Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Food

Now that I've gotten your attention with the title, it's kind of interesting how language reflects a culture. In Greek, the word "artos" means "bread", but it also means "food". I guess bread was a staple for the Greeks. Compare this to Korean, where the word "bap" means "rice", but it also means "food", reflecting the influence rice has upon Korean culture.

The things that go through my mind as I cram for a Greek test...

2 Comments:

At Wednesday, February 01, 2006 12:16:00 AM, Blogger G said...

It's the same in Chinese (fan) and Japanese (gohan) too... yay, rice!

 
At Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:28:00 PM, Blogger chongsun said...

Interesting; I wonder what other languages do this.

 

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