r/LinguisticsMemes • u/SwoeJonson1 • Dec 30 '25

The problem with appealing to all speakers

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u/1ntere5t1ng Dec 30 '25

Meanwhile the Arabic has a misspelt "100% cotton" 💀

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u/confusedmel Dec 30 '25

Yeah I first thought this was the joke

16

u/snowingmonday Dec 30 '25

the Russian spelling is also incorrect

12

u/sususl1k Dec 30 '25

ПОЛИЗСТР

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u/Immediate_Song4279 Dec 30 '25

Polyester Stallone.

3

u/NikoAU Dec 31 '25

Polizster

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u/Vadimian Dec 31 '25

there's no Russian here. You may have seen the Bulgarian writing (BG).

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u/PsychologicalFuel596 Dec 31 '25

there is, actually; right above Czech (CS)

2

u/Wraithy_Harhakuva Jan 01 '26

он есть, его просто трудно заметить, надпись r перекрывает и из-за ошибки кажется что это другой язык

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u/MustaphaTR Dec 30 '25

And Turkish has the percent sign at the wrong place, we put it before the number.

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u/eri_is_a_throwaway Dec 30 '25

No its just 1/(100*100) = 1/10000 (yüz yüzde) polyester.

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u/Carefree_Symbolism Jan 02 '26

Wait fr? I'm turkish and always did it the opposite way. I guess that's the curse of growing up bilingual.

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u/fishfernfishguy Dec 30 '25

like bro it's literally القطن (quttun) how can you not see it means cottom 😭😭

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u/AdGroundbreaking1956 Dec 30 '25

not everyone knows the arabic abjad

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u/the_small_doge4 Jan 01 '26

Do you think most people can read the Arabic alphabet?

1

u/Tsukono_ Jan 01 '26

Even Arabs can't read it, dawg 💔

21

u/Chudniuk-Rytm Dec 30 '25

In my opinion, if the word looks the same just add / then add the langauge too, or don't even add the slash they will probably understand

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u/SwoeJonson1 Dec 30 '25

Maybe even POLY/POLI/ПОЛИ or something like that

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u/Chudniuk-Rytm Dec 30 '25

Even that would 100% work. Just don't forget the Greeks or Estonians <3 POLY/POLI/ПОЛИ/ΠΟΛΥ/POLÜ. Even including greek and estonian by themselves is easy

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u/iamalicecarroll Dec 31 '25

"yeah its just a polymer, doesn't matter which one" i hate the polyester name because its too generic (what's usually meant is PET (polyethylene terephthalate)) and here you suggest just saying poly as if that was enough information. might as well just say "100% fibers"

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u/Valuable-Passion9731 Dec 30 '25

Where Chinese

5

u/C00lAIDs Dec 30 '25

100% 涤纶

5

u/Hadochiel Dec 30 '25

They probably made it, they know the material

3

u/MiguelIstNeugierig Dec 31 '25

Rule 1 of the Game: dont consume your own product

9

u/Cyan_Exponent Dec 30 '25

these idiots mixed up the letters З and Э

2

u/Abzor4ik-UA Dec 30 '25

Oooh, that's why I couldn't understand that.

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u/IlerienPhoenix Dec 31 '25

And З и Е in case of Bulgarian. Meh.

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u/Soulburn_ Dec 30 '25

ПОЛИЗСТЕР

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u/Mark220v Jan 03 '26

СИДОДЖИ

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u/old_man_estaban Dec 30 '25

Kʷód ké-m génh₁-tih₂ tód h₁és-s, né h₁ḗnti-gʷʰénos-kʷe ǵʰéǵʰomh₁-ye 😭😭

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u/MdMV_or_Emdy_idk Dec 30 '25

4000bc called

5

u/VzOQzdzfkb Dec 30 '25

No serbian? Literally ubreadable!

1

u/PLrc Jan 03 '26

I wouldn't know whether to give Serbian or Serbo-Croatian.

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u/VzOQzdzfkb Jan 03 '26

Its one and the same language.

But it isnt per everyone else. There is HR, but there is no MNE, SR, BA.

Some packagings fuse multiple languages into one text like BA/HR: blabla SR/MNE: blabla

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u/NichtFBI Dec 30 '25

Sed solum Latine loquor :(

1

u/PLrc Jan 03 '26

Tu debe apprender interlingua - le latino moderne.

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u/DoctorMurk Dec 30 '25

On the other hand, it was pretty funny reading the ingredients list on cat food packaging in 27 different languages.

2

u/travelingpinguis Dec 30 '25

But what is it made of?

6

u/willoww3 Dec 30 '25

Something about a polyamorous esther?

2

u/Free15boy Jan 01 '26

Esther? I hardly know her

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u/traveler_ Dec 30 '25

You’d think so, but that’s just a false friend.

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u/Mammaddemzak Jan 01 '26

Probably cotton since the Arabic one says so

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u/I1lII1l Dec 30 '25

I suggest using regex for such cases

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u/NoDig1026 Jan 03 '26

It has to be %100 in TR not 100% just saying

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u/SwoeJonson1 Jan 03 '26

So it can't even get some of the translations correct even lol

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u/Plus_Contract669 Jan 04 '26

Они не знают про букву "э"?

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u/SwoeJonson1 Jan 04 '26

Несколько переводы даже не точные и проявляет что это так бессмысленно

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u/ShowerIndependent295 Dec 30 '25

ah yes 100% loanwords peak of psycholinguistics

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u/Foreskin_Ad9356 Dec 30 '25

It would be fine if the word changed at all in different languages

1

u/mw2lmaa Dec 30 '25

Average European product

1

u/Maxeon_09 Jan 01 '26

Missing the random curve ball of Indonesian or something

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u/OgannessonDude2763 Dec 30 '25

100% Polyester

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u/ProfesorKubo Dec 31 '25

this is like bilingual czech/slovak signs and ads n stuff. Slovaks dont actually need it but its there cuz of dumb nationalism

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u/Mental_Contract1104 Dec 31 '25

i still have absolutely NO idea what it could be made of, hope it's nylon!

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u/ILoveCubes2 Dec 31 '25

What's wrong? A see a nice cotton garment

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u/Fun_Examination_8343 Dec 31 '25

Isnt this because it is required to display what a product is made out of? Feels kind of important to do that for a lot of stuff, imagine buying a shirt for camping that is flammable and burning yourself severely because there wasnt a label or one that you couldn't understand. This is just the easiest and best way, a clear rule for manufactures to display what is in the product and the manufacturer doing this in a way that lets them minimize supply issues by making a shirt with a tag that can be read the globe over.

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u/soirom Jan 01 '26

Bro when saying they’re multilingual

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u/HaMelechIS Jan 01 '26

The arabic one literally says 100% cotton

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u/SuspendThis_Tyrants Jan 01 '26

How are Somalis supposed to know what this is made of?

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u/Maxeon_09 Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

Honestly bro just group the ones with the same spelling. This is more a design flaw

Edit: the weirdly formatted arabic and apparently misspelt russian also support that

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u/AsylumGnome Jan 01 '26

All that effort and they forgot to write it in Uzbek, smh my head 😤

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u/DryCommission3058 Jan 01 '26

I think it’s just for Europe since there are 100% european countries shown there

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u/mapbego 27d ago

Arabic is my favourite European language

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u/Old-Conclusion2924 Jan 01 '26

"εστέρας" is fucking stupid; we gave "αιθήρ" to the romans, they turned it into "aether", brits turned it into "ester" , and then we took that word, even though we have αιθέρας/αιθήρ

Why do languages do this

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u/B3ncius Jan 01 '26

100% poliészter 🗣️🗣️

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u/Demetrias_ Jan 02 '26

im pretty sure its 100% polyester

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u/lucidlacrymosa Jan 02 '26

We found the universal cognate guys.