Re: Newbie says hi

Padraic wrote:
 >Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Newbie says hi
>Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:48:59 -0800
>
>--- Amanda Babcock <langs@...> wrote:
>
> > (Hmm, that sounds kind of like something that would
> > be in a Pratchett book...)
>
>Close anyway. In one of the books he went on about
>Place Name Customs. You know, along the lines of
>"Great White Explorer Man barges up to native and
>shouts very loudly in English 'What is that place?' to
>which the native replies 'hmungdo nd amdo', which gets
>duly noted on maps as "Mungodamo" but actually means
>"What do you think it is, you stupid foreign git?" "
I seem to remember there's a Discworld placename of astonishingly few
syllables that manages to mean "Your finger, you idiot", because the Great
Pinkish Explorer pointed on the thing asking "What's that?", but I can't
find it at the moment.

                                                           Andreas

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