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 twinsanity

link 23.12.2004 15:24 
Subject: 2 kath
thanks a lot for spending your time!

p.s. how can you know all of these things if you haven't played the game?

cheater!!! 8))

actually if you need some help in Spanish, Spanglish or Hindi - at your service

see ya!

 V

link 23.12.2004 16:26 
а можно незванно воспользоваться? На халяву как бы...:-)
Говорят, шутливое название Англии (good old) Blighty - происходит от (англ. солдат-колонизаторов, незадолго до WW I "плотно поработавших") в Индостане.
Говорят, что это слово на одном из языков Субконтинента означает "(родная) страна".
Думаю, не хинди. Думаю, может,... - урду?
Ведь по-арабски что-то же типа "билаади" (дэвушкам - МОЙ ИСКРЕННИЙ пардон :-)
Что думаете?

 kath

link 23.12.2004 16:49 
No problem. I just went to their website and read the rules of the game. Plus my brother contributed.

Thanks for the offer to help. How'd you learn Spanglish - do you spent a lot of time with American Latinos?

 twinsanity

link 24.12.2004 7:28 
No...
I'd simply learnt English amd Spanish and that gives an opportunity to catch on Spanglish as well.

p.s. 2 V - it's not a hindi word for sure. maybe telugu? (if you know what i mean)

 Tollmuch

link 24.12.2004 7:33 
Oxford English Dictionary:

Blighty, blighty, n. Army slang.
[Contracted form, originating in the Indian army, of Hind. bilayati = wilayat_ foreign, and esp. European, f. wilayat prop. Arabic, inhabited country, dominion, district, vilayet, in Hind. esp. foreign country (cf. Arab. wal_ governor of a province, vali, wali).
Cf. Bilayutee pawnee, Bilátee panee. The adject. bilayat__is applied specifically to a variety of exotic articles,_and most especially bilayat_ pan_, _European water', the usual name of soda-water in Anglo-India (Yule & Burnell, Hobson-Jobson).]
England, home. (Used by soldiers on foreign service.)
[1886 Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) II. 358 Let the town hear of the wonders which I have seen in Belait.]
1915 Times (weekly ed.) 8 Oct. 852 The only thing they looked forward to was getting back to _Blighty' again.
1916 N. & Q. 19 Feb. 151/1 One poem I have recently seen begins:---Oh, send me back to Blighty.
1917 P. MacGill Gt. Push xix. 238 I'll send out the money and fags when I go back to blighty.
1968 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself vii. 60, I was not happy in Blighty.
b. attrib. or adj. _Home', as distinguished from _foreign'.
1918 Aussie Aug. 9/2 The C.O. endeavours to persuade Private Hardcase to accept Blighty Leave.
1926 Morn. Post 8 Dec., An Exhibition and Sale of Blighty Industries.
c. In the war of 1914_18 applied to a wound that secured return to England. Also attrib.
1916 N. & Q. 4 Mar. 194/2 I believe that _B.B.' is the regular, though unofficial description of any non-fatal wound serious enough to send its victim back to a base hospital---Blighty Boy.
1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 4/4 So-and-so stopped some shrapnel and is back at the base in hospital,_he wasn't lucky enough to get a blighty.
1917 _Contact' Airman's Outings 29 A Blighty bullet sent him back to England and gave him a mention in the casualty list.
1918 Locke Rough Road xix, Mo says he's blistering glad you're out of it and safe in your perishing bed with a Blighty one.
1927 Daily Express 18 Oct. 1/1 Soldiers are visiting the battlefields_in the hope of finding trenches, dug-outs, or the exact spot where they received their _blighties'.
1934 V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. xii. 104 Marsden_had had his left arm damaged by a bullet and had gone to hospital very pleased with himself for having picked out of the dip the ideal Blighty.

Прошу прощения за небрежное оформление, в OED свои шрифты и свои идеи насчет оформления статей :-)

 twinsanity

link 24.12.2004 8:18 
well that's a good one.

 V

link 24.12.2004 20:12 
Спасибо, Илья.
Так вроде все же хинди, значит...

 

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