Originally posted by ChopperCharles Chinese characters, but they've changed so much over the years, they are no longer Chinese. They are NOT Mandarin characters. Anyone that reads Mandarin would look at this and see gibberish.
I lived in Japan and used to be fluent (sadly my reading skills were never terribly good), but that was a 13 or 14 years ago, so I'm no good for translating this. Not without several hours spent with my old books and notes, at least.
Charles.
Just for clarification, I'm talking about this text from post #32. This is traditional Chinese, used in Hong Kong and southern China. I know enough to recognize bits and pieces, and characters used for punctuation, such as "嗎" and also expressions such as "加油" which is roughly equivalent to the Japanese "頑張って。”
There's no kana, so it is not Japanese. The two languages share lots of characters, although there are some differences. The fact that they share so many characters is why I tried to pick up Chinese after studying Japanese for a couple of years... trying to learn some etymology along with everything else.
Here's a comparison of the text translated into Japanese, and Chinese at Google Translate. Machine translations are often bad, and the Mandarin practice sentences I'm studying don't come out clean, but it's surely not Japanese.
期待P家的FF
另外FF的NEX也挺迷人的~
好險FF對我沒有太大的吸引力!!
不過第2點讓我覺得怪怪的...K5IIS不是已經上市了嗎??
在2013年還要???
就算真的出FF我想也要等到第2代或第3代才會比較有實用性!!
第一代只能說是試水溫的白老鼠!!
只要PENTAX出全副,就會支持。
加油 !! 繼續支持!! PENTAX FF機 期待中....
From Japanese:
"P FF entrepreneurial expectations
~ A 迷人 也挺 a FF NEX 另外
Large attraction force 險 好 太 沒有 對我 FF!
了 嗎 launch 已經 是 ... K5IIS not get a Kai Kai remembered us the second over non 點讓?
You request return 在 2013??
ROC comparison of organic fruit for some 3rd-year-old second-generation, etc. throughout 也要 likely leave us a true FF 就算!
Shiraoi rat 溫的 說是 water sample function only first generation!
All deputy, support only required PENTAX 就會 out.
繼續 support! Pressurized oil! Machine in the hope PENTAX FF ...."
From Chinese:
"Look forward to the P home of FF
Other FF's the NEX are also very fascinating to
The good insurance FF not much appeal to me!!
But 2:00 so I think the the strange ... K5IIS market??
Even in 2013???
Even really a FF I want to have to wait until the second generation or third-generation will be more practical!
The first generation can only say that guinea pigs to test the water temperature!
PENTAX out fully, it will support.
Come on!! Continue to support! PENTAX FF machine look forward to ...."