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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5832 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 1 of 64 30 April 2009 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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As this newsstory is unfortunately dominating the headlines I thought it might be useful for people to post how to say swine flu in various languages.
Czech prasečí chřipka French la grippe porcine German die Schweinegrippe Italian l'Influenza suina Spanish la Gripe porcina Portuguese A Gripe suína Russian Свинной грипп (svinnoy gripp) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ^veganboy^ Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5919 days ago 51 posts - 51 votes | Message 2 of 64 30 April 2009 at 12:16am | IP Logged |
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Catalan - La grip nova Edited by ^veganboy^ on 09 May 2009 at 2:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6603 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 64 30 April 2009 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
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domuz gribi Azeri donuz qripi Slovak prasacia chrípka 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5800 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 4 of 64 30 April 2009 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
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Dutch - varkensgriep
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| null Groupie China Joined 6125 days ago 76 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 5 of 64 30 April 2009 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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Chinese: 猪流感 [zhū liú gǎn]
Japanese: 豚インフルエンザ [toninfuruenza] 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tudwell Groupie United States Joined 5826 days ago 41 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Icelandic | Message 6 of 64 30 April 2009 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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How did English end up with "flu" when every other remotely related language uses some variation of "grip"??
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 7 of 64 30 April 2009 at 7:12am | IP Logged |
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"influenza" is a loanword from Italian. It's related to another loanword, "influence"
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| snovymgodom Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5725 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian | Message 8 of 64 30 April 2009 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
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The Russian is actually свиной грипп, with just one н. Edited by snovymgodom on 30 April 2009 at 7:51am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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