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I think of is a preposition not an article. And in missing of portion code, portion code is not an adjective but maybe attributive.
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:25 am "missing of" |
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Haihao, this sounds to me like a foreigner wrote it. A native speaker would have said something like "because a code portion has been missed" or "because a portion of the code has been missed".
If a foreigner didn't write it, it's possible that a native English speaker translated it and stuck to slavishly to the foreign syntax in that instance. |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:17 am "missing of" |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| If a foreigner didn't write it, it's possible that a native English speaker translated it and stuck to slavishly to the foreign syntax in that instance. |
Hi Jamie,
I dare say, with all respect, you are the sharpest person I have ever "met"! It IS a translated document, and the translator received a lot of restrictions which had to be kept. Well, I love it! I mean, your see-through power, very much, and always. |
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| #5 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:27 am "missing of" |
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Haihao, I'm an experienced ESL teacher and a professional translator. I know the kinds of mistakes other people make in English, and the kinds of mistakes I and others make when translating, so it's experience, rather than clairvoyance. In fact, a lot of my work involves fixing other people's bad translations, so I've seen everything imaginable, including cases where phony translators have not translated, but just made up new texts from their imagination.
By the way, sometimes expressions from bad translations actually end up as part of the normal English vocabulary. For example, some bad translations from Chinese into English, in Mao's time, referred to some people or some countries as "running dog lackeys of the American imperialist warmongering pigs". Americans found this phrase so funny that 40 years later, "running dog lackey" is a common expression in English, at least in the United States. What does "running dog" mean? Nobody knows, but it's funny. |
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| #6 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:50 am "missing of" |
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This is really funny!: "running dog lackeys of the American imperialist warmongering pigs". I couldn't help laughing, dying of laughing.
The speaker must have loved animals very much.
Is "running dog" a brown-nose? |
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| #7 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:36 pm "missing of" |
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| Haihao wrote: |
| Is "running dog" a brown-nose? |
You're Chinese. YOU tell ME! We don't actually know what it means. We just know it's funny.
The phrase I mentioned was part of a Chinese government press release or something official like that. |
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| #8 (permalink) Fri Mar 19, 2010 13:38 pm "missing of" |
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| Thank you for your compliments. But unfortunately I am not Chinese but Japanese although I know a couple of Chinese words, and Haihao is a Japanese name in Chinese reading (pronunciation; we share Kanji, i.e., Hanzi, with the Chinese people). I also know a little about the Culture Revolution in China during which a lot of such funny words and phrases were coined. |
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