To: chajin
"automobile" is jidosha, or literally "byitself-moving-vehicle," It's funny to read a literal translation like that, but virtually every non-English language was forced to adopt English words, or create unwieldy approximations to describe late 20th century technology.
31 posted on
01/14/2017 12:59:27 PM PST by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: Windflier
Made even funnier that we had to swipe a mish-mash of Greek and Latin to create "automobile".
33 posted on
01/14/2017 1:10:44 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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