Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:07:47 -0500, Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> wrote:

>
> "Only"? I certainly wouldn't call over 11k hits "only". Now if it were only
> a few hundred hits, that would surely be rare, but with over 11k hits its at
> least somewhat common, even if some people apparently haven't heard of it
> yet. Well, now you have, and you can add it to your repertoire (oh damn, not
> another nasty French word - hope you guys can deal with it. My English
> dictionary does list it though.)
>
Well....

I've found 21,000 hits in English for Langka, but if you asked most
English speakers what it was, they'd give you a blank look (and I know
this from experience. I've discussed Filipino food in front of 20 - 30
classmates in University and they all ask me what that is, unless
they're Filipino).. I've found 60,800 hits for the English name,
Jackfruit, but I know few Americans who know what even *that* is, and
this area has large numbers of Filipino , Vietnamese, and Thai
immigrants, so it's not like langka would be difficult to get ahold
of.

I also found 10,500 hits for Sinigang, but again, I doubt you'll find
a lot of speakers of English who know what that is (it is a soup with
a tamarind base).

What's with the snippyness, Pascal?


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