It'd be nice if the thing had instructions.

[bktheirregular]

My new washing machien has one major problem: I can't figure out what eighty percent of the controls are meant to do. As is my habit, I checked the manual; it was printed in something like eight different languages, none of which told me what most of the symbols on the control dial meant.

I'm hoping that it's just that I'm stupid, and that the controls are blindingly obvious to other people who care to look?

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[marthawells.livejournal.com]

The snowflake thingy might be a cold water rinse? It seems to come at the end of the cycles. The others to the bottom right could be drain, wring (where it goes around really fast to get the water out, whatever that's called) and maybe add fabric softener? The orange ones on the outside I have no idea about. I'd try experimentally running something through that it's hard to hurt, like a plain sheet, trying different cycles and just seeing what it does.

[bktheirregular]

Maybe. I think that if I could figure out the three orange icons - the leaf, the flask, and the cloud - I might be able to get somewhere...