Strange town-names...

[Carlos 8mm]

Some Argie funny cities/towns names:

-Venado Tuerto (One-eyed deer)

-Fraile Muerto (Died Friar),

-Salsipuedes (Get out there if you can),

-El arañado (The scratched one)

And some more...

Carlos.

[tlatosmd]

That reminded me a bit of the precise distinction in Latin grammar between his/her/its (i. e. someone else's) and his/her/its own but what followed didn't seem like it.

What do you mean, exactly?

suus/sua/suum as 'his/her/its own', and eius/eia/eium as 'his/her/its' meaning explicitly 'someone else's', both being non-interchangeable.

For example, if we say in English or German, 'He's eating his bread', it could mean either he's eating his own bread or he's eating someone else's bread, however, in Latin it's clear by either suus or eius.

German does have a proper translation for the possessive pronoun eius which is dessen, however dessen appears either dated in this meaning or is considered interchangeable in meaning with the proper translation for suus.

Still, there is another use of dessen in a similar function (of indicating 'someone else's') that is still generally understood properly, which is when it's used as as a relative pronoun that can also be used attributively, its proper English translation is 'whose', in Latin it's cuius.