as blonde as the ocean
I try not to complain about the Serbian language. It's hard & makes me think about words in new ways, but that is the case for any language. I need to learn it & complaing does me no good. But some elements of Serbian are beyond absurd.
Today in class, we learned how to physically describe people: height, build, eye color, hair color, etc. The word for a blonde woman is plavusa (with a mark over the s to turn it into a 'sh' sound.) Plav is blue. The literal translation of the word is "blue-haired." I don't get it.
I know (natural) blondes are rare in these parts, but I would think people would know blondes' hair is yellow.
Today in class, we learned how to physically describe people: height, build, eye color, hair color, etc. The word for a blonde woman is plavusa (with a mark over the s to turn it into a 'sh' sound.) Plav is blue. The literal translation of the word is "blue-haired." I don't get it.
I know (natural) blondes are rare in these parts, but I would think people would know blondes' hair is yellow.
posted by rachel @ 6:26 PM
3 Comments:
At 1:52 AM,
Anonymous said…
I never really got that either, but it kind of makes sense. Blondes usually have blue eyes, right? That's the only "logic" I can think of anyway...
At 2:48 PM,
Belgrade Daily Photo said…
I always think of the blue color of hair bleach. A long while back I bleached my hair out with the maximum strength stuff (with the intention to put bright colors over it) and there was a blue powder you mixed in with the liquidy/cream stuff. Though for all I know it was only that one brand.
At 7:10 AM,
Anonymous said…
in japan, they call a black hair green because deep deep if u look at it, it is green. the same goes for blue..the background for blonde is blue.
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