Indrajit Gupta wrote:
> Aargh! Think of those driving around in Ford Figos!
That's remarkable. Silly me, I didn't know. As far as I can tell nobody
in Italy, so far, has discovered that such a car actually exists. And
apparently nobody in India knows that there is a place where its name
has a peculiar meaning.
Maybe a few Figos could be sold here as a collector's item.
There are, of course, several other examples of words and names having
different meanings in different places. Such as "escort" being used in
Italy (sometimes also elsewhere) as an euphemism for "hooker". Ignoring
the fact that it has other meanings in English - including a Ford car.
It goes to show how unglobalized we are.
Giancarlo
