Beggar donates to Sichuan

**karusho** · 06-09-2008, 03:32 PM

This picture, taken in Guangzhou, China, shows a crippled beggar donating money to a Sichuan donation center (for those of you who are not good with Chinese names, Sichuan is the place where the earthquake happened). Apparently, the first time he showed up, he asked a cop to put the money in for him, but the staff put the box on the floor for him instead. He put an estimated 40 RMB dollars in the box. A few days later, he came again, donating about 10 RMB dollars more, and someone took a picture of him donating the money.

To see the article (translated into English via Goog)
http://translate.google.com/translat...2585%26hl%3Den

deejay100six · 06-09-2008, 07:12 PM

Hi Karusho,

This looks like it may have been an interesting post but that "translate this page" thing is about as good as the malaysian instructions we get with most of our appliances etc.

I sometimes think, maybe there is an opportunity to make some money doing proper translations, but then i realise that if we could understand these instructions, perhaps we could stop our appliances etc from malfunctioning and therefore it would be longer before we had to replace them.

Doesn't take much working out, does it?

Sorry mate but........wasted thread.

**beefers1** · 06-10-2008, 03:15 PM

that's ok, we perfectly get the point. and wordreference.com forums has some very helpful human translators.

deejay100six · 06-11-2008, 02:27 AM

Thanks Beefers, good tip, will check it out later.

06-09-2008, 03:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
karusho TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 1,217 OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Ubuntu 8.04 My System	Beggar donates to Sichuan This picture, taken in Guangzhou, China, shows a crippled beggar donating money to a Sichuan donation center (for those of you who are not good with Chinese names, Sichuan is the place where the earthquake happened). Apparently, the first time he showed up, he asked a cop to put the money in for him, but the staff put the box on the floor for him instead. He put an estimated 40 RMB dollars in the box. A few days later, he came again, donating about 10 RMB dollars more, and someone took a picture of him donating the money. To see the article (translated into English via Goog) http://translate.google.com/translat...2585%26hl%3Den __________________ Laptop Specs: Sony VAIO VGN-NR160E dual-booting Vista Ultimate SP1 and Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" Last edited by karusho; 06-09-2008 at 03:54 PM.

06-09-2008, 07:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
deejay100six Tech, Microsoft Support Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Doncaster, England. Posts: 2,919 OS: win xp pro sp2 My System	Re: Beggar donates to Sichuan Hi Karusho, This looks like it may have been an interesting post but that "translate this page" thing is about as good as the malaysian instructions we get with most of our appliances etc. I sometimes think, maybe there is an opportunity to make some money doing proper translations, but then i realise that if we could understand these instructions, perhaps we could stop our appliances etc from malfunctioning and therefore it would be longer before we had to replace them. Doesn't take much working out, does it? Sorry mate but........wasted thread. __________________ Regards, Dave. If it ain't broke, don't fix it..

06-10-2008, 03:15 PM	#3 (permalink)
beefers1 Below is my avatar Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Greater Vancouver area, BC, Canada Posts: 4,035 OS: Win XP Pro SP2 My System Blog Entries: 13	Re: Beggar donates to Sichuan that's ok, we perfectly get the point. and wordreference.com forums has some very helpful human translators. __________________

06-11-2008, 02:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
deejay100six Tech, Microsoft Support Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Doncaster, England. Posts: 2,919 OS: win xp pro sp2 My System	Re: Beggar donates to Sichuan Thanks Beefers, good tip, will check it out later. __________________ Regards, Dave. If it ain't broke, don't fix it..