Re: Words with multiple meanings across languages
From: Douglas G. Kilday (fufluns_at_chorus.net)
Date: 10/06/04
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:12:00 -0000
"Jacques Guy" <jguy@alphalink.com.au> wrote ...
> Well, "across languages", wasn't it?
> So I contribute the first example:
>
> "MEAT SALE"
>
> The languages being English and French.
The U.S. Navy used to publish a journal called NAVSEA. I think this was a
bureaucratic abbreviation for 'Naval Sea Systems Command' or the like, but
it makes perfect sense in Latin.
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