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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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!
Mike
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