<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I know that we have {‘e'levan} for “elephant”, but Barnham and Bailey circus posters always show these famous “nose beings” curling their trunks...</div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 29, 2020, at 7:06 AM, De'vID <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" class="">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 12:59, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" class="">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The request for the new word {ghIchDep} was "traveling amusement park".<br class="">
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The canon definition for it is "fair, funfair" (which I understand so<br class="">
far as a traveling "Disneyland") but also "carnival" and "circus".<br class="">
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I'm just checking that I'm getting this right; "carnival" reminds me of<br class="">
dancing people in the street, as you might know from Brasil, and also<br class="">
disguised in Germany nd other countries.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I'm pretty sure it means "carnival" in the sense of P. T. Barnum, and not in the sense of Brazil, though there may be some overlap.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Think of a "carnival barker" ( <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_(occupation)" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_(occupation)</a> ). That's the kind of carnival {ghIchDep} apparently refers to.</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
"Circus" makes me think of a big tent with clowns, artists and dancing<br class="">
elephants.<br class="">
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Is that correct? Or do americans use "circus" to refer to a funfair?<br class=""></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>
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