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Re: jäätelötötteröt etc.

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, December 20, 2003, 23:06
Christian Thalmann wrote:

> > > > BTW, I totally agree that <jäätelötötteröt> sounds very funny... But > what do you mean by "ice cream cups"? > > Ummm... a cup of ice cream? Where's the problem? If > you speak German (as your name suggests), it would be > "Eiskrembecher", or more clinically, "Speiseeisbecher".
I'm sure there are plenty of Jungs who don't speak German, even if he is not neccesarily one of them. Of course, in English, "Ice cream cup" would describe only the container (ie. A cup which is designed to hold ice cream)

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M. Astrand <ysimiss@...>