the machine is generous

[Mnemon]

Hi.

In the instruction manual of a phone it was written,

Dear customer, thank you for choosing our product! The machine is generous, novel, stable in performance, unique in function and easy to use.

What does it mean for a telephone to be generous? Could it be it provides more functionality than what is usual or necessary?

 

[entangledbank]

'Generous' here means the instructions were translated from (for example) Chinese by someone who doesn't really know what 'generous' means. I can't guess what an English-speaker would mean by it.

 

[The Newt]

[...] Could it be it provides more functionality than what is usual or necessary?

That's a good guess but I agree with entangledbank that it's a misuse of the word "generous."

 

[ewie]

novel, stable in performance, unique in function

isn't exactly brilliant either

 

[pops91710]

'Generous' here means the instructions were translated from (for example) Chinese by someone who doesn't really know what 'generous' means.

My first thought was just that. I see stuff written like that all the time on Amazon.