Rengi, derinin

08:03 Dec 4, 2012 

Thank you, Atıl Bey

20:21 Dec 3, 2012 

I agree with Gannush's comments and translation. If we take the original Turkish sentence, and try to break it into (grammatical) parts, it would be:

Çantasinin rengi, / derinin kirinden / belirsizlesmisti.

If we do the same for the English translation, it would be:

The color of her bag / had become indistinguisable / from the dirt of the leather.

On the other hand, I think the last example Alvin Parmar gives is an excellent one to show the significance of a comma in a sentence. "Deli arkadasini öldürdü" versus "Deli, arkadasini öldürdü."

19:49 Dec 3, 2012 

On second thought, I can see why you have mistranslated. Because you didn't take notice of the comma used there. Hence you misinterpreted the phrase. To avoid such confusions, it's a common practice to put a comma just after the subject.

19:45 Dec 3, 2012 

You're mistranslating. The correct translation would be:

The colour of her bag had become indistinguishable from the dirt of the leather.

Here, the comma is used to avoid confusion that the word "rengi" forms a genitive with the word "derinin". It shows that the subject of this phrase is "cantasinin rengi". After this word block (cantasinin rengi), the object word block starts.

But it's not necassary to use a comma here at all. If the comma was omitted, it would still be a perfectly meaningful phrase.