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- lnf69, on 01/31/2008, -4/+162translated to english =>
big hole in ground containing water, fish and other things, some delicious, some less so, but a great source of life from the high spirit - kurby, on 01/31/2008, -1/+98They named it that so white people can't steal it.
- Pimpalicious316, on 01/31/2008, -1/+72it it ti
*****. - kinggimped, on 01/31/2008, -3/+60Yup, and the city in Thailand most of us call Bangkok is actually called Krungthepmahanakhonamonrattanakosinmahintharaayuthayamahadilok-
phopnoppharatratchathaniburiromudomratchaniwetmahasathanamonpimanawatansathitsakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit. Seriously.
But that's not in America, so obviously it doesn't matter.
I admit though, "Bangkok" is more fun to say. Especially if you emphasise the last syllable. - Haidoken, on 01/31/2008, -1/+40Say it three times fast
- SeekaF, on 01/31/2008, -1/+40I can't believe a lake shares my middle name...
- jbrown101st, on 01/31/2008, -0/+37Say it once.
- DaviDTC, on 01/31/2008, -0/+26It is true. I am Chaubunagungamaug-ian.
- AzraelDenver, on 01/31/2008, -0/+19Larry Daly, editor of The Webster Times, wrote a humorous article in the 1920s about the lake and the disputes concerning the meaning of its name. He proposed the tongue-in-cheek translation "You Fish on Your Side, I Fish on My Side, Nobody Fish in the Middle". It has met with so much popular acceptance that relatively little attention has been paid to the actual translation.
This longest name means approximately "Englishmen at Manchaug territory at the meeting and fishing place at the boundary"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chaubunagungamau ... - tmyprod, on 01/31/2008, -0/+18Typo. It is actually spelled Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
- sfacets, on 01/31/2008, -2/+18If it's an Indian lake, what's it doing in the United States?
- jonnyboy1544, on 01/31/2008, -0/+15Camp Anawanna, we hold you in our hearts...
- DrLachie, on 01/31/2008, -2/+16I remember reading about a lake with a name that long many years ago (may have been the same lake).
The book informed me the translation was: "You fish on your side, we fish on our side, nobody fishes in the middle". - GuacamoleSan, on 01/31/2008, -3/+17it then continues....
"...and one time all the beaver were hogging the lake and i says to squirrel i says squirrel...whats the deal with the beavers? and he just rolls his eyes" - crazydiode, on 01/31/2008, -0/+13I guess this is easier to read: Krung-dēvamahānagara amararatanakosindra mahindrayudhyā mahātilakabhava navaratanarājadhānī purīramya utamarājanivēsana mahāsthāna amaravimāna avatārasthitya shakrasdattiya vishnukarmaprasiddhi (wiki)
- evanbooth, on 01/31/2008, -0/+13This was the "big idea" their tourism council came up with.
- solarwind24, on 01/31/2008, -0/+12Too late...
- chakktor, on 01/31/2008, -5/+16I believe it means something along the lines of: "You fish on your side, we fish on our side, no one fishes in the middle."
- FaithclubDotNet, on 01/31/2008, -0/+10In the thumbnail, I thought that was a poker table.
- christoast, on 09/04/2008, -1/+11i lold
- minnymoo, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10that's a lot of "g"s.
- Fadakar, on 01/31/2008, -1/+10Oh man I feel bad for the kid that has this lake for his word in the spelling bee.
- jquipp, on 01/31/2008, -2/+10That's a mouthful!
- Tamriel, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8The Thai language confuses the hell out of me. The thing that kills me is that there don't have to be spaces between their words. Luckily, almost all of their road signs in Bangkok have English on them. Not that I'd even drive there. I just like to know that the taxi driving me around is going the right place.
- roosterjm2k2, on 01/31/2008, -0/+8Chrononhotonthologos - that sounds so damned familiar...i think i got conned into reading it (school?) but dunno
... on a related note...did anyone see the word "Indian", the green sign, and the arch of the type (before you zoomed in) and think "Blackjack Table"? - wispygalaxy, on 01/31/2008, -5/+12This is a line from the play "Chrononhotonthologos" written by Henry Carey:
"Aldiborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?" - krazykeyur, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Sounds like it was named by a baby..
- TheRascalKing, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Psssh, I dont want that hard-to-pronounce lake anyway.
- rwlib3, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Lived on Chargoggagog... very nice area. As long as you dont leave the lake... the rest of Webster is a f'in $hithole!
- capiCrimm, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8I think if you go off the board you auto-win.
- WoahAwkward, on 01/31/2008, -0/+718 out of 46 of the characters in "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" are vowels (~39%).
For comparison, I grabbed a dozen or so public domain English novels (for a total of 419,457 words). There were 693,982 vowel characters out of 1,755,691 total letters, yielding ~39.528% vowel characters. Sounds good to me.
Of course, written vowel characters hardly have a one-to-one correspondence with actual phonetic vowel sounds... but that's a story for another day. - rpapi100, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7So then when Aldiborontiphoscophornio told be he was with Chrononhotonthologos in Krung-dēvamahānagara amararatanakosindra mahindrayudhyā mahātilakabhava navaratanarājadhānī purīramya utamarājanivēsana mahāsthāna amaravimāna avatārasthitya shakrasdattiya vishnukarmaprasiddhi after leaving from lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, he was not lying ?
- kizzbizz, on 01/31/2008, -0/+7Pronunciation Help:
Char Gawg Uh Gawg, Man Chawg Uh Gawg, Chuh Bung uh gung uh maugh - dustinhyle, on 11/10/2009, -1/+8Dang that is ridiculous.
- SpectoriS, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6As someone very proud of their Native American heritage, I find this funny as hell.
- Phrag, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6Wrong. AzraelDenver got it right. The 'You fish on your side' translation was a joke.
http://www.colapcentral.org/webster-lake.htm#histo ... - fightforyou, on 01/31/2008, -1/+7both of you are idiots.
- TheRascalKing, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6Quote from wikipedia on how to pronounce it:
"Lake Chaubunagungamaug (pronounced /tʃəˌbʌnəˈɡʌŋɡəmɑːɡ/)"
Yeah, that helps. - Error601, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6The young indian brave said to his father, the tribal chief: “how do you name the braves and squaws”. The chief replies: “we name you after the first thing we see when a new brave is born. When your older brother, “Running Bear”, was born we saw a young black bear running, and when your cousin, ‘Soaring Eagle’ was born we saw a bald eagle soaring in the sky. Why do you ask, ‘Two Dogs *****’ ?
- ThreeDee912, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6Proof: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en& ...
- soupnrc, on 01/31/2008, -3/+9That's what she said.
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ewwww - ThreeDee912, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6Via Wikipedia:
Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg:
/leɪk tʃəˈɡɑːɡəɡɑːɡ ˌmænˈtʃɑːɡəɡɑːɡ tʃəˌbʌnəˈɡʌŋɡəmɑːɡ/
Even more confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chaubunagungamau ... - punkrockxtian, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6I refuse to let that garbage become the new Rick Roll
- inactive, on 01/31/2008, -1/+6Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- sarixe, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5it once.
- BingoPower, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5"Your search for "The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (of Ayuthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn". around this map area did not match any locations."
Bah, keep up google maps! - TerrorByteX, on 01/31/2008, -0/+4How many points will that net me in Scrabble?
(Yes I know it won't fit on the board) - alefox, on 01/31/2008, -1/+5if you have leopard, just have alex say it
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