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1monster

(11,045 posts) Sat May 24, 2014, 11:46 AM May 2014

God help the English Learner...

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God help the English Learner... (Original Post) 1monster May 2014 OP

Further illustrated: 1monster May 2014 #1

Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough." immoderate May 2014 #2

You got me -- unless it is some person's family name... 1monster May 2014 #3

What's in a name? DFW May 2014 #4

Or the Austrian town of Fucking. mwooldri May 2014 #6

Park on a driveway, drive on a parkway. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2014 #5

1monster

(11,045 posts)

1. Further illustrated:

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 11:59 AM

May 2014

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

2. Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough."

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 12:15 PM

May 2014

What do you call these?

--imm

1monster

(11,045 posts)

3. You got me -- unless it is some person's family name...

Reply to immoderate (Reply #2)

Sat May 24, 2014, 12:18 PM

May 2014

In that case, there was a guy who wrote a college text on the history of the western world who spelled his name that way. The professor always referred to him as Clog with the "o" pronounced as the "o" in "flow".

But your guess is as good as mine.

DFW

(60,457 posts)

4. What's in a name?

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 12:26 PM

May 2014

Ponder the situation of this family business in Germany:

http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/das-unternehmen.html

And it's CEO: Heinz Günter Fücker

mwooldri

(10,827 posts)

6. Or the Austrian town of Fucking.

Reply to DFW (Reply #4)

Sun May 25, 2014, 10:43 AM

May 2014

Or the other languages that have words when read in English have a very different meaning.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)

5. Park on a driveway, drive on a parkway. nt

Reply to 1monster (Original post)

Sun May 25, 2014, 08:50 AM

May 2014

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