Could Someone Please Tell Me What This Means?
Claire Berlinski, Ed. ·
Jan 4, 2011 at 11:38pm
So long as we're posting photos of things we have in our house that probably have no political significance at all, here's a little game for you. What are these and what do you do with them?
Bonus: What would happen if you confused these two products?
Knowledge of Turkish excludes you from playing. No using a dictionary.
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May '10
Re: Could Someone Please Tell Me What This Means?
My mother always bought those brands too!
May '10
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My guesses:
The green one is either olive oil or liquid hand soap, and the blue one is either vanilla scented sanitary wipes or laundry detergent.
Re: Could Someone Please Tell Me What This Means?
Mark Wilson: My guesses:
The green one is either olive oil or liquid hand soap, and the blue one is either vanilla scented sanitary wipes or laundry detergent. · Jan 5 at 12:56am
Correct on the right. Close, but fatally wrong on the left.
I make fewer mistakes like this now--although I still make quite a number--but when I first got here, man ... it's a wonder I survived.
May '10
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Yes, after examining the label more closely those are clearly lemon flowers, not vanilla. =P Please forgive the dangling participle.
Is it general purpose detergent like for cleaning floors?
Jul '10
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I'm guessing olive oil and bleach.
Oct '10
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The green one is a lubricant for a swedish car....
and the white one is also a lubricant, aromatic, for an automatic bus's drive shaft.
???
Re: Could Someone Please Tell Me What This Means?
Right you are! Wylee Coyote wins! It's olive oil soap, but close enough, the main thing is to appreciate that the other one is bleach. Wylee, congratulations--you would not have used this product as, say, a lubricant. For anything.
The most confusing part of that label, by the way--to Turkish language novices--is that no individual word translates as bleach. If you look it up, you get "laundry water." It's for "hand" and "automatic." The only way to figure it out is through experience.
Aug '10
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Could you please use them in a sentence ? I think I can figure it out from there .
Sep '10
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Wylee Coyote wins!
In all the years of watching the cartoon, that never, ever happened.
May '10
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Finally, Kennedy "Neyland" Smith discovers the truth for which he has so long sought. The mysterious international assassin known as the White Hand is, in fact, Claire BerlAAAAAUGH!
Jul '10
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Yay! I'm validated!
What do I win? My guess is a lovely filet in a delicate saute of olive oil and, um...
Er, never mind.