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Sunday in English is "Sunday" In Chinese, days of

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Sunday in English is "Sunday"

In Chinese, days of the week for Monday to Satuday are “星期”+number. eg Monday is 星期一 since 一 is 1.

But Sunday in Chinese is 星期日 where 日 literally means sun in Chinese.

This is purely coincidental and has not been derived from European languages.

Does anyone else know of interesting language trivia
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>>71552099
>the flag
>that post

Fucking boat people.
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>>71552151
But anon I am white

My family came here in 1840's
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it is also 礼拜
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>>71552170
lots of chingchongs came here in the 1840's too, zhang
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>>71552170
With a boat. So I am technically correct.
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>>71552099
Here you go, chang

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbabaram_language#Word_for_.22dog.22

>Mbabaram is famous in linguistic circles for a striking coincidence in its vocabulary. When Dixon finally managed to meet Bennett, he began his study of the language by eliciting a few basic nouns; among the first of these was the word for "dog". Bennett supplied the Mbabaram translation, dog. Dixon suspected that Bennett hadn't understood the question, or that Bennett's knowledge of Mbabaram had been tainted by decades of using English. But it turned out that the Mbabaram word for "dog" really is dog, pronounced almost identically to the English word (compare true cognates such as Yidiny gudaga, Dyirbal guda, Djabugay gurraa and Guugu Yimidhirr gudaa, for example[3]). The similarity is a complete coincidence: there is no discernible relationship between English and Mbabaram.
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>>71552336
>>71552218
Do you guys hate boat people?
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>>71552369
Yes. The once proud city of Auckland is now just another Melbourne, with the occasional enclaves of Polynesians (who are, ironically, boat people themselves).
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>>71552369
"boat people" doesn't mean the same thing as "immigrants"
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>>71552449
>2017
>being racist unironically
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The idiom 2 birds one stone exist in French, english, Chinese and Japanese.

一石二鳥 (in chink jap)
Faire d'une pierre, deux coups (fr)
Two Birds, One Stone
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>>71552489
>grow up in nice suburb
>polynesians move in
>now a shit hole with burgerlies every week
>"huur durr why r u racis anon"

Fuck off you liberal cunt.

Got no problems with chinks though, at least they obey the law and get jobs.
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>>71552542
>2017
>still believing liberal means left wing
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>>71552676
liberals lean left

all leftists are utter scum
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>>71552503
一举两得
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>>71552727
I'm a liberal and I vote centre-right
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In Chinese the word for ear sounds like er and mama is mother. There's a few weird coincidences like this
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>>71552800
Because only communists vote for labour or greens right now. You're still a leftist faggot, there's just no viable leftists to vote for right now.
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>>71552942
Mama is not a coincidence. That's the case in most languages, as "m" is the first sound a baby can make, with very few muscles needed compared to other sounds.
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>>71553237
>liking small government and personal freedom makes me a leftist
what did he mean by this?
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english - name
japanese - namae

i like this thread
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>>71553278
>wanting the erosure of one's culture with mass immigration and sub-human polynesians

Leftist
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>>71553237
greens are just commies anyway
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>>71553320
I WILL be voting national this year and there is NOTHING you can do to stop me
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>>71553585
I really don't care. Labour has no chance anyway.

Hopefully National losing support makes Labour realise they have a chance so they can go center and stop being a bunch of communist faggots.
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i thought australia was the shitposting king
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>>71553639
>center
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>>71552369
barely any Immigrants come by boat, all are legal
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>>71552099
>tfw only lurks 4chin to laugh at American's political status, but knows dick about my country's politics
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>"I" in Vietnamese is "Tôi"
>"You" in French is "Toi"
>French settled in Vietnam

Confusing!
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》》》草泥马

Legendary grass mud horse

Aka fk ur mom
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>>71552099
Isn't the concept of the week western thing? Actually we call days of the week 월,화,수,목,금,토 and 월(月) and 일(日) mean the same as monday and sunday.
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>>71552099
isn't there a heap of modern loan words from english in most languages? I'm not saying this is a case of it though.
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>>71552099
The 5 days of the week in spanish are named after planets (and the moon):
Lunes (Luna/moon) Martes (Marte/Mars) Miercoles (Mercurio/Mercury) Jueves (Jupiter) and Viernes (Venus)
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>>71560865
Yup, a common word in the north of Mexico for Car is Carro, which comes of course, form Car.
Another one is Yonke, which is derived from Junkyard, which is what they are.
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>>71552727
Christ, Americans really are this stupid.
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>>71552099
We also call sunday 'ravivar'.
ravi means sun and var means day.
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>>71561555
and the rest of the week is based on planet names unlike rubbish engish week day names.
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>>71561587
wow so high and mighty mr loo
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