Promod is a French company, and their clothing descriptions often show signs of having been translated by someone without much knowledge of the English used by the fashion industry.
I think an English sentence which read "make your skin sublime" could be interpreted in either way, so possible the French copy made sense, but has been translated by someone without knowledge of the finer points of the use of 'sublime' as a verb.
Ouch! Mind you, I remember having to stifle all manner of comments, and an attack of the giggles, while listening to some skincare shop assistant explain how a particular moisturiser contained molten gold, and claimed that the molten gold brightened the skin and improved its texture and so on...
I suspect it might even sublime it, actually! lthough it might be hard to apply it; it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula like they do with some posh skin creams!
Probably not, since carbon has the highest sublimation point of any chemical element and once all that silly water was gone it's mostly carbon you'd be left with.
it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula
Yeah, if you're going to barbecue something you need proper metal tongs!
I have a facial scrub which is poorly translated into French. It contains elderflower extract, which is rendered as 'fleur de vielleaux', which I believe means 'flower of the oldies'.
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:53 pm (UTC)Possibly they meant
To transmute into something higher, nobler, or more excellent
but there are surely better ways of saying it :)
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Date: 2010-01-26 03:04 pm (UTC)I think an English sentence which read "make your skin sublime" could be interpreted in either way, so possible the French copy made sense, but has been translated by someone without knowledge of the finer points of the use of 'sublime' as a verb.
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Date: 2010-01-26 03:40 pm (UTC)I knew there had to be a solid, scientific reason for wearing black!
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Date: 2010-01-26 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-26 03:59 pm (UTC)Mind you, I remember having to stifle all manner of comments, and an attack of the giggles, while listening to some skincare shop assistant explain how a particular moisturiser contained molten gold, and claimed that the molten gold brightened the skin and improved its texture and so on...
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:15 pm (UTC)In fairness, it probably would. Briefly. Not sure about the texture part, though...
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Probably not, since carbon has the highest sublimation point of any chemical element and once all that silly water was gone it's mostly carbon you'd be left with.
it'd be no use them including a little plastic spatula
Yeah, if you're going to barbecue something you need proper metal tongs!
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Date: 2010-01-26 04:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-26 05:30 pm (UTC)