Languages (was Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting)

[Philippa Alderton]

--- Nanna skrev:
 And even if you
> think you understand every
> word, there are many pitfalls - for example, the
> word "epli" is used in both
> languages but in Icelandic it means "apple", in
> Faroese it means "potato".

Actually, French isn't that far off. In French, an
apple is a "pomme", and a potato is a "pomme du terre"
an "apple of the earth".

Phlip


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