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The turkey from Turkey
By: Nikola Date: September 15, 2019, 12:45 pm
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Are there any country names in any of the languages you know,
that also mean something else? Anything like Turkey - turkey? I
can only think of not Poland but Polish - polish in English. In
Czech, "Peru" also means "I'm doing the laundry" and "Kuba"
(Cuba) is a male name and also a dish made from mushrooms and
pearl barley.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Chizuko hanji Date: September 15, 2019, 8:18 pm
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This video is the perfect answer to your question. The last 15
seconds is funny. You will laugh!
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pnec4Hxps
When she said Europe is a country, only a few people laughed.
Most of audience seems to agree with her. It's normal. I had
thought Africa is one big country for a long time.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: MartinSR Date: September 16, 2019, 3:41 am
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If I remember it well, the fruit salad is called "Macedonia" in
a few countries (including Italy).
I've heard a few Polish people using the word "Amerykanka" for a
kind of sofa-bed (we call it "wersalka" more often, after the
residence of French kings).
An African country Chad is written "Czad" in Polish, and this
word means also carbon monoxide (the poisonous product of an
incomplete carbon burning) and is sometimes used in slang speech
as a synonymous with the good entertainment at a party or a rock
concert.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: SuKi Date: September 22, 2019, 9:04 am
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And just to confuse things further:
In Portuguese, 'peru' means 'turkey'. The bird, not the
country.
And in English, a swede is both a root vegetable and an
inhabitant of Stockholm.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Nikola Date: September 23, 2019, 3:24 am
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Thank you SuKi. So if peru is turkey but Peru is Peru, they face
the same problem. Chizuko's comment made me realise that on the
pronunciation level, there are more words like this: the whales
of Wales and the lovely finish of the Finnish furniture...
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: SuKi Date: September 23, 2019, 12:12 pm
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Chizuko's comment made me realise that on the pronunciation
level, there are more words like this: the whales of Wales and
the lovely finish of the Finnish furniture...
Indeed. A Finn, a Swede and a Thai are all objects as well as
people.
And back to countries that are also animals and/or food - don't
forget Laos and Chile.
And remember that if Kim Jong Un spoke English with an RP
accent, he'd be sure to emphasise the importance of his
'career'.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Nikola Date: September 23, 2019, 3:04 pm
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I like my turkey chile served on china.
Wow, Laos... I wasn't sure how it was pronounced. I had to
check.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: SuKi Date: September 23, 2019, 4:36 pm
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Anyone know how to make a Venetian blind?
A Swiss roll?
A Maltese cross?
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Nikola Date: September 24, 2019, 2:33 am
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I know how to make a Mexican wave and I've seen a Pole dance but
I couldn't make a Swiss watch.
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Aliph Date: September 24, 2019, 5:28 pm
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Nobody ever heard of French kisses?
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