Re: Varon

At 12:26 PM 1/20/02 -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
>IIRC, I recently spotted "chalupa" [in real life, a Taco Bell delicacy] in
>someone's conlang.
    There's probably more than enough of that to go around in just about
any conlang -- or natlang, for that matter.
    Take the word "yen," for example: a yearning desire in English, a unit
of money in Japanese, and something else in Vietnamese (I knew a Vietnamese
girl once named Yen).
    Or the name Ringo.  You've all heard of Ringo Starr, who took his first
name from Western gunslinger Johnny Ringo (Mr. Starr's birth name is
Richard Starkey); Ringo also happens to be a man's first name in Japanese.
    Or, more to the tone of the conversation (as far as I've read anyway),
the American TV show "Joanie Loves Chachi," where the latter is a common
nickname Italian but also the Korean word for a little boy's "private part."
    I can hardly wait to find out what extremely rude (or just plain funny)
words in unfamiliar languages I've put into Rav Zarruvo....

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