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So this isn't really an SC, it's a communication....issue.
Our sales office is the only distributor of our specific electronic components in the Western hemisphere - Canada, Mexico, US, South America, Carribean.
That having been said, it'd be -nice- if we had someone in the office who had more than a three-years-of-highschool knowledge of Spanish, but.
Occasionally we get 'Babelfish Casualties,' as we call them. Unfortunate customers that aren't sucky themselves, but royally suck to deal with because we can't understand what the hell they're talking about. And it's not their fault. It's the company's fault for being stupid. But I digress.
Today we had the best one probably EVER.
The email I received from him went as follows.
"GOOB
you are VERY PASIENTE WITH I CRUMB THAT it PUNISHES BUT he/she PLAYS to ASK WELL to BE ABLE TO to BUY,
WE REQUIRE 256 UNITS OF EACH ONE TO CREATE THE ONE BEFORE PROJECT.
TO SEND COST OF THESE?
TIME OF HE/SHE SURRENDERS WHEN PAYING EVERYTHING?
WHERE I CAN PAY THEM WITH CARD OF CREDO.
THANK YOU SEARCH ATTENTION"
I nearly cried, I was laughing so hard.
I know it's difficult for translation programs to do a proper job - I'm multilingual myself and know it's impossible to get a nonsentient program to get things right. But it makes me wonder if the emails we send to him are as ridiculous to him as this one was to us. XD
Our sales office is the only distributor of our specific electronic components in the Western hemisphere - Canada, Mexico, US, South America, Carribean.
That having been said, it'd be -nice- if we had someone in the office who had more than a three-years-of-highschool knowledge of Spanish, but.
Occasionally we get 'Babelfish Casualties,' as we call them. Unfortunate customers that aren't sucky themselves, but royally suck to deal with because we can't understand what the hell they're talking about. And it's not their fault. It's the company's fault for being stupid. But I digress.
Today we had the best one probably EVER.
The email I received from him went as follows.
"GOOB
you are VERY PASIENTE WITH I CRUMB THAT it PUNISHES BUT he/she PLAYS to ASK WELL to BE ABLE TO to BUY,
WE REQUIRE 256 UNITS OF EACH ONE TO CREATE THE ONE BEFORE PROJECT.
TO SEND COST OF THESE?
TIME OF HE/SHE SURRENDERS WHEN PAYING EVERYTHING?
WHERE I CAN PAY THEM WITH CARD OF CREDO.
THANK YOU SEARCH ATTENTION"
I nearly cried, I was laughing so hard.
I know it's difficult for translation programs to do a proper job - I'm multilingual myself and know it's impossible to get a nonsentient program to get things right. But it makes me wonder if the emails we send to him are as ridiculous to him as this one was to us. XD
as a favor as long as it's not 200 letters a day 
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