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Old 03-16-2013, 05:31 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
Well, sure, but... as per the above, it doesn't just seem like they're taking a word from another language because it's better, it seems like they're taking a random fun sounding word from another language and sticking a completely different meaning to it. Now that's just ridiculous.
Not really - it was the same idea of a selection of food, mainly cold except for the meatball in a small bun, only the "bord" became a "plankje". However, as it notes on wikipedia, English probably has attacked the word and dragged it screaming into the wrong cell because it tends to be used to mean a wide selection of vaguely related items, rather than meaning a buffet (which of course, isn't an English word anyway!!)

This is, of course, on topic, because Kobos have a smorgasbord of problems
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