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Old 02-03-2009, 02:50 PM   #16
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Wait, I thought "girl" was chiquita.
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Wait, I thought "girl" was chiquita.
No, banana = chiquita
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Old 02-03-2009, 02:58 PM   #18
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No, banana = chiquita
Yum.... banana

I wish I had a pnut butter and banananananana sandwich right now! (Closes eyes, clicks heels, wishes with all her heart, nothing happens)
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What's Puella? Is it chicken?
Or chick.
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Old 02-03-2009, 06:55 PM   #20
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I'm hungry and was thinking paella
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Pollo is chicken. Paella is rice. Paella de pollo is delicious.
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Old 02-03-2009, 08:02 PM   #22
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United States - lots of male (plural) with a hint of San Francisco (America is female)
Canada - male (despite having a "queen" for head of state)
Mexico - male (we all saw that one coming, specially with the mustache deal going on)
I'm not of this earth - male (but perhaps that species goes through gender stages)
Luxembourg - male (however, if the size of the country is indicative of anything...)

All the others - female
...
I rather think Australia is a failed transexual - sort of an Antipodean Hedwig (the one with the angry inch, not the owl or the Polish Queen).

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Wait, I thought "girl" was chiquita.
No, it means "bananas". ABBA really liked little bananas - "Lady Fingers" - so they wrote a song about it. I think it was called "Voulez-vouz", which means "Banana daiquiri" in French.

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Pollo is chicken. Paella is rice. Paella de pollo is delicious.
Polo is a sport for inbred royalty.

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Old 02-03-2009, 08:08 PM   #23
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All the others - female (well, I'll get to you ladies later on, after I establish that I am actually kidding about all this, and that despite all appearences I am not a prejudiced guy)
For now, I'll just end this post by going back to the USA, which after consultation of a Florida map appears to be clearly male. But then again, cosmetic surgery has come a long way in the last decades. Well, I guess Uncle Sam will remain our weird uncle for a while longer.
just in case you are wondering, i've got no trouble with la France being female.

but i agree the US is a weird uncle.
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Just look at the map.

The ground is at the bottom - from Cornwall in the west across to Kent in the east. The pig is facing west - Wales is the head, and East Anglia is its rump.

The old lady sits on the pig, also facing west - very wrinkled face , with a hat on top.

Obvious, I thought!
i see it.
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I would suggest that DixieGal = Dixia Puella. (DiXia Gallica isn't accurate because she's from Alabama, not Gaul).
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No, it means "bananas". ABBA really liked little bananas - "Lady Fingers" - so they wrote a song about it. I think it was called "Voulez-vouz", which means "Banana daiquiri" in French.
pfff hahahaha !!!!

wow, this thread is really entertaining.
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Old 02-04-2009, 04:50 AM   #24
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"Puella" is what most people were taught in school was the Latin word for "girl", but actually "Virgo" was the word normally used in classical Latin. The Victorians didn't like that word because of its sexual connotations, and so preferred the much rarer word "Puella", which is a feminine form of the standard word for "boy" - "Puer".
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Old 02-04-2009, 05:03 AM   #25
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No, it means "bananas". ABBA really liked little bananas - "Lady Fingers" - so they wrote a song about it. I think it was called "Voulez-vouz", which means "Banana daiquiri" in French.
Isn´t this ABBA´s Banana-Song?

O Banana tell me what's wrong
you're enchained by your own peel?
in this case there is no hope but steel
how I love to cut you like this
there is no way I can deny it
I can see that you are oh so ripe....
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Isn´t this ABBA´s Banana-Song?

O Banana tell me what's wrong
you're enchained by your own peel?
in this case there is no hope but steel
how I love to cut you like this
there is no way I can deny it
I can see that you are oh so ripe....
It's the perfect song to put in a mixed tape with:

There was something in the bread that night
The crust was bright, peanut butter
It was shining there for you and me
For tastiness, peanut butter
Though I never thought that we could choose
Between it and marmalade
If I had to do the same again
I would, my friend, peanut butter.
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Old 02-04-2009, 05:51 AM   #27
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Something to consider, though: even though the names of many countries are grammatically feminine, they still retain the concept of a "fatherland", which is very definitely masculine, being related to a idea of a "father" (obviously). In Latin, "father" is "pater", "fatherland" is "patria" (a masculine concept, but a feminine word!), from which English gets words like "patriot", "patriotism", etc.
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"Puella" is what most people were taught in school was the Latin word for "girl", but actually "Virgo" was the word normally used in classical Latin. The Victorians didn't like that word because of its sexual connotations, and so preferred the much rarer word "Puella", which is a feminine form of the standard word for "boy" - "Puer".
Are you sure? I translated a few classical texts and I don't recall ever seeing that word.
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Are you sure? I translated a few classical texts and I don't recall ever seeing that word.
It's something I saw quoted recently in an article in the "Classical Assocation"'s journal. I haven't personally verified it to be true, but I have no reason to doubt the veracity of the source. I can dig out a reference if you're interested.
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