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Belotta
Feb 1, 2007 11:03
17 yrs ago
English term

Lost in colors

English Social Sciences Tourism & Travel hotel room
Original text: Deluxe Oriental Suites
Fine linens to touch and silk matting underfoot. Bathrooms finished in jade green with pounded copper and pools of red lacquer. A particularly versatile space as the adjoining living area holds another bed, making this an ideal suite for families travelling in style. Silent views of the busy harbour are quite hypnotic.

Question: Is jade green colour a result of the pounded copper? Does pool here refer to bathtub rather than the bathroom itself? How can the bathroom be painted in both jade green and red at the same time？

Thank you very much.
Responses
4 +4 Jade green and pounded copper are separate things.
5 +1 Explanation below
4 +1 See below...

Discussion

Edward LIU (asker) Feb 4, 2007:
Thank you all very much for your kind assistance.
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
I just think "pools" of lacquer evokes splotches, puddles -I can't find another connection!(Doesn't mean it's not there though:) !)I don't think it's"wrong",but it doesn't strike me as typical language(perhaps I don't spend enough time in luxury hotels!)
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
On closer inspection in the photo gallery they look like stone basins :( it's quite a puzzle! Perhaps they are referring to all the red lacquer on the walls and furniture...
William [Bill] Gray Feb 1, 2007:
I'm afraid I disagree with the critics of the language here! I see this as excellent advertising copy, with the correct linguistic register for guests accustomed to luxury and modern decor. Shortened sentences, yes, but correct in detail. :-)
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
The bathroom in the "oriental suite" must be different to the deluxe. It was the lacquered basins in the other room's picture that caught my eye though - I've just noticed there's also a photo gallery... have a look there maybe??
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
Yes, I see what you mean - The description makes reference to this beautiful bathroom and there is only a picture of the living room, makes it a little difficult for you! As everyone has said below though, "finished" is most likely to mean painted here.
Edward LIU (asker) Feb 1, 2007:
To Melissa Stanfield, Thank you very much for your showing me the details of the room picture. That is exactly what confuses me most as there doesn't seem to be any jade green color in the bathroom. Perhaps this is not the right picture?
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
may be your 'pools' ;)
Melissa Stanfield Feb 1, 2007:
It does "read like a translation", as they say - or perhaps is written in a "Hong Kong English" rather than a Western English - there is a tinge of the foreign about it's style.
On the site, there are pictures of what look like "tubs" or "basins" - which
Ken Cox Feb 1, 2007:
The English here (and generally speaking on the website where this comes from) is slightly dodgy.

Responses

+4
8 mins
Selected

Jade green and pounded copper are separate things.

I think jade green is the color of the paint. Pounded copper, or beaten or hammered copper, refers to sheet metal copper used somewhere in the decor, either as a tiled part of the wall or of the surface in which the washbasin is set, or both. I don't think "pools" of red lacquer is meant literally here, the red lacquer is another feature of the decor, in patterned patches of some kins, probably on the walls.


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Note added at 43 mins (2007-02-01 11:47:21 GMT)
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Should read: "...patterned patches of some kind..."
Peer comment(s):
agree William [Bill] Gray : SNAP!
1 min
Thank you.
agree Melissa Stanfield : Definitely separate things. Having looked at the picture of the hotel I 'think' you are referring to, there is lots of red-lacquered furniture/but under the picture above - "oriental suite"- there is what looks like a red lacquer tub beside a ceramic one?
5 mins
Thank you. What picture on what site? How did you find it?
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
26 mins
Thank you.
agree juvera : http://www.mandarinoriental.com/hotelsite/chain/507/scripts/... The text is elswhere on the website.Very little red lacquer, but the bathroom incidentals are jade green. :-)
4 hrs
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+1
8 mins

See below...

The "jade green" is the colour of some of the furnishings (sofa, curtains, or something) while the "pounded copper" and "pools of red lacquer," are probably fittings (the copper) and paint (the red, on the walls or the floor, as in tiles, or something similar).

The "pools" are metaphorical, as in "areas"; metaphor is a common ploy in advertisements.

Hope this helps you!



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Note added at 9 mins (2007-02-01 11:13:18 GMT)
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Sorry, didn't read you text carefully enough. The jade green is obviously the overall colour of the bathroom, complemented by the other two colours.
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack Doughty : As you say, SNAP!
35 mins
Thanks, Jack!
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+1
10 mins

Explanation below

The bathrooms are painted in jade green.
They are decorated with pounded copper and pools/swirls of red c- as trimmings.
Pools has nothing to do with the bathtub.

Pools of color or swirls or drops are the finishing touches.

The bathroom is not painted in two or more colors.

It is painted/finished in jade green and the other colors are used to decorate.
Is this clearer?
Peer comment(s):
agree astroo13 : I agree 100 percent
6 hrs
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