castanyes blaves

There is an expression in Catalan, to acknowledge someone your approval to do something:

"Vist-i-plau"

Which could be translated to: "Seen-and-pleases-me".

A close relative of mine realized about the relationship between the structure of the expression and its meaning much later than it should.

Another one:

"Ropa Premama" in Spanish

The clothes for pregnant women --- "pre-mother".

And today I realized that, in Perl (this is geek stuff):

A module's file extension is "*.pm"

and in Perl, the local communities are called "_P_erl _M_ongers".

For example, one can talk about the Barcelona.pm, which isn't a Perl module about Barcelona but the Perl Monger's group in Barcelona (great group of people, by the way).

Again, way too late to discover that trick... :-)

posted by avilella  # 7:08 PM