All dressed up...
... and nowhere to go. My life in Doha, literally and figuratively.
Coming up next: words that are not in the vocabulary of Qatar residents. Like "nightlife." And "planning."
posted by acs @ 2:38 AM
Nosce Te Ipsum
"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -G.K. Chesterton
8.03.2007
Coming up next: words that are not in the vocabulary of Qatar residents. Like "nightlife." And "planning."
Nosce Te Ipsum
"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -G.K. Chesterton
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2 Comments:
I really think that words that don't exist (or aren't used) in a language are very revealing about a culture! For example: they don't have a word for frown in colombia...they also don't have a word or phrase for right now...it's only vamos ya...which they think means right now, but actuallly ya means already, so they only way to say we need to go right now, is "we should have gone already" which I think is hilarious, because we (colombians and I included) are generally always late, whoops.
Molly, I swear Sarah left me almost the exact same comment six months ago on one of my posts... hilarious!
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