How time flies.... and I haven't been keeping up to date, not, alas, because of a lack of suitable material. A colleague has prompted me to start writing again by sending me a photo she took in the laundry room of a campsite in the south of France this summer.
How terribly unfortunate that the French word "lessive" is used to mean both the laundry you wash and the washing powder that you use to do so, and obviously the translator (whether a machine or a person) picked the wrong one.
This would appear to be a good place to post the laundry instruction label from a garment made in China, which has so many mistakes that I'd be here all night explaining, so I'll put a glossary underneath it.
cold (adj): froid a cold (noun): un rhume
tumble dry - sécher en machine; tumble - tomber
low (adj) - bas; at a low temperature: à bas temperature.
bleach (noun) - eau de javel; to bleach - décolorer
non-chlorine - sans chlore
iron (noun) - le fer; to iron - repasser
a design - un motif; ∅design - la conception
to dry - sécher; to clean - nettoyer; clean (adj) - propre; to dry clean - nettoyer à sec
