lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?message-squaremessage-square650fedilinkarrow-up1636arrow-down117
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minus-squareunhook2048@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoMy last one was a bit confusing. Here’s one the word Helicopter is not as you’d think. Heli-copter. The word is Helico, to mean spinning and pter, as in feather, like pterodactyl so the pronounciation is helico-ter. P.S. I’m so sorry.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI’m Ojibway-Cree and I speak my language Helicopter in my language is … KAH-KEE-NAH-KWA-NAS-KAH-PAH-NIK The literal translation is ‘the thing that turns’ The other word that many older people used is … CHEE-KAH-NAH-MOO-SHEESH it’s the word in our language for ‘Dragonfly’
My last one was a bit confusing. Here’s one
the word Helicopter is not as you’d think. Heli-copter.
The word is Helico, to mean spinning
and pter, as in feather, like pterodactyl
so the pronounciation is helico-ter.
P.S. I’m so sorry.
I’m Ojibway-Cree and I speak my language
Helicopter in my language is …
KAH-KEE-NAH-KWA-NAS-KAH-PAH-NIK
The literal translation is ‘the thing that turns’
The other word that many older people used is …
CHEE-KAH-NAH-MOO-SHEESH
it’s the word in our language for ‘Dragonfly’