Vung Tau Whale Festival?

khanh44 wrote:

and ca map is a fat fish. lol who comes up with these names?

Wrong.  Although you are right when you translate each individual word, cá = fish, mập = fat.  However, together, cá mập = shark.

I suppose because a shark looks kinda like a fat fish.  Cá is probably a classifier for water creatures that are fish-like, have fins and tails that propel them through the water.

Why do you drive on a "parkway" and park in a "driveway"?
Why do you send "shipments" by truck and "cargo" by ship?

ancientpathos wrote:

Greetings, I heard that this month some kind of a festival maybe about whales is in Vung Tau this month.  Anyone going? When is it? What happens? I know, I could google it but I want to here about it from real people.

The next time I get a chance to go into the City, I'll look into it.

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

khanh44 wrote:

and ca map is a fat fish. lol who comes up with these names?

Wrong.  Although you are right when you translate each individual word, cá = fish, mập = fat.  However, together, cá mập = shark.

I suppose because a shark looks kinda like a fat fish.  Cá is probably a classifier for water creatures that are fish-like, have fins and tails that propel them through the water.

Why do you drive on a "parkway" and park in a "driveway"?
Why do you send "shipments" by truck and "cargo" by ship?

uhm you can also park on parkway and drive in driveway just as you can send cargos by truck or shipments by ship.

Cargos generally refer to containers (think big/huge)and ships normal transport these sorts of freights but trucks/train can as well where as shipments generally refer to goods (think small) so these shipments are smaller so can be transported on trucks locally or nationally.

But anyways thanks for killing the light humuor.

Sorry bad habit never dies got to stop going off topic. I've never seen a whale before. Too bad I won't be in Vietnam this year but yeah anyone going let us know how it went so others can try it next year.

khanh44 wrote:

Tran Hung Dao wrote:

khanh44 wrote:

and ca map is a fat fish. lol who comes up with these names?

Wrong.  Although you are right when you translate each individual word, cá = fish, mập = fat.  However, together, cá mập = shark.

I suppose because a shark looks kinda like a fat fish.  Cá is probably a classifier for water creatures that are fish-like, have fins and tails that propel them through the water.

Why do you drive on a "parkway" and park in a "driveway"?
Why do you send "shipments" by truck and "cargo" by ship?

uhm you can also park on parkway and drive in driveway just as you can send cargos by truck or shipments by ship.

Cargos generally refer to containers (think big/huge)and ships normal transport these sorts of freights but trucks/train can as well where as shipments generally refer to goods (think small) so these shipments are smaller so can be transported on trucks locally or nationally.

But anyways thanks for killing the light humuor.

Sorry bad habit never dies got to stop going off topic. I've never seen a whale before. Too bad I won't be in Vietnam this year but yeah anyone going let us know how it went so others can try it next year.

Whose on first?

cucda wrote:

was everyone talking about Cá Ông/Nghinh Ông festival which is on 14-18 August (Lunar calendar) every year?

I take it that's starting September 18 for those that want to see whales. Ca ong? old fish? nevermind...