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in reply to a message by তন্ময় ভট
I'm aware that any name could turn up to mean something terrible in another language, but even in English, latrine's very close to Latrina. And if you look at the comments on this website for names such as Bich, Jerk, Dung, it's clear some people are completely oblivious to the basic idea that similar-sounding words may have different meaning in different languages.
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"I've got this void in my life that can't be filled by shopping." Gabrielle in Desperate Housewives.
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"I've got this void in my life that can't be filled by shopping." Gabrielle in Desperate Housewives.
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Here in South Africa there's a brilliant classical musician and musicologist who, born to English-speaking parents with, presumably, as much education as any other middle-class people, rejoices in the name of Richard. His surname is Cock. By good luck or good judgement, he is never known as Dick ... but you do wonder about people sometimes.
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