Vietnamese Quiz: “Why is flirting called “CUA”
New things and phenomena introduced into our country while the Vietnamese language is still incomplete requires new languages, and the birth of borrowed words is inevitable. Although borrowed from a foreign language, when used, it is Vietnameseized in terms of writing, phonetics, and semantics in order to easily and fully describe new things and phenomena that Vietnamese cannot fully describe. .
Borrowed words have a certain role in Vietnamese. It adds the missing words, creating a word class with different nuances from those already in Vietnamese. These word classes represent elegance, generalization. Borrowed words also help the vocabulary of Vietnamese become diverse, rich and suitable for all times.
As a language that is more difficult than “typhoons”, Vietnamese has many ways to make even the best people who can read and write fluently bewildered. Let’s see how far your puzzler is when you ask the origin of this familiar phrase:
Why flirting is called “CUA”
Program “Lightning Fast”
We often hear the word “boys“good”girls” to indicate flirting with a man or a woman. But why call it that? Is this usage related to the crab?
Many people believe that this word is indeed related to the real crab. Because crabs have claws, they can clamp down on the prey it targets, just as when flirting, one can hold and completely dominate the other. But if that’s the case, why not just use the verb “to clamp” to say “boy clip“,”girl clip” for now?
In fact, the word “crab” here comes from the French “Faire la cour” means “flirt”. This word is related to English “Pay court to” with the same meaning. Maybe from here people remembered the saw, and formed another expression of flirting as “saw down”.
Dr. Nguyen Huu Phuoc in the book “Diverse Vietnamese” also points out that the French word “crabs” is very interesting, like the “crab” in “court cup” which comes from “cours”, which means class, (this word also has French roots: coupe le cours: truant from school. ), or “crab” in a crab cut (cutting a crab) taken from the word “court” which means short.
Via question This also shows that the puzzles are inherently very difficult, but when using inference from Vietnamese, it is much more puzzle. Indeed the saying “Three storms are not equal to Vietnamese grammar” is not wrong at all!
Source: Lightning fast
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