On 13 May 2008 05:51:06 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Berg) wrote: >And in swedish the word "slut" is the same as "end"... > >You imagibe the problems that we have sometimes... :)
Every language I know has such puns. Remember when people talked about how Chevy Nova meant "won't go"? Sure "no va" means that, but "Nova" means the same thing in Spanish as it does in English". Snopes gives the example of buying a dinette set called "Notable", with English speakers not buying it because it has "no table". http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
