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Despite being inundated with Passover preparations I just had to share this with you. It was written on the wrapper of a pair of household gloves which are made in China. I copy the notice "as is":
This product adopts imported excellent nature latex use u.s. 100% nature active aloe, fetch in American patent technology, it has unique arts and crafts, high quality, it is eximious flexibility and super soft.
Further on there is the following
Friendly cue:
Can be repeated used, but avoid heated.
Please be put in a cool place, but avoid solarized.
Please avoid touch gasoline, mineral oil and so on directly.
Can someone please translate into English? (I would love to know what 'eximious' means.)
J F R
PS To all Jews who visit here: have a Happy Passover.
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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J F R wrote:
> Can someone please translate into English? (I would love to know what 'eximious' means.)
It's one of the hazards of relying on people who translate from dictionaries ... (my mother has done some fairly technical translations, but always makes a point of running the completed work past someone who knows the subject area ... I was her sample reader for the translation from French to English of a paper on "Mousterian Stone Hand Axes", back in the days when I was studying anthropology!
"Eximious" ? Is actually a perfectly good, if slightly recondite, English word, meaning "outstanding or unusual". Not a word that's in my normal spoken vocabulary, but it crops up from time to time in the works of people like Thomas de Quincey
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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Hmmm... just as "recondite" is an obscure word meaning "little known?"
(Pulling your leg gently)
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To JFR and any kin amoungst us;
Have a Happy Passover and a great sedar!!
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shabbat shalom
many blessings to all the bretheren during this Passover season
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Dear JFR,
There is little I can say about the English dialect you present here, except that it looks very much like genuine Engrish.
But I wish you a Happy Passover!
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Dear JFR:
So you think you got (English) problem? ;-D LOL I'm Asian and I havn't speak English for long. I'm holding a dictionary one hand and trying to understand almost every word that everyone's saying.
eximious in dictionary (that I just checked) means: high quality, super-fine, great..
anyway, have a great Passover and fun. (someone please explain to me what Passover is?  Dictionary said it's a festival)
Errol
PS that gloves made from my country...
I've got sins...or not?
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Passover is the Hebrew holdiday festival. It celibrates the night that the Angel of Death passed over the homes of the Hebrews in Egypt sparing the first born child. Thus the Name Passover. Im sure I dont have this exactly right but Im sure I will be corrected.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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Considering tony wishes to convert to Judaism i learned alot of it
Curtis is right up to the angel of death part
it was the plague that said God will kill the first borne son of all of Egypt if you do not free the people of Israel from Bondage and so God sent the angel of death who went house to house killing the kids and God said to Moses "So i am able to distinguish your people's homes from the Pharaoh's put sheep's blood on the door framing".
And so they did and the Angel of Death Passed Over their houses the rest is history...
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To Eldon and Jonathan and many others,
Thank you for your kind Passover wishes. My partner and I went to our temple for a community sedar and really enjoyed it.
Chag Sameach v'Chaim ad haOlam (Happy holiday and life forever),
Peter
(not quite Jewish, but not really goyish, either.)
"Tu non altro che il canto avrai del figlio, o materna mia terra..."
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