suzmccarth wrote:

> Sorry Marco, no spaghetti, but I have posted 16 words that sound
> like their English equivalents.

Thank you very much, Suzanne.

> At least a few should match Italian
> well. These words include foods, English loanwords for modern items,
> religions, religious characters, and countries. Have fun figuring
> out what is what. I am waiting for your guesses! (It is in Unicode.)

OK, time for laughing:

- aarañsh: "orange"? (The color or the fruit?)

- kaapi: could it be "coffee"?

- rootti: no clue... Some kind of food?

- kri: "curry"?

- naan: is this "nun"!?

- tisko: "disco(theque)"?

- sheelpoon: no clue... Sounds English but...

- kaara: could it be "car"?

- raamaa: Rahma, the god?

- pautta: I'll be silly: is this (Harry) Potter!?

- ashooka: emperor Ashoka?

- intu: Hindu?

- muslim: Muslim.

- kanataa: Canada.

- intiyaa: "India"!? Wouldn't it be something like "Bharat" in Tamil?

- amerikka: America.

Well, the last one is more or less the only one about which I'm quite sure
(I hope it won't turn out that "Amerikka" is the Tamil for "I am from planet
Hearth and I come in peace, you bloody extraterrestial barbarians.").

OK, when you've finished rolling on the floor laughing, could you please
give me the actual translations?

--
Marco