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From: "michael poxon" <m.poxon@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: CHAT: False friends - echos from the mother tounge
> I think it was George Orwell in 'Homage to Catalonia' (but I could be way
> off beam here!) who cited the example of a guy trying to get into France,
> who invariably gave his name to the authorities as m.Merdes of Spanish
> descent, and was always at pains to stress the fact that the name was
> Spanish rather than French. But isn't the Spanish equivalent of 'merde'
> similar to the French one? Forgive me, the only Spanish I know is through
> translated bits from Basque!
IIRC(which I probably don't), the spanish one is "Mierde"[mierde]
> Mike
>
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