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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Chilean stuff #47544 11/10/01 11:34 PM Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 3 Valparaiso, Chile E EN.CL OP stranger OP EN.CL stranger E Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 3 Valparaiso, Chile There are a lot of borrowed words that I've learned over the past 7 years living here. For example, at 7 or 8 in the evening, Chileans take tea, usually a cup of instant coffee, or that horrible stuff that they call tea, and a piece of bread called marraqueta or an hallulla, the latter pronounced ah-yew-yah (with more of the "ll" sound of million). This meal is called "once" -- or the same as the number 11 in spanish. Some have told me that it came from the fact that in the 19th century, the English who had a meal at midday called it "lunch", and the chileans believed it to be "el once" -- perhaps even because it occurred near 11 am. I have also heard that it could be because the English called it "elevens". Another interesting thing I "discovered" was the term for peanuts is "mani" -- the final "i" accented, and pronounced man-EE. Think of the expression, working for peanuts... working for "mani" -- money?! <img src="http://en.cl/dave2a.jpg" alt="Don't go out in your underwear!"> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Chilean stuff #47545 11/11/01 12:02 AM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Hello, InCiel... Hallulla would have never brought bread, ah-yew-yah, or tea to this poor brain. Is it a decent-tasting bread? So, you sit in a cyber cafe and work on the Internet? Are you close to Santiago? We had a discussion on this board a few days back about a wind in Tunisia called the chili, but it wasn't pronounced anything like the country you now inhabit. Let me be one of the first to welcome you, and, from what I've gathered in my days spent here, everybody works for mani. Best regards, DubDub Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Chilean stuff #47546 11/11/01 03:03 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear EN.CL : At a site I cannot find again, I read about an interesting solution to supply drinking water to commnities somewhere in your part of South America. It consisted of capturing abundant dew on vegetation at fairly high elevations, and piping it to communities a long ways below, close to Pacific. Have you ever seen such an installation? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,328 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 783 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 15 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,539 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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