Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 10, 2003, 21:32 |
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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/.
Mike
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