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On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:36:05 -0500 |
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Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> wrote: |
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> FYI, any Russian speaker is *guaranteed* to read the name ".eb" as a |
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> very common obscenity. |
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In Dutch it means the low tide, and as a verb, it means "becoming low" |
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or "decreasing" as in the tide or some other fluid. |
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In English it means something very similar as in the Dutch verb, only |
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without the tidal reference. Other Germanic languages will probably |
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have their own variants. |
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In Crimean Tatar it apparently[1] references "easiness" or "simplicity", |
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in Hungarian it's the word for "dog", while in Nauruan it means |
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"country." |
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But that's not important right now (see also [2]). |
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The important thing to remember is, the bike shed protects our bicycles |
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from the elements. |
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[1] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eb |
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[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bytesex |
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