jazzbo Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 (edited) from article Published: March 10, 2010 -- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/opinion/11kristof.html -- you may not agree with the excerpt but Nick Kristof has won a Pulitzer Prize (for Reporting from Tienanmin Sq.) and most likely you haven't: Here’s a one-word language test to measure whether someone really knows a foreign country and culture: What’s the word for doorknob? People who have studied a language in a classroom rarely know the answer. But those who have been embedded in a country know. America would be a wiser country if we had more people who knew how to translate “doorknob.” I would bet that those people who know how to say doorknob in Farsi almost invariably oppose a military strike on Iran. Edited May 21, 2010 by jazzbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
321niti123 Posted May 21, 2010 Share Posted May 21, 2010 (edited) LOL...i mistakenly took doorknob to sound like Doork nob!!!-i figured it out now (how incredibly stupid of me) ลูกบิดประตู is the thai word for Door Knob (pronounced Look-bid-pra-tuu) ประตู is the word for door (Pra-tuu) บิด is to turn or twist (bid) ลูกบิด is something that turns/twist (look bid) Edited May 21, 2010 by 321niti123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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