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- Subject: Re: Announcement: The birth of Ophal Project
- From: Graham Wakefield <wakefield@...>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:48:47 -0700
Or the Vauxhall Nova for the Spanish-speaking world ("no va" = doesn't go...)
On Aug 18, 2011, at 3:31 AM, Peter Pimley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@interfree.it> wrote:
> I wonder how many English words mean something ugly in languages with a different origin (i.e. non-indoeuropean), say, Chinese, Japanese or Corean!
>
>
> Famously the Toyota "MR2" sports car just-about translates phonetically to "shit" in French.
>
> ("Em" - "Err" - "Deux" sounds like "Merde")
>
> Peter
