Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Despite, not because of, their English

abuse-plastic-bagLast Saturday, I bought Fish Liver Oil Emulsion, a food supplement manufactured by a Chinese company named Qingdao Double Whale Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. A leaflet, which contains a little explanation of the product and an instruction on dosage, came with it.

"Fish Liver Oil Emulsion, composed of fish liver oil, concentrated frash orange juice, vitamins A, D and C," the leaflet said, "can improve health and promote growth, It is agreeable in taste, good for both women and infants, and will be more effective if administered frequently."

I've spotted only two errors in this passage: one, the word "fresh" was misspelled as "frash." Two, the punctuation that came after the first sentence should be a period, not a comma.