will have peaceful butterflies in your bedroom
English translation: will fill your bedroom with butterflies fluttering peacefully...
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|  Selected response from: Carol Gullidge United Kingdom Local time: 07:32 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | will fill your bedroom with butterflies fluttering peacefully... |
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| 4 | nice and peaceful/calm |
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| watch for a minute and the butterfly will appear |
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13 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1will fill your bedroom with butterflies fluttering peacefully... Explanation: I think that this is a tongue-in-cheek swipe at media hype, and therefore needs to be translated fairly literally (the translation also to be taken with a pinch of salt, of course!) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2014-02-18 11:13:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- PS, pity about all those misplaced commas in the ST! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 mins (2014-02-18 11:14:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- PPS, always assuming that this is a translation...! |
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nice and peaceful/calm Explanation: yes -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2014-02-18 11:08:06 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I think the writer might be getting their idioms mixed up "butterflies in your stomach/tummy" =feeling nervous so, by adding the word "peaceful" they want to give the impression that the bedroom is like a summer garden with butterflies fluttering around... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2014-02-18 12:40:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- this is probably the ad Jessica trying to remember http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0rXFhsM8w -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2014-02-18 17:50:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- So, it seems, now I've had a chance to look at the ad (never saw it before) this writer IS basically saying that ads like these for insomnia medication are really claiming more than they can deliver... All these people sleeping peacefully with a butterfly fluttering from house to house...oh and there is a "crescent moon" in the sky as well (at end of ad...) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2014-02-19 09:57:39 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The English is still a bit OTT as there is only ONE butterfly (not plural) though really butterflies are usually diurnal while moths fly at night, but then people don't really rave about beautiful moths either, do they? Also, I saw a couple of refs. to white butterflies" (which this one seems to be) being the symbol of death so, does this mean people sleep like the dead??? http://kc.8m.com/bflysym.html |
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12 hrs peer agreement (net): +1 |
| Reference: watch for a minute and the butterfly will appear Reference information: http://www.lunesta.com/ -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 hrs (2014-02-19 01:11:22 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- moths, not butterflies |
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