Unpacking a cheap digital clock yesterday The Editor came across some fantastic Engrish in the instructions:

operating instructions
1. Reply
Ascend to wire reply. Reply a hour LCD all and bright 1.5 secondses, and output a beep voice.
Reply a juniors into the mode of Time, the LCD shows January 1 12:00 (recognize tacitly the date:2003/1/1), Wednesday.
Manifestation time is 12 hours mode.
Alarm clock function close, alarm clock manifestation “–:–”.
The Day Count shows 2004/1/1,the number is a “365″.
LCD right next Cape manifestation temperature.

2. Time establishes:
After pressing to press two seconds in key, the system enters time establishes mode, send out at the same time a long the voice of Beep.
It uses the item that key choice demand establishes, the sequence is shown as diagram below while establishing.
If have established time(hour or cent),establish be over hour an antomatic and pure zero. Under the mode of TIME SET, in addition to above key, press other key to withdraw the mode of TIME SET,return to the time manifestation mode.

Ed’s typed enough — you get the picture. Surely somebody in Taiwan is taking the piss with that. Not even the Babel Fish translater can screw English up that badly.