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Possibly.Fred Wright said:Possibly a inadvertent transliteration from the German. Like Turkite?
My wife is Spanish, so I'm used to minor lost-in-translation moments. I don't normally comment on minor typos/misspellings where sense is unaffected, but I've found that people can get quite sensitive about proper names for countries and nationalities. Particularly when you happen to be implying that the guy was an idiot, reading the text as written.
My wife once sent me a text saying that she'd heard (from a mutual friend who was an office mate of mine) that I was sleeping around the office, smiley face emoticon. I had been out drinking to celebrate a friend's birthday the night before and was indeed having some trouble keeping my eyes open - but that's not what "sleeping around the office" means... I decided I'd better not let that one pass...