Chap Mei armadillo and macaque came in for September 2010

Today i recieved two excellent Chap Mei figurines, which i had from a trade with Anna(Arrakai), which was a good trade for us both i think!  
Here they are:

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Nine-Banded Armadillo

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Liontail Macaque

They're great! Congratulations Willy, the Armadillo is really nice.

Thank you Harriet, i like them both very much, as they are not very often to be seen as models, specially the liontail macaque.

I love your tatou Willy!Se magnificue!

I hope you don't mean my avatar, which i am changing every day for the next six months, haha...
So actually i don't know what you mean by saying what you liked...

So actually i don't know what you mean by saying what you liked... [/quote]

It's an Armadillo, in Portuguese it is called tatu...

Roger wrote:

So actually i don't know what you mean by saying what you liked...

It's an Armadillo, in Portuguese it is called tatu...[/quote]

Tatou in French

Tatou in French [/quote]

Christophe, there are many similar words in Portuguese and French. Do you now in Portuguese to say crazzy Kiki???
It's... Kiki maluco!!!
You're a very nice collector... congratulations!!! I loved your site

Congratulations on these great additions.

I have two of those monkeys, - didn`t know what they were untill now !

There is a funny little story about how I got the second one of them :

It must have been app 10 years ago, I was looking for the Schleich Swan. Schleich was very new to us Danes then ;-)
A French lady wrote to me, she had a "belle signe". I knew the word, not the spelling, for swan - Cygne, I think, so I thought it was a swan.

You can imaging my surprise when I got the package with this very aggressive looking monkey instead of a lovely, white swan

I would'never had thought about the armadillo in this word, haha.
Actually, i was thinking about a tattoo or so because i have one...

And i do speak a lot of languages, and i know about so many words that are similar in the Latin languages, and even in Latin and German languages, but when it comes to the names of animals in some countries, you can get very confused sometimes...
I have to google a lot when i want to find the proper name in English sometimes...

By the way, Torben owns this monkee too, and he names it a gibbon on his site????
Shame on you Torben, haha

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I would'never had thought about the armadillo in this word, haha.
Actually, i was thinking about a tattoo or so because i have one...

And i do speak a lot of languages, and i know about so many words that are similar in the Latin languages, and even in Latin and German languages, but when it comes to the names of animals in some countries, you can get very confused sometimes...
I have to google a lot when i want to find the proper name in English sometimes...

By the way, Torben owns this monkee too, and he names it a gibbon on his site????
Shame on you Torben, haha

Tatu is a tupi-guarani word of brasilien indian people, armadillo is a spanish word, from latin language that means armoured. That's the confusion! Tattoo in Portuguese is tatuagem!

I am not into native languages of the diverse Indian people, but armadillo i understood, even before i understood Spanish...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I am not into native languages of the diverse Indian people, but armadillo i understood, even before i understood Spanish...

In french, we call it a tatou because it's the french name of the animal who live currently in France... In the "French Guyana département" of course !

A tattoo is a tatouage and I never heard about an armadillo until I learned English...

Armadillo means nothing here. "An armour" is "une armure" and "blindé" means "armoured"

Yes of course my friend, in French Guyana, and in our former Guyana(Suriname) too i guess...

Yes yes, we call a tattoo a tatouage too around here, as we have so many French words in our language thanks to Louis Napoleon