I got my new JOBBB!!! (???)

[Otohiko]

Here's what I do now: spellcheck Engrish for a living... here's a sample from the thousands of pages of mumbo-jumbo that I have to go through... fun times!

Repassivation of a high chromium stainless steel orthopaedic alloy.

The repassivation of Ortron90, a high chromium stainless steel alloy, was studied to assess the effect of passive layer removal on corrosion levels. Cathodic dissolution of the passive layer followed by potentiostatic experiments within the passive region were employed to study the repassivation process. The scratch method, carried out for comparison purposes, yielded current densities similar to those obtained by cathodic dissolution. The detailed analysis of the slopes of plots of log I/ log t indicated that the repassivation did not follow any of the existing growth models. It also suggested that the slope depended on the extent of repassivation and reached a minimum when three to five monolayers of oxide were completed. The virtual potentiodynamic plots suggested the presence of some form of protective layer within 5-10 seconds and the change in open circuit potential vs time indicated that the passive layer present after 10 seconds of repassivation continued to evolve for about 1000 to 1500 seconds possibly representing a transition between two different forms such as oxide and a oxyhydroxides. Estimation of the effect of localized removal of passive layer on the corrosion indicated a dramatic increase in local corrosion density. These results show that a fast repassivation rate is an important requirement for biocompatibility of alloys used to manufacture dental and orthopaedic devices.

If anyone can give me a clue just WTF it means, you get a cookie... but it's not a bad job I got, really!

[MrScribble]

Sooo... in short, you want us to do your job so you can sit back and earn the cash while surfing teh intarweb looking for hentai? Don't think so.

GET BACK TO WORK, SLACKERRRRR!!

[Otohiko]

ahh!!!

No more echhi for me... puu...

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Nah. If it was my job to understand the meaning of this stuff, they'd have to pay me about 60 times more.

[Propyro]

well looks like you got a nice cushy job ... if i were to continue with my job at this rate my knees would be totaly shot withing 6 years ... and thats a best case scenario. But any ways, i hope you enjoy your job. From the first two sentances it looks like that things about either rust prevention, or removing rust/corrosion from metal without causing any dammage to the metal thats corroded ... i don't feel like reading thorught teh whole thign though ... sorry.

[Otohiko]

I'm simply amazed at how dumb and engrish all these science journals are! Honestly, once you get past the big, made-up words - it seems like they were written by a bunch of rather illiterate individuals...

[Warpwind]

hmmm....

It appears to be experimenting with how quickly the layer that prevents further corrosion can be regenerated once it has been removed either by scratching or cathodic dissolution (this is really basically just a chemical reaction involving transfer of charge).

They then plot the log of electrical current verses time and perform other electrochemical methods to examine how quickly the metal stops conducting electricity and is "passive" again. In other words when the protective layer has grown again. It would be nice if they said if the final layer was oxide or oxyhydroxide based. Personally the fact that it reacts with the atmosphere to form a oxide layer and then further reacts form to a oxyhydroxide layer seems a bit a problem because it indicates that the layer isn't as unreactive as you would like but considering the timeframe this occurs in it probably doesn't matter...

Why the hell am I posting this? No one is going to care anyway. Ack! Damn you Otohiko for making me think on my break! It hasn't been nearly long engough since I did electrochem or materials structure and anaylsis yet.

I'm simply amazed at how dumb and engrish all these science journals are! Honestly, once you get past the big, made-up words - it seems like they were written by a bunch of rather illiterate individuals...

Hah, Go the techno jargon. It's only used to puff up their self-esteem and basically to cover up the fact that barely any of us ever passed english. But still I feel sorry for all the researchers from non-english speaking countries that are forced to publish papers in english because that's what the majority of science spoken in.

[Propyro]

But still I feel sorry for all the researchers from non-english speaking countries that are forced to publish papers in english because that's what the majority of science spoken in.

As do i ... if i'm not mistaken English is one of the hardest languages to learn because of how many exceptions there are to our rules.

[Otohiko]

Well, being a Linguistics student, I find all this lingo pretty amusing... Just seems a little odd, there's gotta be hundreds of ways to explain this in more comprehensible terms.

Yea, I have come across a few articles by Chinese and Japanese scientists, but actually - except some funny word choices, they don't differ much from what the native English speakers produce...

In Social Sciences or Humanities, the language is quite a bit more human though...

But who cares hehe, sorry to make you read that - you deserve a virtual cookie I really don't bother figuring out what all those things mean - I just make sure they're spelled right.

[Otohiko]

The English is tough to learn not so much because of the exceptions (which are a factor, but they exist in other languages), but because of its' complex vowel system.

But really, I can tell you first-hand that English is quite easy to learn - as compared to German with its' hellishly complex grammar, Japanese with its' puzzling writing system or Russian with its' word order (or lack thereof).

[Propyro]

But really, I can tell you first-hand that English is quite easy to learn - as compared to German with its' hellishly complex grammar, Japanese with its' puzzling writing system or Russian with its' word order (or lack thereof).

Is the german written grammer or spoken grammer more complecated? or are they both just ... <whap> ... you get what i'm trying to say ... Because German is actualy a language i'd like to try learning ... along with japanese and Italian (a language i forgot how to speak ... danm). just curious about what i'm up against in the german end of the court.