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Title: cunning linguist required
Post by: ROBERT on 08/08/2006 15:59:04
Its been very hot here in the UK.
Thirsty, I bought this bottle of cola from a street vendor.
I had drunk the contents before I noticed the (Georgian?) text.

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi24.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc23%2FSUEDONIM%2Fcola.jpg&hash=66fa93f80a0851274ae503b75824afdb)

Can anyone tell me where this bottle came from ?.
(The only english text on the lable is "Coca-Cola Light").
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: Karen W. on 08/08/2006 16:26:23
That is very odd! Are you feeling okay Robert!LOL Seriously though it almost looks like hebrew No hmmm  Egyptian maybe?

Karen
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: neilep on 08/08/2006 16:52:43
Well it's not Hebrew.

I think it's Saturnian and if I understand it correctly it reads:

" If found to be defective please return to Titan...3rd moon from the right..this does not affect your statutory rights "

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: Karen W. on 08/08/2006 16:56:28
HEHEHEHEHE! LOL! TOO FUNNY!

Karen
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: JimBob on 08/08/2006 17:34:17
Robert,

To me it is from the indian sub-continent. There are many languages there and a lot of alphabets, but I am no lingust, much less cunning.




The mind is like a parachute. It works best when open.  -- A. Einstein
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: Karen W. on 09/08/2006 06:31:57
Could it be Myian( spelling sorry)?

Karen
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: another_someone on 09/08/2006 07:36:17
This is the Georgian alphabet:

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.omniglot.com%2Fimages%2Fwriting%2Fgeorgian.gif&hash=b86db35f901fe077b8f6b862483e5452)

It looks like it is a close match.

Don't ask me to translate.


George
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: neilep on 09/08/2006 12:23:40
George, please translate .

Men are the same as women, just inside out !
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: another_someone on 09/08/2006 13:21:28
quote:
Originally posted by neilep
George, please translate .


The easy bit is the two characters after the number 500, which are the characters 'ml' - for millilitres.


George
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: ROBERT on 09/08/2006 15:24:00
quote:
Originally posted by Karen W.

That is very odd! Are you feeling okay Robert!?

Karen

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Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: Corbeille on 18/08/2006 19:35:29
What's Georgian for "we've got no friggin' drinking water since that coca-cola bottling plant was opened"?



"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities - Voltaire"
Title: Re: cunning linguist required
Post by: time-cop on 18/08/2006 22:53:16
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Spot on neil ! you can see the consumers reflection, and wasnt it clever of george and ian to invent a whole new language [8D]

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