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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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| Autor: | Dale-USA |
| E-mail: | dale_thomas2004@yahoo.com.br |
| Data: | 04/SET/2012 12:19 AM |
| Assunto: | Programa de índio |
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We have our share of NPC (not poltically correct) expressions in English too. An Indian giver, for example, is someone who gives you a present and later asks you to return it. Some say that "to gyp" (to cheat, swindle) from from the word gypsy. A Chinaman's chance is no chance at all. (He has a Chinaman's chance of surviving the desert without water.) Chinaman is considered an insulting way to say Chinese. To take French leave is to desert the military. And there are others... |
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