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It may or may not be comforting to know that speakers of other languages engage in the same practice of "opposites": Italian bestiale (lit. ` brutish, bestial; atrocious ') ` great, marvelous, good' and bestia (lit. ` beast ') ` friendly'; German Strick (lit. ` rope ') ` necktie'; Turkish gavurca (lit. ` language of the unbelievers ') ` any foreign language' (compare the origin of barbarian).
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