There is obviously a difference between what's called dialect and local changes, and outward-facing communication and I'm obviously talking about the latter because that is what we see on TPU and in ads. Those local changes to a language simply do not work well outside their native country.
Yeah, no, those "dialects" as you call it, is exactly what's being used in outside communications in those countries. I think you're vastly overestimating how the real world works.
Our stance on the Chinglish and other twisted English therefore isn't so strange. It doesn't work, because communication gets distorted, and yes, it deserves to be ridiculed - do better. Simple. That is the social discourse in an internet-based world, we troll each other into the ground to improve these days, or we cooperate to improve, and we lean towards best practices over local interpretations - even the Taiwanese surely have started at an Oxford Dictionary of some sort, to develop their education, and if they haven't, well GG. The snowflake approach of 'you're all right, and there is no problem' is never a good path. It leads to laziness, and more and more errors, until we really stop understanding each other and my grass is your sky; or even worse, we start detecting a rising % of illiteracy in countries, see below. Its really worrying. Education is everything - and it should indeed strive to unify the type of English being taught as much as possible. Especially in a world carried by digital, international communication.
Chinglish is something else though, as that is some terrible mix and not proper English. I don't see any of that in this press release, although Gigabyte has been know to use chinglish in the past, but they've stepped up their game in their PR in the past couple of years. I have been one of many people that have been bugging Taiwanese companies to improve their English in things like press releases, but alas, most of the time, they simply do not care. As already pointed out, they've been running successful businesses for 40+ years, so why change the way they're doing things?
This is the most popular translation tool in Taiwan...
It has all kinds of issues from what I can tell, but it's the one preferred by most people in Taiwan based on my experience.
I have as I said, never defended the bad English, I have in fact suggested a lot of companies should hire experienced English teachers in Taiwan, as their copy editors, but apparently you can pay a local that studied in the US (or some other English speaking country) less, than a foreigner, so they go that route instead...
You and I are both from countries that have a much better than average English language level, just go to France or Germany and it's impossible to manage on just English. This applies to most of the world, so we're actually in the minority here. However, recently the new here in Sweden has picked up on the fact that 1/10 boys that finish 9th grade are unable to read properly, which is quite scary and an even higher percentage of people finishing school here are unable to read longer pieces of text and find it unimportant. We're really hurtling towards Idiocracy at an incredible pace.
Literacy is one of the major civil rights issues of our time. Our children’s future—and our nation’s democracy—depends on us addressing this crisis now.
edtrust.org
We can observe the facts, but we can still have an opinion and stance on what is considered 'good' in language use and communication. In the end, the whole point of it is that we understand each other, and keep doing so.
I still don't see the issue with this press release, apart from the choice of the word snatch, but the slang meaning of the word, is still not how most people use.
By far the most important BIOS setting on any modern motherboard from the tier-one vendors is one that never used to exist; It's the setting that prevents the automatic installation of vendor bloatware once you get into Windows.
I have been using PCs for 30+ years and I have never, ever experienced motherboard software that isn't genuinely awful, useless, malware.
Good thing that is just a UEFI toggle on Gigabyte boards then. Very easy to disable on first boot.
