Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: The right diet afther X'Mas blow-out: fruits

Just some fruits and their names.
	Platain  --> platano
"banano del genere Musa; anche il suo frutto"
It's called "platano" in Italian, I think.
"platano" is the plane tree too.
	Star-fruit --> carambola
I know what is it (and I know I love the smell of it but I don't like
the taste of it)
	Tangerine --> mandarino tangerino
What the heck is that? A kind of mandarin breeded in Tanger, Morocco?
	Melon  --> melone
	Cantaloup --> melone cantalupo 
Who knows the difference between a melon and a cantaloup?
I remember a quote, from "Friends".
Episode 2.19
Joey: "A little foos?"
Chandler: "Absolutely!"
Joey: (picking up what seems to be a foosball) "What's happened to the
foosball?
Chandler: "It's a cantaloupe".
Cantaloupe - or cantaloup - is a kind of melon, so how can it be
little enough to "seem" a foosball?
from 
dictionary.com
:
[French cantaloup, perhaps from Italian cantalupo(from Cantalupo a
former papal villa near Rome), or from Cantaloup a village of southern
France.]
	Persimmon --> Persimmon
Un tipo di cachi. Is there any difference between a persimmon and a
kaki?
Maybe the kaki is from China and the Persimmon from Japan?
	Guava --> guava
Never seen it :)
	frutto dell'albero del pane
It's a Tongan fruit (I have no idea if it is common somewhere else).
What's the name in English? It's original name (in Tonga) should be
"mei".
Dictionary.com
mei: Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant white or pink blossoms and
small yellow fruits.
Who knows.
	Cashew --> Anacardio
cashew apple pomo di acagių, acagių;
cashew nut noce di acagių.
What are these things? ;)
	durian --> durian
Called "King of Tropical Fruit" in a book.
The End.
Sebastiano
--
I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life.

 Sebastiano
Dear Sebastiano,
Just a word of advice for those who might not know: You *do not* want to be
travelling on a plane with any passenger who has one of these on board. Much
less do you wish to be sitting anywhere nearby when said passenger decides
it is time to cut one open and distribute some to fellow passengers. The
taste may well be pleasant enough, the challenge is overcoming the fruit's
'orrible odour, for 'orrible it is indeed.
Frankly, if this is the King of Tropical Fruit, long live the Queen.
I remain, as always, etc ecc.,
Bambi
dtb

Frankly, if this is the King of Tropical Fruit, long live the Queen.
In the matter of taste, my Queen is the pineapple and my King is the
pomegranate. Long live 'em both.
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 I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and today is the longest day of my life.
I like that show too!  Non stop tension!
Rick

I like that show too!  Non stop tension!
I love it. I bought the 1st season DVD box set from Canada and I've
seen almost it all (three hours to the end).
Sebastiano
--
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 'orrible odour, for 'orrible it is indeed.
I can see you had the experience.
I tried Durian once, in Zamboanga (Philippines) and didn't like its taste,
but later I was told that I was probably served a fruit of inferior quality.
Just the same, I never tried it again. Perhaps I should, now that I am in
Durian territory at the moment, but I understand the fruit is out of season.
Airlines strictly forbid the taking of Durian on board and wow upon him who
tries. I once heat-sealed some Durian  --  not the whole fruit, only the
edible inside part -- in triple aluminium foil of special quality and that
seemed to do the trick, but he still sat on tenterhooks all the way from
Bangkok to Oslo.
---
Xakero

 What the heck is that? A kind of mandarin breeded in Tanger, Morocco?
Breed, bred, bred. This one hasn't mutated to regular conjugation yet.
I would think that "tangerino" does indeed refer to the city of Tangier. I
could imagine that just like there are different types of apples, there is a
variety of "manderini", differing from one another in size, colour, taste,
etc.
---
Xakero

 google.
Mislead, misled, misled. Another of those verbs for which only the irregular
past tense and past participle is valid, at least for now. There aren not
too many of those left, so don't despair.
---
Xakero

too many of those left, so don't despair.
Probably the first time I used that verb. Shame on me, I should have
looked it up.
Thanks.
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etc.
Probably you are right. I was guessing that only because the word
"Tangerine" has two meanings: the fruit and something from the city of
Tangier (on my English/Italian dictionary).
But, from 
dictionary.com
:
Word History: The name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port
from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe in 1841. The
adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was already an English
word (first recorded in 1710), meaning - of or pertaining to Tangier.-
This adjective had been formed with the suffix -ine, as in Florentine.
The fruit was first called a tangerine orange, later reduced simply to
tangerine. Confusion exists between the name tangerine and the name
mandarin, and with good reason. The tangerine is a type of mandarin
orange, so the oranges shipped from Tangier could also accurately have
been called mandarins. However, although the two names can be used
interchangeably in a general sense, there is now a particular type of
orange called tangerine, which is different from another type now
called mandarin. The mandarin orange, which is native to China, is
thought probably to have received its name because of its resemblance
in color to the robes of a mandarin.
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Melon  --> melone
Cantaloup --> melone cantalupo
Who knows the difference between a melon and a cantaloup?
Sorry, no time to translate into English, but:
<cite>
Ci sono fondamentalmente tre tipi di melone, che si distinguono per la
forma, il colore della polpa e per la rugosità della buccia. Alle varietà
estive appartengono il melone retato che prende il nome dal particolare
aspetto della buccia, ricoperta da una striatura reticolare simile al
sughero e di colore bianco-marroncino (ricordiamo, tra tutti, il dolcissimo
Harper) ed il melone cantalupo caratteristico per la buccia piena di
bitorzoli e la polpa arancione; esistono poi i meloni d'inverno con buccia
liscia e polpa verdina
I meloni "Cantalupo", considerati i più saporiti e profumati, sono chiamati
così perché furono portati, nel XV secolo, da missionari provenienti da
lontani paesi asiatici a Cantalupo, castello pontificio situato presso Roma.
</cite>
Appartengono al gruppo dei Cantalupo anche i meloni detti "francesini",
caratterizzati da frutti di media grandezza e superficie liscia: le varieta'
di piccola taglia arrivano alle dimensioni di una grossa arancia.
--
Gnomo
...any way the wind blows...

Sorry, no time to translate into English, but:
Don't worry, I understand Italian ;).
[CUT]
Grazie per la spiegazione.
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