>>>>>>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
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>>>>>What do you call dogs that can't see?
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>>>>You don't, but they still come.
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>>>Hmmm... That's the answer to 'How do you call dogs that can't see'.
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>>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...
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>For the first, we would say "Which door is this?". The second case, yes, we would use 'what'.
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>>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.
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>Yep. I never got over the fact that in French, one doesn't ask "How are you?", but instead, "How do you go?" , or, I suppose, "How are you going?", to which we, in English, would answer, "By bus."

Actually, the French more often say "how is it going?" ("Comment ca va?" or just "Ca va?"), which we do casually. I've rarely heard "comment allez-vous". When being introduced they'd say, formerly "Enchante".