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piggymouse ([personal profile] piggymouse) wrote2006-11-03 09:31 pm
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[quote,language,geography,aktuell] News from the Department of Cruel and Unusual Geography

“The Economist” reports on the Howondaland – Agathea summit:

The characters for “Africa” in the Mandarin language mean “wrong continent”.

ПРАДЧЕД, ПРЕВЕД!!!

Any sinologists around here? Could someone please confirm this?

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