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FWIW, "forks" is "tenedores" in Spanish... not that that illuminates the mystery.
by FabHK 2y ago
FWIW, "forks" is "tenedores" in Spanish... not that that illuminates the mystery.
- cdelsolar 2y agoYes also means "Y"s in some dialects of Spanish, like the plural of the letter Y. Maybe since the Y looks like a fork there must be some bizarre neural network connection there?
- wiml 2y agoIt's not unheard-of for English speakers to use it that way — "I was driving down the road and came to a Y", meaning a fork or branch.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoAnd then it got turned into a word: wye.
- tgv 2y agoSpanish youngster wants to learn English, and finds the office of a language school. He enters, finds the office of the principal, and knocks on the door. After a short while, he hears: "If, if, between, between!"
- kikokikokiko 2y agoThis unfortunately reminds me of the level of english guidance my "teacher" would provide at 5th grade down here in Brazil. At least I learned to use a dictionary.
- schoen 2y agoThere's a joke in Portuguese where "entre, meu bem" is translated to English as "between, my well" (in context it should be "come in, my dear").