Bizarre words
There are so many bizarre words in english, that i don't undertand. For example:
My friend kelly allways say "piper" to her grandson, I ask to translator: What is piper? and the translator said me is " un gaitero" in spanish., What?! " the grandson of kelly is a person playing the instrument Bagpipe, I don't undertand, he is a boy of 2 years old.
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Bizarre words
There are so many bizarre words in English that i don't undertand. For example:My friend Kelly always says "Piper" to her grandson, I asked the translator, "What is 'piper'?" and what the translator said me in Spanish was "un gaitero." What?! Kelly's grandson is playing the bagpipes? I don't understand; he is a boy of 2 years old.
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A Bagpipe is a musical instrument. Instead of saying "he's a bagpipe player" you can say "he's a piper," given that the audience know that you're talking about music (because i probably wouldn't know what you're talking about if you just randomly said "he's a piper"). You can also say "he's a bagpiper" but it just sounds weird.
Another example is when you have a person that does plumbing, we call them the 'plumber'. Or someone who tends the garden - the 'gardener'.
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