Re: So it is true...
>> I've noticed on consumer product labels that a Uni-Scand version is
>> sometimes used, with translations only when the words are very
>> different. Eg on a "bath & creme" product one of the languages is
>> "S/DK/N": the product is said to leave "huden din" (your skin, in
>> Norwegian) "deilig myk/dejlig blřd/underbart mjuk" (wonderfully soft,
>> in N/DK/S -- ie the reverse of the stated order!). There seems to
>> be a certain redundancy there.
>
> Yes, this is fairly common. I guess it takes up less space than
> writing it three (or four) times.
Interesting, that this is not the case of Czech and Slovak - my eau de
toilette says:
Toaletní voda: Datum výroby: uvedeno na výrobku. (CZ)
Toaletná voda: Dátum výroby: uvedený na výrobku. (SK)
The differencies always are so huge ;-)
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