Round and Round They Go
Feb. 17th, 2006 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinHAHAH! This is hilarious. Almost a week ago my sister and I were joking about renaming Danishes, and here, they've gone and done it!
I prefer our name, though ... 'Infidel Pastries' has such a better ring to it.
If, as quoted by Ronald Wright, 'Every time history repeats itself the price goes up,' would these be very expensive confections?
I prefer our name, though ... 'Infidel Pastries' has such a better ring to it.
If, as quoted by Ronald Wright, 'Every time history repeats itself the price goes up,' would these be very expensive confections?
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:19 am (UTC)although i didn't know there was even a market for Danishes in Iran.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 06:35 am (UTC)Apple Roses of the Prophet Mohammed. Try saying that five times fast!
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:37 am (UTC)In a less amusing historical point of interest, back during WWII, we renamed Hamburgers and Sauerkraut to "Liberty Sausage" and "Liberty Cabbage" to spite the Germans.
Just saying.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:39 am (UTC)Malaysia is a largely Muslim country. In Malay, to pluralise something, you say it twice. So, if you wanted two apple danishes, would you say 'Apple Rose of the Prophet Mohammed Apple Rose of the Prophet Mohammed'?
(Any thoughts on this, A²?)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:46 am (UTC)Surely renaming sauerkraut 'Liberty Cabbage' would imply that liberty was fermented and sour? The affront to patriotism!
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Date: 2006-02-18 07:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 09:19 am (UTC)Roses of the prophet muhammed! LMAO!
and we danes uses to call these "danish pastries" FRIKADELLER so weird named and i really dont fancy these "roses" taste anyway ;D
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:22 am (UTC)but I didnt knew you could buy dansih pastries in Iran O.o
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Date: 2006-02-18 09:27 am (UTC)i actually cant se what it is on the picture...i looks like 2 very different danish meals O.o
im so confused...
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Date: 2006-02-18 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 10:06 am (UTC)All through this row over cartoons, I've been thinking that Mohammed would have been horrified at what his followers were doing in his name.
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Date: 2006-02-18 10:48 am (UTC)Cultural parellels should bring our countries together! Not tear them apart. America! Seize this moment.
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Date: 2006-02-18 12:33 pm (UTC)pastries is called VANDBAGGELSER
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Date: 2006-02-18 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 07:35 pm (UTC)And yay for Ronald Wright!
Si, es verdad
Date: 2006-02-18 08:26 pm (UTC)How they would handle this case, I'm not sure, they would probably add "banyak" instead of double-stating the subject. Banyak means "many."
Malay is very cool. In Malaysia of old times (before the British) there was no ice. When ice showed up, the Malays needed a name for it, so they combined their words for water (ayer) and stone (batu) and came up with ayer batu. Batu is also the Malay word for "Mile" because the British put up mile stones on the major roads. These were literal stones with the mileage to the next town inscribed on them.
A2
P.S. The next part I'm going to audition for is Brutus in "Julius Caesar," just to see my moniker and that part in combination.
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Date: 2006-02-18 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-18 10:50 pm (UTC)That just sounds like a badly translated euphemism, doesn't it?
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Date: 2006-02-18 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 08:16 am (UTC)Perdon, senior - una question, por favor...
Date: 2006-02-19 08:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-19 09:28 am (UTC)'Has anyone considered the irony of what the rioters seem to be saying? "Mohammed is not the leader of a violent and irrational religion and we'll blow up anyone who says he is"?'