{"id":192,"date":"2012-09-25T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-09-25T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:00:00","slug":"office_supplies_in_the_tower_of_babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/office_supplies_in_the_tower_of_babel","title":{"rendered":"Office Supplies in the Tower of Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2012\/european-day-of-languages.jpg\" alt=\"European Day of Languages\" \/>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cilt.org.uk\/home\/valuing%20languages\/european%20day%20of%20languages.aspx\" onclick=\"PS.Core.Popup(this, 800, 600);return false;\" title=\"Opens in a new window\">European Day of Languages<\/a>. The day is intended to show people across Europe how important languages are to to celebrate the linguistic diversity of the world. The day was inaugurated in 1991 by the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, we&#8217;ve picked some linguistic nuggets from the world of office supplies.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Romanian for &#8216;pencil sharpener&#8217; is <i>ascu&#355;itoare<\/i>. The word for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/desktop-essentials\/sticky-tapes\/c-783\">sellotape<\/a>, <em>band&#259; adeziv&#259;<\/em>, is probably more intuitive to Anglophones.<\/li>\n<li>If a Swede wants to write down something important, he or she might writer it in a <em>anteckningsbok<\/em>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/books-pads\/notebooks\/l-6742\">notebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Lubang menumbuk<\/em> is Malay for &#8216;hole punch&#8217;. 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