Lost in translation...

[anghara]

From a garment-care tag acquired god-knows-when and recently unearthed in the post-project desk excavation - I figured I needed to share -

FRONT

it says LIAN LIN, and MADE IN CHINA

so far, so good

here's where the fun starts

BACK (and I quote verbatim, spelling syntax and all, with the exception of the garment care symbols which I cannot reproduce here)

Qualified certificate

Composition: personslk 70%, 30% nylan

Composition: An etc: Article

1. An expert hand washes, dry cleaning

2. can't use to contain lvb bleach

3. Doing not want the pubasks

4. The low temperature yunis very hot

Place: Manufacturing in China

Inquiring minds want to know what a yunis is, and whether it should be hot or cold, and what pubasks have to do with soaking the garment (presumably one shouldn't do it in beer) and why the garment can't be used to contain bleach...

Sorry. Had to throw that out there. Before I finally discard the funny label itself.

Comments

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

After having read many Language Log posts about bad Chinese -> English translation, I am going to guess the care instructions are meant to be:

1. We recommend hand washing or dry cleaning
2. Do not bleach
3. Do not tumble dry
4. Iron at the lowest temperature setting

And I'm guessing personslk is rayon (which used to be called artificial silk).

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

If you're just going to throw that label out any way, would you consider giving it to me instead?

I very much doing want the pubasks.

Thanks.

[anghara.livejournal.com]

heh. I've still got it if you want it. email me an address.

[kymbrunner.livejournal.com]

I wish an expert would hand wash my stuff! :D

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

You can't just discard this label! You have to post a picture of it on http://engrishfunny.com/ !

[paulcarp.livejournal.com]

I've been playing a lot of tavern trivia lately, which made me laugh at the "pubasks."

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I was mentally pronouncing it "pooh-basks", like Pooh-Bah the Lord High Everything Else in the Mikado.