Re: Spanish education

At 12:31 PM 3/12/02 +0100, Antonio WARD wrote:
>1) The word used in Venezuela (where I come from) for a "baseball cap" and
>the word venezuelans use for "shell" are considered vulgarities in Argentina
>and they designate the vagina.
>
>2) The same things happens with with the word Venezuelans use for "jacket"
>which means "vagina" (in slang) in Mexico.
    As others have pointed out, the same phenomenon happens in English
(and, no doubt, many other languages as well).  I'd like to share one
particular anecdote from many years ago.
    An English comedian by the name of Frankie Howard was in the United
States for the first time, to work on the film "Sargeant Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band."  He had come across the Atlantic without any tobacco,
and wanted to buy some cigarettes, so he approached a New York police
officer and asked where he could get some.  Unfortunately he didn't realize
that the British slang word for cigarette -- "fag" -- is American slang for
homosexual.

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