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Re: VMs: AW: Re: VMs- geography - and does "dar" mean something in Russian ?



On Tuesday 13 January 2004 15:16, Anders, Claus wrote:
> Dar dar dar = Japanese "daru daru daru" (the "u" at the end is not spoken
> and means "dull dull dull".

So according to this, 'monkey' in Japanese should be "sar"? I don't think so.
"Daru" as "dull" is not Japanese, it is the so-called 'katakana-go' (anything 
non-Japanese written in katakana, loosing all original pronunciation). Like 
makudonarudo baagaa :-)

Cheers,
G.

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