Java 070
on August 1, 2018
at 8:00 am
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey:
Most people when they think of a jaguar driving a car would imagine him driving a jaguar. But they’d be wrong. He’d be driving a Porsche.
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey:
Most people when they think of a jaguar driving a car would imagine him driving a jaguar. But they’d be wrong. He’d be driving a Porsche.
Yes Java. You should have left a tip…
Well, it’s not like there’s an actual rule or anything…
Curiously, while “jaguar” is pronounced “DJAAG-war” in American English,in British English it is pronounced “jaag-YOU-ar”.
Even more curiously, the big cats in their native lands are known as “El tigre”, the tiger. That’s because jaguar is one of the native names and each different area has a different word in a local native language. But el Tigre (“el TEE-grey” sort of) is Spanish and nearly universally understood.
Jaguars are not tigers of course, but since tiger is from an ancient phrase that meant “painted cat”, it still is accurate enough.
Jaguars > Tigers. The only “tiger” car ever produced was from 1964-67. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Tiger