Re: Bunty.
| From: | ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 22, 2008, 16:49 |
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Ph.D. wrote:
>>Den 20. jun. 2008 kl. 17.26 skrev Peter Collier:
>>>
>>>I just love 'Bintland' - it conjures up such a
>>>marvellous mental image of some kind of theme park of 'ill repute'.
>>
>>I see, so the connection is that obvious. I thought 'bint' was rather an
>>obscure word. At least Matthew Reilly, my latest translation victim, seems
>>to think you need to be somewhat familiar with Arabic to recognise it.
>
>Well, I've never run across that word here in the United States.
>
We haven't had large numbers of randy men hanging around in Arabic speaking
countries for a sufficient length of time. I'm sure the troops in Iraq know
the word, but whether they'll bring it back home is debatable. Most of the
German/Japanese/Korean slang from those occupations seems to have died out.
I can't think of a single Vietnamese term that's made it home. (At least in
civilian usage.) But of course I don't get around much
anymore................
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