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AgentWood wrote:
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: It was January 3093 When Christy came on with a yoda for me
star wars is set in the past.
a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
january 40,000 BC?
Really? Oops I didn't know that. I thought it's a movie about a future Earth. Well anyway, take it as it is :)
I love the word hooligan. I'm glad it's still used in English, though not very often. Yet it's a very common word in Russian - moreover the term hooliganism is officially consolidated in Russian jurisprudence, there are some laws against it.
Not sure about Germany.
Spotnick wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
Old Blue wrote: Just a little quiz whilst your pondering the subject matter...
What word is spelled the same and has the same meaning in the most languages?
do you mean spelled in the latin alphabet? this would narrow it down to several language families, making it easier.
I'm pretty sure Bere got it right...
Sex... although it's Sexe in french ;)
Obviously one of the biggest issues with learning french for english native is the gender of THINGS... they just don't get it (neither do I, but we have to deal with it hehe)
A chair is a SHE, a desk is a HE... don't ask me why!
In olde French, there was three genders, like latin. The neutral form disappeared and became masculin. That is why there is more male than female gender in modern French.
By the way, German and Slavic languages still have three genders. On the other hand, Finnish (& Estonian) as well as Hungarian do not have any gender...
