Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, michael poxon <m.poxon@V...> wrote:
 > And wasn't there the case of the car manufacturer who produced a
"pinto" and
 > found that it didn't sell at all well in Brazil, where (I think) it means
 > "little willy" or something like that. When I started to learn
Hungarian, I
 > remember being amused by the fact that 'trees' came out as /fa:k/.

That reminds me of a line in Stabat Mater that started
with "fac me [tecum pie flere]" and ended in "[donec ego]
vixero", which is especially funny from a German point of
view.  =D


-- Christian Thalmann

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