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Seeing Eye Dogs
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From
25/07/2008 09:04:02
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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25/07/2008 08:01:15
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Politics
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01333768
Message ID:
01334045
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>>>>BTW, in the UK we call them "Blind Dogs". It may sound a bit strange to you but, otoh, what the heck else is an eye for but for seeing
>>>
>>>What do you call dogs that can't see?
>>
>>You don't, but they still come.
>
>Hmmm... That's the answer to 'How do you call dogs that can't see'.

Ah, two things here. First, the lack of word for "what" instead of "what" in English, the first one asking for an adjective ("what door is this" - "a green one"), the latter one for definition ("what do we have here?", "a door"). I've seen this so many times...

The second is that, in most Slavic languages, Hungarian, German, Italian (and who knows how many others), the question is not "what do they call you", it's "how do they call you", or even "how's your name", never a what.

back to same old

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