DZiW (X) Apr 23, 2009:

It's a pity I haven't encountered this pun, but 1) wine is used as adjective here (e.g. a stone wall)<br>2) wine also means "dark red" which was my first idea regarding the 'cleaners', but you said it was a pun...<br>3) in Ukrainian 'ЩО,ЯКИЙ" may refer both persons (alive) and things (lifeless), but regarding the antecedent it should refer to the noun '... cleaners' IMO<br>4) Google knows all NOT ;)<br>Thanks for lica

Ivan Petryshyn (asker) Apr 23, 2009:

a wine vacuum cleaners vendor syndrome (degree updating)
Dear Madam:
The phrase is only a words coinage, it has a jokingly sarcastic value and has nothing to do with a device!!! It is a testing phrase for logical solving questions in the line of translating; the real translation should be: PRODAVETS' PYLOSOSIV/POROKHOVBYRACHIV, SHCHO POLYUBLAYE VYNO- please, be careful with the logics: if something is not known, GOOGLE THAT! its' a shame to translate the phrase that has no logics in itself! Ivan Petryshyn, DR

DZiW (X) Apr 23, 2009:

Hello Ivan Considering that 'vendor' is used as 'seller' we've got 2 variants because the word 'position' can be either as 'posture, pose' or 'job,post'. So I guess:<br>1) поза торговця винопилососів<br>2) посада торговця винопилососів<br>Also we can paraphrase 'vaccumcleaner' as 'vacuum-sucker'...Pretty pfunny, but you'd rather specify the points.<br>Cheers ;)<br>_P.S._ "Chas I podiyi"

Nadiia and Vatslav Yehurnovy Apr 23, 2009:

wine vacuum cleaner... Does such a device really exist? And as for the pun of the phrase: is it supposed to mean also something like "drunkard"?