000 in cash as well as the chance to score a contract with a talent agency. For more information, visit: immig.com.tw.[/quote] chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati … NIA-to.htm
[quote]The National Immigration Agency (NIA) under the Ministry of the Interior is throwing a multicultural “Foreign Idol” singing competition in six languages and holding auditions in a most innovative way — by making contestants call their special phone lines and belt away. By turning the phone into a microphone and the call recording device into audio clips, the NIA is urging citizens of all countries to sing a song that best displays the love for their homeland. Auditions officially began on October 10, according to the NIA.
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The top prize for the winner is NT$150,000 in cash as well as the chance to score a contract with a talent agency. For more information, visit: immig.com.tw.[/quote] chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati … NIA-to.htm
And the point is… :ohreally:[/quote]
I’m going to have a lot of fun with the English language number: 0951-050132, after the twelfth beer or so this coming [strike]Friday night[/strike] early Saturday morning. My finely honed psychic powers tell me that shenanigans will be involved.
[quote=“Chaon”]
I’m going to have a lot of fun with the English language number: 0951-050132, after the twelfth beer or so this coming [strike]Friday night[/strike] early Saturday morning. My finely honed psychic powers tell me that shenanigans will be involved.[/quote]
Dial up and sing “Feel the Heat”, the Transformers song Wahlberg sings in the studio in Boogie Nights…
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Dial up and sing “Feel the Heat”, the Transformers song Wahlberg sings in the studio in Boogie Nights…[/quote]
Ahem the article clearly states:
So my first song choice is “We Built this City”. But we all know how I get when I drink, so I’ll probably end up crooning “Rhinestone Cowboy”.
Chief, you might have forgotten how totally awesome is the song We Built this City, by Starship. You should probably listen to it a couple of times just to remember how catchy thaat tune is. But be careful! If you listen to We Built this City too many times, or if you even read the words “We built this City” too often, then that song which is called “We Built this City” will get stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
[quote=“Chaon”][quote=“the chief”]
Dial up and sing “Feel the Heat”, the Transformers song Wahlberg sings in the studio in Boogie Nights…[/quote]
Ahem the article clearly states:
So my first song choice is “We Built this City”. But we all know how I get when I drink, so I’ll probably end up crooning “Rhinestone Cowboy”.
Chief, you might have forgotten how totally awesome is the song We Built this City, by Starship. You should probably listen to it a couple of times just to remember how catchy thaat tune is. But be careful! If you listen to We Built this City too many times, or if you even read the words “We built this City” too often, then that song which is called “We Built this City” will get stuck in your head for the rest of the day.[/quote]
You prick.
When that song was on the fuckin radio, we used to call it “We Sure Sing Shitty”.
