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Deborah
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Hehe, do you say "get down of a car" or "get down from a car"?

Does anyone (besides the Anglophones) know the old joke, "How do you get down from an elephant?"
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I think you'd have most of us scratching our heads if pressed to find an Anglo-Saxon equivalent for arroyo or mesa,


Is table not a well known word in New Mexico?

I believe she's referring to the tableland type of mesa. And probably lots of people in this country are more familiar with "arroyo" than "wash".


Right -- I meant this:


Black Mesa, in Arizona

not this:



For example, the part of town I live in is called the East Mesa; there is also a West Mesa on the other side of town.

And I didn;t even know arroyos and washes were the same thing (shows what I know!). I did know that they are called wadis in Arabic; "dry streambed" was as close as I could get to it in English.




Walker: It's "get down from the car" or just "get down".
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Deborah wrote:
Walker wrote:
Hehe, do you say "get down of a car" or "get down from a car"?

Does anyone (besides the Anglophones) know the old joke, "How do you get down from an elephant?"


I didn't, until I read about it just now.
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