Advice for Beginning Ukulele in very unusual English.

Buddy McCue · Apr 24, 2009

If you're entertained by badly translated English, then you should see this.
http://fasra.com/en/book-reviews/news_2008-05-21-13-31-56-340.html
It's an introduction to ukulele playing entitled, "Ukulele Beginners: Ten Ways
To Excite Off to the Culminating Inauguration."

It seems like good advice overall, but the English certainly is unusual.
An example:

7. Dominance your ukulele loosely. It is all to effortless to choke the tone and book
elsewhere of your ukulele by holding it further tight. Fee speedy control to how the
top players approximating Jake Shimabukuro clutch the ukulele.

buddhuu · Apr 24, 2009

Looks like Babelfish output...

Buddy McCue · Apr 24, 2009

buddhu said:
Looks like Babelfish output...

That's what I thought. Some automated translation program.

8890 · Apr 24, 2009

It should be good advice, for the link at the bottom reveals that it's written by none other than Al Wood of Ukulele Hunt.

My guess is that it has been auto-translated from English to another language, and then back again. That always yields funny results, and crushes people's beliefs in auto-translation

mailman · Apr 24, 2009

Reminds me of something I ran into once. We bought a new dehumidifier for the basement after the old one died. I've never been able to figure the stupid thing out, because the instructions read the same way as the stuff you posted. Turn it on and it'll run for two seconds and then quit...

hoosierhiver · Apr 24, 2009

Space aliens speak the same way.

salukulady · Apr 24, 2009

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just play the damn thing.

HaileISela · Apr 24, 2009

8890 said:
It should be good advice, for the link at the bottom reveals that it's written by none other than Al Wood of Ukulele Hunt.

My guess is that it has been auto-translated from English to another language, and then back again. That always yields funny results, and crushes people's beliefs in auto-translation

yeah, I saw that too, funny how the sentences were changed^^

Ahnko Honu · Apr 24, 2009

Check out this site: http://www.engrish.com/

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