Re: CHAT: coincidence
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 22, 2006, 15:42 |
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Ignore the bogus Reply-To and reply on-list, please.
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Sraelisk.org" <epost@...>
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>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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