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andbrittlebones My favourite translator said that when she was an ambassador for Hungary she took all these Japanese politicians on a tour and she was trying to circumtranslate merry go round' cause she didn't know the Japanese word for it by calling it a horse tornado for children' and they had no blessed idea what she was saying and she finally started running in circles going up and down and they go ohhhhh, in Japan we call those 'merry-go-rounds 16,956 notes け

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SixthSun

SixthSun

Feb 17, 2015 at 10:10PM EST

Yep, lots of languages just borrow words from other languages when they don't have a word for it.
English is rife with this.

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MushroomGuy

MushroomGuy

Feb 18, 2015 at 12:40AM EST

Horse tornado for children… Wasn't that the plot to Hurricane Fluttershy?

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