My dialect is completely opposite to english

Hi to everybody !
Old people in my country use to speak their dialect.
If they happen to have a journey to London, when they come back home they look a bit disoriented.
Of course they do !
Our dialect is opposite to the english language !
Do you want an example ?
Here it is:

"Bus" (that is also the "tall" London double decker bus) in my dialect means "short".

"Street" (that are also the London "broad" streets) in my dialect means "narrow".

"Horse" in my dialect means "Bear".

"Cold" in my dialect means "Hot".

"Women" in my dialect means "Men".

"Love me" in my dialect means "Wash me".


That's why old people of my country are a bit "disoriented" when they are in London... :hehe:

 

Remind me never to go to London.. I`m confused enough as It is :dh:

 

Hello Maksim

Yes, 'caldo' really should mean 'cold'. It's just too confusing for it to mean the opposite.

 

Hi Maksim,

Thats very confusing. We should all have the same language as the romans controlled us as well as you. I guess the saxons & normans got in the way.

What is Italian for Gardeners Corner ?

 

Here's why it means hot ClaraLou -

Our word 'cauldron' - a large pot for heating food comes from the Latin caldarium - a hot bath which is derived from calidus - 'warm'. Italian is very firmly rooted in Latin hence 'caldo'.

In French 'warm' is chaud which comes from the same Latin root.

Our 'hot' and 'cold' are from the Anglo-Saxon hat and ceald for which we have to blame the Saxons in the 5th century rather than that bunch who arrived earlier dressed in their tin and flannel speaking latin.
Modern German shows the Saxon origin in heiss' hot' and kalt 'cold'.

 

English owes a lot more to it's Germanic roots than most people are aware of. It always astounds me that schools teach French first, rather than German (especially as there are more German speakers than French speakers!).

 

I was watching something the other day in which someone pointed out that the Normans may have conquered England, taken away English lands and built lots of imposing castles but even they never really persuaded the English to speak French. Plus ça change.

 

0) In Portuguese it can be either Canto do Jardineiro or Esquina do Jardineiro so possibly similar in Italian.

 

:hehe:

 

In Italy there are many local "languages" which sound quite different between one region and the other, and definitely very different if the two regions are remote.
Those words that Maksim mentions are, as he points out, dialect words.
But some words are confusing also in Italian.
For example "hair" in Italian is a plural name, but not in English (I always find it so difficult to remember).
Another example: "fabric" resembles"fabbrica"(which means "factory").
Therefore, if you notice, people coming from a same Country they will often make the same errors in English.
Anyway " Gardeners corner " translates as
" l'angolo del giardiniere ".

And ..for everybody>GRACIAS is Spanish, in Italy we say GRAZIE.

 

Hi mira sweetheart ...

Okay, so we say 'the corner of the gardener' and you say 'the angle of the gardener'?

 

I guess we get 'scald' from the same root as 'caldo'

 

Hello Vicky, nice to see you as always...:gnthb:

 

Well, we really should have 'hairs' rather than 'hair' unless we're particularly follicly challenged. Silly language.