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* Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o> [120307 21:25]: |
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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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It has the same meaning in English as well. The tide can ebb. |
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Also, there are ebb tides (and neap tides as well.) |
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Todd |
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