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From
17/01/2006 23:30:59
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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17/01/2006 11:01:38
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Politics
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01085195
Message ID:
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>>>>Citron is French (and similar in many Euro lang's) FOR lemon. So is citron Yiddish or something and what fruit is "like" a lemon but not one - a lime?
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>>>A limon...
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>>What the Sam Hill is that? but another French word for lemon?
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>Who exactly is Sam Hill anyway?
>
>>Or did you mean liek a "tigon" is a cross tiger-lion? :-)
>
>Yep! There was an ad around a few years ago that used "limon" to mean lemon-lime.

Don't. Just don't. I just saw that the Croatian word-mint has come with "limunika" (sounds like a "lemonica") for the fruit-de-grape (which is one of those impossible names given to "exotic" plants during the exploration/conquista phase). And now if limon is introduced... that'll create a complete mess in any language it's translated into. AFAIK, lemon is "limun" in Serbian, Croatian and a few others; "limon" in Russian, "citron" in Hungarian, French and a few others, "Zitron" in German... and I don't even know the name for lime in most of these. Now try to translate "limon"... it'll be a mess, and I'm reserving the front row seat to watch it.

By "you" I meant the guy who invented the word.

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