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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Roro (Roll on Roll off) ferries seem to be sometimes called Row Row ferries across India and its neighbours. I can’t see it having much to do with rowing with oars. Perhaps with cars and lorries lined up on the vehicle decks?
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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Nice.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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When I first heard of Ro-Ro ferries this instantly came to mind:
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream…
Last edited by Peter Forster (2021-10-15 09:34:28)
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Or the academic version, which some of you may remember from long ago:
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Propel, propel, propel your craft
Placidly down the liquid solution
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically
Existence is but an illusion …
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2021-11-28 20:56:20)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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