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Re: [93attendees] Laundry service by the kilo with pickup/delivery

joel jaeggli <joelja@gmail.com> Sat, 18 July 2015 06:52 UTC

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To: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>, "93attendees@ietf.org" <93attendees@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [93attendees] Laundry service by the kilo with pickup/delivery
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On 7/18/15 8:31 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 15, 2015, at 1:13 AM, Randall Gellens
>> <rg+ietf@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The laundry service is independent and will pick-up/drop-off
>> anywhere in their service area. See
>> http://www.laundry-express.cz/en
> 
> For the record - I got some translation help from a hotel employee.
> I was very amused.
> 
> The price list says that they do washing, mangling, and several
> other services. "Mangling" is the translation of "Mandlování" (from
> the Czech version of the site). The lady I asked didn't know the
> translation and looked it up on her translation app on her phone -
> it came up "mangling" there as well.
> 
> It turns out that the word means "ironing" or "pressing".

A "mangle" was a machine which presses clothing between rollers. we
would think of them as the pre-dryer "wringer". this is dutch/german,
earlier it was a siege engine.


> For those for whom English is not a first language, "mangling" in
> my dictionary is "to severely mutilate, disfigure or damage by
> cutting, tearing, or crushing". It comes from the same Norman root
> as "to maim".
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the service doesn't intend to maim the laundry
> :-)

They hope flatten it, hopefully their tooling is somewhat more modern
or mangled is a likely outcome.

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