Fwd: [SEELANGS] : "Pots.."

[John Dunn]

Not so much a change of gender perhaps, as a change of image: on this side of the Atlantic we talk about twin cities; the same image is used in French and Italian, though not, as far as I can tell, in German (die Partnerstadt). 

John Dunn.
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Fwd: [SEELANGS] : "Pots.."

Reminds me of a very old joke:

Города‒побратимы (sister cities, why gender change?): Херсон и Потсдам.


On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:19 AM, Vitalii Cherednichenko wrote:

Fwd: [SEELANGS] :   "Pots.."


it was just way too close to the obscene Yiddish borrowing (as it sounds).

Alina Israeli
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