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Re: Spanish education

From:Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 12, 2002, 23:33
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. --- Bob's Original Hero Stuff Page! [Circle of HEROS member] http://www.angelfire.com/super2/bobgreenwade/original.htm Music from Bob's Computer! (CD now available!) http://mp3.com/BobsComputer Want more hits to your web page? http://nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi?referrer=bobgreenwade http://ads.clickthru.net/bannerlink?host=264157&ban=4

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