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Thu Sep-03-09 10:09 AM
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66. It looks like that is the trend with many modern languages spoken over a wide geographical area

Some of the slang my younger daughter picked up with in school in Hawai'i and DC needed to be
explained to me, and her native language isn't even English.

One guy I know from Guatemala visited Spain for the first time, and asked at Barajas airport where
he could rent a "carro." He wanted to rent a car, which would have been a carro in Guatemala. In
Spain, however, a car is still a "coche" and a "carro" is a wooden cart drawn by a beast of burden.
The Madrid rent-a-car staff laughed at him and told him there was a farm nearby that might have
some donkeys and "carros" to rent him.

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