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- "Hol vannak ezek a farmerek?"
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This sentence sounds a bit odd to me. If you say "these jeans," it means that the jeans are here, nearby. So why would you be asking where they are?
You're pointing to a picture of them in an advertisement, and want to know where to find them in the store...
True in general.
But perhaps he is showing you a picture of the jeans that he means, so he can point to them and say "these" but still not know where the actual jeans are.
OK, I guess I need a little more imagination when it comes to making up scenarios in which a sentence would make sense. :) (Both of yours do.)
in english everything that is a pair (jeans, trousers...) is in the plural, in Hungarian, it is one item, so farmer, nadrág, but also you have nice eyes, but in Hungarian, szép szemed van...
Jeans were made for the miners working during the California gold rush, by Levi Strauss.
1823
While the riveted blue jeans (as we know them today) were patented by Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis, the jeans fabrics seem to go way back to Genoa, Italy and Nimes (De Nimes), France.
I remember when they were called "dungarees." And I thought that word came from India. It's a city in India, isn't it?
- 1823
Good ole days!-) Yes, I believe that there was a small place in India with a name close to that.Speaking of India, I believe the Indigo color came from there as well. A useful reference can be found at: http://www.historyofjeans.com/
If I am not mistaken, jeans pants were first made for farmers to wear during work on the fields. I guess that's where the name comes from.
Wtf how did you get to farmer??? Hungarian is full of surprises and that's why I love this secret language!
I'd guess that farmers wore them. I don't know when the word entered the language, probably from English (or possibly German?). Maybe they were called "farmer jeans" or "farmer pants"? I'm guessing here, maybe someone here knows the actual story. It doesn't seem that far-fetched, though.
The sentence is very weird in English. i don't really see when you would say it.
I was just reaffirming it. However thinking about it, you could maybe say that, but you would have to not have any previous knowledge of the jeans for it to make sense.
You're right about this course. I also think it's kind of unproductive to focus on these boring or non sensual sentences instead of daily-used and productive ones. But people dedicated their private time to it for no exchange, so we can only appreciate their effort and thank them for that...
