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Re: CHAT: coincidence

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Monday, May 22, 2006, 15:42
Ignore the bogus Reply-To and reply on-list, please.

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>From: "Sraelisk.org" <epost@...> > >My father, also a conlanger, criticized me when I coined the Sraelish >word for "cow", which is "kue" /ky/, because it sounds very similar to the >Portuguese word "cu", which means "ass" - a taboo word down here . ;-)
I heard that the character Count Dookoo in the Star Wars prequels was renamed in the Portuguese-language version(s), to avoid his name being "Count Of Ass". Paul

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