Travelling across continents, some little things stuns me. We all know Tortillas are like Chapathis, but did you know Chimichanga is like indian Poori. And “Goiya” in Madras(Indian) Tamil and Sao Paulo(Brazilian) Portuguese means same double meaning (stupid fool / gauva fruit). Malakan in Greek and Maakan in Tamil also means same (jerk) and can be used to refer a friend.
Happy Travels
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Curious // July 6, 2008 at 4:27 am
hahahaaa… Actually.. Didn’t we get these words from Portuguese from long back ???
Reading this was like watching discovery… they have these bits that feature” Follow a sneeze around the world” and likes..
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