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 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 03:40 pm (UTC)I knew there had to be a solid, scientific reason for wearing black!
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Date: 2010-01-26 03:59 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 04:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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