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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: MartinSR Date: October 7, 2019, 7:16 am
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Oh. The real explanation of the "Czech movie" phrase is more
simple than I expected. There was a movie called "Nobody knows
anything":
HTML https://cs.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/czeski_film
So they started to say: "Nikt nic nie wie - czeski film", and
the whole phrase has been shortened later.
The title has multiple negations so the title doesn't look so
nice in English as in Slavic and Romance languages ;)
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
By: Aliph Date: October 7, 2019, 9:48 am
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[quote author=Chizuko link=topic=1369.msg19492#msg19492
date=1569640068]
Some people call it "a baguette". I doubt they know the meaning.
I don't know either. Is it a French word?
[/quote]
It is a French word. It means small stick. It is a typical
white crispy French bread. Some might be quite long. Maybe you
saw them in a movie.
About Spaghetti (Napoletana Japanese style) with Ketchup... are
you sure it isn't a simple tomato sauce (an onion, some tomatos,
herbs, salt, cooked a very long time: the longer the better)?
Ketchup has tomatos, lots of sugar and vinegar in it!
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