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Old 09-21-11, 08:14 AM   #1922
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Originally Posted by kranz View Post
it probably means the same thing as in Polish
Did you also use a word like "Betonkopf"? We used it for the former leaders behind the iron curtain like Honecker, who were too stubborn for a political change.


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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch View Post
It does!

And Croatian, Danish, Dutch, German, Indonesian(!), Romanian, Russian (pronounced as), Slovak, Turkish, Ukranian (as Russian).

Deviations are -

Estonia - betoon
Finland - betoni
Latvia - betona
Lithuania - betono
Norway/Sweden - betong
and Vietnamese as - bê tông




you forgot the French: béton
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