Koalan, Latin or just plain gobbledy gook?

Instructions and descriptions on some products from overseas countries regularly leave us scratching our heads as we try to interpret what the twisted 'English' really means. All part of the 'fun' when we purchase a cheap item manufactured overseas.

The latest fun and games have been provided by a koala-shaped silicone travel bottle, which retails for $4 at Kmart.

Instead of a standard safety message, the label contains what appears to be a random jumble of seemingly unintelligible words, news.com reports.

A shopper posted a photo of the packaging fail on Reddit, with the caption: "Thanks for the warning Kmart. It was very helpful."



The photo went viral, with one user joking: "Maybe the warning is in Koalan?"

The mystery was solved by another Reddit user who pointed out that the words were part of 'lorum ipsum' - standard dummy text used by the printing and typesetting industry before the correct words are inserted. But accidents and oversights happen.

The same user explained: "Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s... Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45BC, making it over 2000 years old."

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Reply to Beemee: Yes always check every label and if it is not clear I ring the company --if it is not ALL Aussie I do without it.


It is a bloody disgrace that this is allowed to happen, about time we closed all this China stuff FOR GOOD

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