Multilingual Chick Peas

[da]

I think Mr. Goudas Chick Peas wins for multilingual-ness. I count twelve languages. I can't tell what some of them are, though. Dan and I talked about this previously, and didn't come up with conclusive answers for all of the languages, but bats22 gave me the idea of running it through babelfish, which only has a few of the lanaguages, and actually those translations add more mystery.

...Any of the language geeks on my Friends list want to weigh in? :)





According to Babelfish, the left can's left-side language is Portugese. I'm not sure why there are two languages that look like Arabic; the second one might be Urdu? The one below that looks like Hindi or Sanskrit.

The right can's bottom lines are Spanish and Italian. The Chinese doesn't match what Babelfish says, for either Traditional or Simple translations. The Hebrew isn't at all like the translation provided by Wikipedia. And I have no idea what the language under the Chinese might be. [Edit: It's Tamil! What a cool script that is.]

If you'd like to look closer, clicking on the image gets you to my flickr page. (Lest you think I went to any real effort to post the pics, my photo-album program (f-spot) has an export feature that makes it easier for me to send photos to flickr, than resizing them myself and saving them to my own server.)

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I'd guess it's Farsi, not Urdu. But I dunno; either makes plenty of sense. The Hindi is pretty certain; think about how many Indians eat chickpeas...

[poeticalpanther.livejournal.com]

Farsi or possibly Coptic (the Egyptian language), I'd guess. So it's French-Portuguese-Greek around the one side, with Arabic, Farsi/Coptic, and Hindi in the middle on the left, and English-Spanish-Italian around the right one, with Hebrew, Chinese and Tamil in the middle.

Certainly like to save on printing, hmm?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Farsi/Persian does seem to make the most sense. Yes, seems to be Farsi". The web is such a cool thing.

Certainly like to save on printing, hmm?

...Maybe that's one reason I like the container so much- efficiency is a good thing. ;)

[bats22.livejournal.com]

It's the Rosetta Can!

Just think, if they find it in several thousand years, they'll... um... know about chick peas, at least.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

It's Adventures in Chickpea Science! (As dan points out, that is a sort of scary site...

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

That is one of the most frightening webpages I think I have ever seen. (Particularly the books Chickpea Lover and Advances in Chickpea Science.)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

hee hee. You forgot about Letters from Chickpea

Yes, I was surprised by the... comprehensiveness of that page too.