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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: SuKi
Date: September 25, 2019, 2:36 am
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Mais oui. Who could resist French kisses?
And while we're in a romantic mood, there's a tiny island off
the west coast of Scotland called the Isle of Ewe. Guess how
it's pronounced?
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Nikola
Date: September 25, 2019, 3:23 am
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--- Quote from: SuKi link ---
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> And while we're in a romantic mood, there's a tiny island off
the west coast of Scotland called the Isle of Ewe. Guess how
it's pronounced?
>
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That's kind of cute. I was just preparing something for a lesson
about Hawaii, thought the kids might like this. Let me share
some lava with you, too ;)
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4dTLJ9q9o
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Sudeep
Date: September 27, 2019, 2:05 pm
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It may sound strange but a turkey is not called a turkey in
Turkey. They are called "Hindi". But Indian have no idea that
Turkey was a Indian citizen! 😀
HTML https://scroll.in/video/822414/watch-why-the-thanksgiving-bird-turkey-is-called-hindi-in-turkey-and-indian-chicken-in-france
This video is interesting which shows how poor turkey is being
mistaken by many names around the world. :)
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Chizuko hanji
Date: September 27, 2019, 10:07 pm
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There is a word, 'France pan' in Japanese. Can you guess what it
is? It's not a kitchen tool.　
'Pan' in Japanese means bread. There was no bread until the
Portuguese brought pão (bread) to Japan until 16 century. We
call bread pan (pão). Even it is French bread and we call it in
Portuguese. Some people call it "a baguette". I doubt they know
the meaning. I don't know either. Is it a French word?
There is a dish, 'Napolitan spaghetti' that most Japanese love.
It's cooked with a lot of ketchup, no piece of tomatoes. I heard
that people from Napoli came and ate it in Japan. All of them
said, "This is not Napolitan spaghetti" :D
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Chizuko hanji
Date: September 27, 2019, 10:18 pm
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--- Quote from: Nobody, a fake and a liar link ---
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> Nobody ever heard of French kisses?
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　I heard it many times but I don't know exactly. How do
you do that? haha! Anyway, it reminds of me an old love story
movie, French Kiss of Meg Ryan. It is a good movie. I watched
three times.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3W5oAOZAWY
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Chizuko hanji
Date: September 27, 2019, 10:24 pm
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--- Quote from: SuKi link ---
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> Mais oui. Who could resist French kisses?
>
> And while we're in a romantic mood, there's a tiny island off
the west coast of Scotland called the Isle of Ewe. Guess how
it's pronounced?
>
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I had no idea, so I used the Google translator and the English
voice. Aha! I got it!
I haven't said to my husband, "Isle of Ewe" recently..... ;D
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Aliph
Date: September 28, 2019, 2:24 am
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--- Quote from: Sunshine link ---
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> It may sound strange but a turkey is not called a turkey in
Turkey. They are called "Hindi". But Indian have no idea that
Turkey was a Indian citizen! 😀
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>
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Great website and video, Sunshine.
But in French it is simply called DINDE!
In Arabic it’s ديك
رومي (deek roomy) = Roman chicken
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Aliph
Date: September 28, 2019, 2:27 am
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--- Quote from: Chizuko link ---
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> [quote author=Nobody, a fake and a liar
link=topic=1369.msg19488#msg19488 date=1569364129]
> Nobody ever heard of French kisses?
>
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　I heard it many times but I don't know exactly. How do
you do that? haha!
[/quote]
There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube! ;)
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: Aliph
Date: September 28, 2019, 2:46 am
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--- Quote from: MartinSR link ---
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> If I remember it well, the fruit salad is called "Macedonia"
in a few countries (including Italy).
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Indeed Martin a fruit salad is called “macedonia di frutta” in
Italian.
Did you ever eat an “insalata russa”?
It’s cold cooked small bits of carrots, mixed with peas and
other unidentifiable vegetables (usually canned), drowned in a
heavy mayonnaise sauce.
Mayonnaise has also a geographical origin. Some say it comes
from the name Mahon, one of the Balearic Islands.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonnaise
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
DIR By: MartinSR
Date: October 1, 2019, 4:15 pm
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--- Quote from: Nobody, a fake and a liar link ---
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> [quote author=MartinSR link=topic=1369.msg19467#msg19467
date=1568623294]
> If I remember it well, the fruit salad is called "Macedonia"
in a few countries (including Italy).
>
>
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Indeed Martin a fruit salad is called “macedonia di frutta” in
Italian.
Did you ever eat an “insalata russa”?
It’s cold cooked small bits of carrots, mixed with peas and
other unidentifiable vegetables (usually canned), drowned in a
heavy mayonnaise sauce.
Mayonnaise has also a geographical origin. Some say it comes
from the name Mahon, one of the Balearic Islands.
HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonnaise
[/quote]
Oh. The Russian salad. I saw this name while being somewhere in
the West of Europe. We make the salad of cooked potatoes, peas
and carrots drowned in mayonnaise... but we just call it the
'mayonnaise salad' (sałatka z majonezem).
We sometimes use geographical names of food, even if thus type
of food is completely unknown in the country the name of which
we use.
But now about something different than food. Have you heard
about 'French disease'? They used to call it French or German
disease here, while English disease in France and Polish disease
in Russia... The names show potential ways of spreading of...
syphilis.
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