Blog translation

Oh my goodness! I was looking at the links that surface my blog when I came across this: a translation of my blog!

Some Chinese mainlander must have stumbled upon my blog via the searchword 'Create Talents' (probably he or she have been 'scouted' too!) and had problems understanding English, so resorted to getting my blog translated into Mandarin!

I thought some of the translation is hilarious eg. 'model' is translated as '型号' or '模式'; 'if'(as in 'whether'), '如果'; 'recognised', '承认'; 'A Pte Ltd some more','阿私人有限公司多一些'.

The translation is clearly done by a software which does not decode the words based on context, but simply rigid interpretation.

Hadn't had a good laugh over language for so long!

The translation even had a Chinese name for my blog: 阁楼的思考. :) I like that.


星期日，2010年4月4日
Create Talents Pte Ltd 建立人才私人有限公司
I was in town last Wednesday and walking past Orchard MRT (underground).我是上周三在城里走过去和乌节地铁（地下）。

A Chinese Mainlander approached me and told me that she was looking for models.一个中国内地走过来告诉我说，她要查找的型号。 She passed me a namecard which read 'Create Talents'.她递给我一个名片内容如下'建立人才。

I asked casually if they accept child models.我随便问，如果他们的孩子接受的模式。 She said,"Yes, yes."她说：“是的，是的。” And she asked me for my phone number.她问我对我的电话号码。

I turned her down a few times, as I was sure it was a bluff.我拒绝了她几次，因为我确信这是一个虚张声势。 How many talent scouts in their right mind would approach an auntie to scout as a talent?如何在心智正常的方法很多人才球探球探作为一个阿姨到人才？ My share of unpleasant cheating experience with Chinese Mainlander helped and I recognised that accent.我与中国内地不愉快的经验分享帮助作弊，我承认这样的口音。 Seeing that I refused to back down, she took the namecard back from me, without a word of apology and walked away.看到我拒绝让步，她把我的名片回来，没有一个字的道歉走开了。

I remembered the website and googled for it under http://www.createtalents.com/ .我想起了GOOGLE上搜索网站，并根据http://www.createtalents.com/ 。

The home page looked promising.主页上看起来前途无量。 A Pte Ltd some more.阿私人有限公司多一些。

But as I googled for reviews on it, I realised that it is a scam.但正如我为它评语GOOGLE上搜索，我意识到这是一个骗局。

The 'talent scouts' earn commission by bringing people to the 'modeling agency' and make them pay more than $500 for a portfolio.在'人才球探'赚取佣金，使人民的'模特儿公司'，使他们付出的投资组合超过500元。

Of these links that I have googled, this has someone, a goon doo by the nick of goodheavenz, speaking up for them and pretending to be a neutral party.这些GOOGLE了联系，我有， 这有一个人，一个goodheavenz呆子斗尼克的对象，为他们说话，假装是一个中立的一方。

He offered a few links and claimed that Create Talents was likely a legitimate agency:他提供了一些链接，并声称，创造型人才，可能是合法的机构：
http://collettem.createtalents.com/ http://collettem.createtalents.com/
http://dasd.createtalents.com http://dasd.createtalents.com
http://kelvinh.createtalents.com http://kelvinh.createtalents.com
http://fredericky.createtalents.com http://fredericky.createtalents.com

However, all the more I find it dubious, because all the blogs have only one or two entries and they are all about how great Create Talents is.然而，更我觉得可疑，因为所有的博客只有一个或两个项目，他们都对人才是多么伟大的创造。

Good heavens!天哪！