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05-25-2010, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
 
Here's my "clothes label" guess (abbreviated form and also a wild guess to test my abilities): 洗濯機挿入禁止

I'd love to have a native chime in on their opinion of my all-kanji attempt (tried to go for something that could be printed on a clothes label of a form like 駐車禁止 for "NO PARKING" signs).
By far the most natural all-kanji phrase for a label would be:

洗濯機使用不可

禁止 is way too heavy a word for this. This is not about a law.

挿入 doesn't mean "inserting tangible things as clothes". It means inserting a song into a scene in a drama or inserting an illustration into a book. Another meaning is inserting with some effort something into a space that is barely large enough. In another words, it doesn't mean "tossing something into someplace".

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