A Portugese Question

RobT · 31st July 2006, 04:14 AM

Hi All,
Much like the parlor game of telephone, perhaps the key lies neither in Portugese nor in Indonesian but in what the Indonesians thought they heard the Portugese say. For example, the currently correct Beijing is a far cry from the Peking I learned in grade school. To get even closer to home (for those of us that count English as a first language) compare what the Anglo Saxons made of the French they were forced to adopt to the original French. We as blade collectors can listen to khanjar/hanger and saifr/sabre/saber.
Sincerely,
RobT

31st July 2006, 04:14 AM	#11
RobT Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 547	telephone? Hi All, Much like the parlor game of telephone, perhaps the key lies neither in Portugese nor in Indonesian but in what the Indonesians thought they heard the Portugese say. For example, the currently correct Beijing is a far cry from the Peking I learned in grade school. To get even closer to home (for those of us that count English as a first language) compare what the Anglo Saxons made of the French they were forced to adopt to the original French. We as blade collectors can listen to khanjar/hanger and saifr/sabre/saber. Sincerely, RobT