Response from Compal

Here is what I got from Compal

----- Original Message ----
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: v*********@yahoo.com
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 4:11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Customer of IFL90

Dear Sir:

Thanks for the information, would you pls advise where you comes from? and where you want to buy the model? so that we could route you to the correct window and figure out the problem.

Regards,
Jerry

I have wrote them a reply and will post when I get another answer.

 

Sounds sorta like Chinglish.

 

Lol , that's what i thought.

 

YAY

you made it to the first comma without destroying the english language

caps are gone, please is shorten to pls, sentence starting with and



i would NEVER send such a poorly written mail

forum though, not caring so much

 

What did you send to Compal?

 

I don't judge, since I only know a little spanish and a few swear words in vietnamese.....

 

Well, the guy does not seem to be addressing the problem of the delays. (I wonder what message vitalik did send.) On the other hand, he deserves kudos for answering at all.

But I think it would be nice to moderate the language criticism. A good number of native speakers of English cannot write their own mother tongue properly. Here we have a guy whose mother tongue is most likely Chinese trying to bridge the gap between languages from two very distant language families. (In the sense that French is closer to English than Chinese is.) He was probably picked to answer the email not because they consider him to be Shakespeare over there but because he's a person who handles English well enough for communication to be possible.

 

This is a full copy of my email including my response to Compal yesterday.

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Hello
Thank you for your response, I have ordered in the USA and rest of the people on the forum. Our distributors are www.sager.com, www.xoticpc.com, www.powenotebooks.com

Thank you.

----- Original Message ----
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: ********************
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 4:11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Customer of IFL90

Dear Sir:

Thanks for the information, would you pls advise where you comes from? and where you want to buy the model? so that we could route you to the correct window and figure out the problem.

Regards,
Jerry



From:********************
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 8:11 AM
Subject: Customer of IFL90

Hello,

I am writting on behalf of your many customers who are waiting for a long promised Compal IFL90 and the rest of Santa Rosa line up. We are waiting and waiting patiently, some of us for 3-4 month on backorder. Most of the customers are very upset and ready to cancel their orders. These customers are owners of previous models of Compal with good impressions of your company which is about to change if we do not hear from your representatives.

Please, a word from Compal would make a difference. Most of your customers can be located at http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1017 and http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1030.

Thank you.

 

Thanks for posting the whole thing.

 

Maybe someone who speaks Chinese should translate it and send it in. The reply looks like he didnt quite understand the whole message.

 

You really grabbed them by the neck with that email. Sounds like they gave the task of responding to that to someone who really wasn't suited to the task.

 

That would mean that Vietnamese would be closer to the English language. Because Vietnamese is derived from Chinese, but influenced by the French.
Have you ever tried to learn Vietnamese? I don't know, because i grew up learning the language, but my friends say's its a BI***.

Furthermore, it would seem that the email was blown off. Maybe he did it on purpose, because Chinese has a high second language rate. That of which is English. So i really don't understand why this response was so poorly written.

 

The world is going to end if we don't get our laptops!

seriously...

 

I've read an article that China suffers a bad case of Chinglish, which stems from the fact that Chinese and English are radically different languages, so using a translator tool of some kind would pump out illogical and strange English sentences, much in the same way if we were to use translators to convert to Chinese. Either the writer of this letter did that, or from his limited experience in English tried to piece something together but didn't work out.

But I do agree with you that the e-mail does seem to be blown off, probably because we are small fry compared to the companies Compal deals with, like Dell.