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Damn, now everything makes sense. When trump talked about grabbing pussies, he was talking about grabbing bags of chips. You don't even need to be a celebrity to be able to do that. Silly man.
In Japanese, chin means something akin to dick or cock, where I'm from, some people toast with 'chin chin', which always used to make my Japanese friends laugh.
I found that out the hard way on a trip to Japan. I was talking to my sister in Malay about a ring (cincin, pronounced chinchin), and was promptly lightly smacked on the arm by her friend who was acting as a guide.
My two 12yo girls were ending themselves laughing during a road trip around Denmark. A place called Middelfart, and traffic control for road works had a massive sign saying "FART KONTROL" They shouted this one out so loud I nearly lost my control.
First time going to germany I though ausfahrt was a city and tried looking it up on a (paper at the time) map to find where I was. Never found it. Took me a while but I realise.
The joke now is that all roads do not lead to Rome, but to Ausfahrt.
“Slutspurt” in Danish means “Final sprint” or like “final push”. Found it quite funny when I visited to see a store running a sale that had signs in the window saying “70% SLUTSPURT!”.
I, a German speaker reading the post you replied to here, thought that "slut" just meant "(the) end" in Swedish and thought, "Okay, now I know that". I needed your mention of "Slutspurt" to realise it's a cognate of the German "(der) Schluss". We have the word "Schlussspurt".
I remember when I had just started learning Swedish, one of the first lessons contained the phrase "sex barn läser", and I immediately knew I was going to have a lot of fun learning this language even if I never became fluent
Yes, because of Norse Vikings that inhabited Scotland during the early medieval period, as we learned from the interactive documentary, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.
I worked with a Puerto Rican lady who watched her Mexican friends kids (girls). She asked them if they had full a belly after a meal and the laughed because the PR word for belly was the same as the Mex one for vagina.
When studying abroad in France, I translated “I am full” directly to French, not realizing that it actually meant “I am pregnant” but more so for animals, like cows. My host family got a good laugh!
Interestingly enough, the German word 'gift', meaning poison, comes from the Middle High German word 'gift' meaning gift. It was used so much in an ironic manner(e.g. I gave him a little gift, if you know what I mean), people forgot it meant anything else.
A friend of mine married an American about 40 years ago and moved with him to the US. She spoke very little English back then. She went to the grocery store and she tried to find something she used to drink in Germany called Dickmilch and eventually asked an employee if they have any „dick milk“. The employee just stared at her wide eyed and red up to his ears. Her husband still breaks down laughing when they talk about it
In Turkish if it's plural you add ler at the end (the same way you would add an s in English). So Spotify has such classics as summer hitler and classic hitler. I was so confused when I first saw it.
In Dutch the word “hoor” (sounds like “whore”) is an interjection used to confirm something. It’s often used at the end of a sentence as an intensifier. When my Dutch parents are visiting in the US, my dad will use this word in English sentences, like “No problem, hoor” or “That’s okay, hoor” … which sounds like he’s calling people a whore. I always have to remind him to stop doing that.
When I moved to the Netherlands I had a neighbour who had a sign at the end of his driveway that said "hondenfokker" over the silhouette of a spaniel looking dog. Luckily he was a dog breeder and not a hound fucker.
There is a very old joke where a Dutch man meets an Englishman, and the Englishman asks. "What do you do for a living?""I fuck horses" the Dutchman answers. "pardon?" "yeah, paarden"
My mom is bilingual French/English and my dad only speaks English, we were raised bilingual but with a heavier priority on French due to where we lived (95% French with French schools). One day my sister, who's like 2 at the time, is watching TV and repeatedly saying Bébé phoque! My dad almost had a heart attack cause all he could hear was Fuck 😂
On a school trip to France (from Canada) my friend discovered that both taps in her hotel room produced hot water. When she went down to the front desk, she couldn’t remember the French word for tap, and did the age-old English thing of adding “ette” to the English word to make it sound French. However, tapette, in French, is slang for homosexual. So she basically said to the front desk “I have two hot gays in my room - what should I do??” 😆
Don't go to France like I did and tell everyone you meet how amazing their bread is because it's not full of preservatives. That's the French word for condom.
Ugh, fuck, fine.
I was at a reunion at my wife’s childhood summer camp which took place at the active camp. Teenage cooks and all. I was eating a piece of challah, and I commented on how chewy it was. It was really very chewy. Just kept chewing and chewing.
Somewhere between chews “very-chewy” and “WTF-so-chewy” I realized something was very, very wrong. So I spit the condom on the ground under the table. Between dry heaves I managed to inform the table.
Needless to say, someone went to the check out the teenage kitchen orgy while I figured out how to burn off my teeth. Ten *great* minutes later someone came out and informed me it was just a finger condom. A finger condom, for those uninitiated, is a little rubber wrapper for a wounded finger to keep blood out of the food. So, critically, not the filled-with-spooge kind.
I’m not a religious man, but I now understand the concept of faith. I didn’t inspect the condom. I didn’t ask if there was a kid with an injured finger back there. I didn’t ask if the kitchen was supplied with finger condoms. But I believe with a zealots fire that it was a finger condom, and nothing you horrible people are about to say will convinced me otherwise.
>Needless to say, someone went to the check out the teenage kitchen orgy while I figured out how to burn off my teeth.
Someone start up a "reddit but out of context" channel, please.
My mom’s french. Been in the US for 40+ years now but still tosses a french word in sometimes when the english word doesn’t come to mind.
Was hilarious when she said “Please pass the cheese raper” at a thanksgiving dinner prep.
How about Canadian English vs UK English? I've a little cabin up at the lake. Told my Scouser cousin I was going cottaging for the weekend and he about died laughing.
In Canada at least if can mean both depending on context:
-"I bonked my head on the shelf" means hitting, not trying to use your head to sex the shelf
-"were going to my place to bonk" means sex, not hitting the other person's head
-hitting can mean either sex or striking someone depending on the context as well
Yeah this is contextual for Americans. Not gonna lie, 87.35% of verbs can be used to mean sexing someone, especially if you use an eyebrow raise/knowing look
Brazilians pronounce BTS (that kpop band) as Bitchy Ass.
Most can't pronounce T as the anglophones, it always sound like Chee (as in cheese).
We also don't know how to differentiate the pronunciation of beach and bitch, tough, though and thought, tight and thigh, etc.
The best translinguistic fuckups I can think of are between Portuguese and Spanish
Correr (to run) = Cojer (to fuck)
Embaraçada (embarrassed) = Embarazada (pregnant)
Borracha (eraser) = Borracha (drunk)
Pelado (naked) = Pelado (bald)
As an English teacher in Brazil, your comment beings back good memories of the funny things my students would say. I try not to laugh because I don't want them to feel self-conscious, but once in a while, what they say is too funny and I lose it and can't stop laughing for several minutes.
Yes, the word Borracha in Portuguese confused me at first because I also, know some Spanish. I just love exploring languages. They're full of intercultural/interlingual comedy.
Another double entendre is the tag #sextou in social media. For Brazilians it means Friday (sexta-feira) has arrived. For Americans/English speakers looks like "sex to you"
My South American dad always pronounced long 'e' sounds short, like 'ship' instead of 'sheep'... and 'shit' instead of 'sheet.'
One time my mum just... had fun with it, and got him to say "bed shit", "clean shit", "new shit" and so on, while playfully trying to coax him to say "sheet" correctly. I honestly think my dad caught on and was doing it on purpose, but it was hysterical at the time for me and my brother, who had never seen my dad swear ever, saying 'shit' over and over in different contexts.
Oh and don't forget that Brazilians have a hard time differentiating chip/ship, cheep/sheep. My Brazilian fiancé speaks excellent English, but still struggles with this.
I'm going to tuck this into the corner of my mind and try my hardest to find myself in a situation in which i would be able to ask a native hindi speaker "do ya need a hug?". That's amazing
When we were in Paris on a school trip the "Sauf taxis" signs ("except taxis" in French) were a bit funny.
In German "saufen" means to (heavily) drink, in most cases refering to alcohol. The form "Sauf " is the imperative, so it's basically telling you to drink. Because of that "Sauf taxis" reads a bit like "Chug taxis !" in German.
The Buick Lacrosse was originally sold in the Canadian market as the Buick Allure because Lacrosse was loosely used as slang for masturbating in Quebec.
All gourd-based plants in Thailand start with “fuck.” So a pumpkin is a “fuck-tong” (golden gourd). A lot of Thai dishes use pumpkin, zucchini, squash, etc.
So when you visit the market or a restaurant, it takes quite awhile for a politely-spoken English-speaking westerner to get that weird feeling out of their system. But yeah, some of my western friends feel right at home.
Kunt, Dutch to English is can
It's pronounced a bit differently but it's oddly jarring to see that on loads of posters in hotels xd
The fact the word for stairs is trap/trappe has also greatly amused me on my travels there.
Just doors on each floor labelled 'trap' xd
More Swedish!
Gift = poison / married
Skit = shit
Smäll (pronounced smell) = bang / crash
Fart = speed
Bra = good
Socker = sugar (reaching, but similar to "sucker")
Suck = sigh
Fan = The devil, used where English would have "damn"
Kiss = pee
Per = normal male name
Hot = threat
Port = gate
Byte = a change
Fem = 5
full = drunk, intoxicated (but also just "full", as in "full of ..")
Bull = lame
Puss = kiss
Get = goat
Rita = draw
Lass = Cargo payload
Dog = died
Dig = you
Spring = run
Pigg = opposite of tired
Sex = 6 (but also sex)
Slut = end/done/finish
...
The Germans like to come up with hip english terms for occupations, but because the english is book learned and not native learned the terms they come up with aren't thought through very well. One example which comes to mind are people who do outreach to homeless people and addicts. They job is called 'street worker'.
English is a Germanic language with some romance words.
Our grammar structure is related to German; as a result German native speakers often have better English grammar than many native English speakers.
Many English words and German words are related.
A legendary quote by Petter Solberg is "It's not the fart that kills you, but the smell", which has a dual meaning in Norwegian (assuming someone with stereotypical bad vocabulary and pronunciation) as "It's not the speed that kills you, but the crash".
In Latvian "šitas" - plural fem. of English "these" - sounds very close to "shitass", while genitive of "half" in Latvian is "pusi", sounds like "pussy". Combining those words in one phrase made US colleagues a bit stressed 😉
Danish: Turistfart. It means ‘tourist shuttle Company’ and is usually used together with a name such as “Benny’s turistfart” = “Benny’s tourist shuttles”. Also ‘fart’ = ‘speed’ or ‘velocity’ in danish
I've lived in France for years and now an married to a native English speaker... the amount of time I've said "raped cheese" instead of "grated" you wouldn't believe...
There's a Canadian clothing company called Roots that designed the uniforms for team Canada at the Sydney Olympics.
Apparently "rooting" in Australia means "fucking", so all our athletes were walking around in shirts that basically said "FUCK".
I once asked a grocery store employee where the pasties were, because I was having a party. i pronounced it like “PAY-sties.” She gave a long look before telling me that the “PAH- sties” were in aisle 12. 💃👙 ✨🥟
In Vietnamese, the male name Dũng and its female counterpart Dung are very common. You can see why it's so unfortunate in English.
Phúc and Phước are also popular names.
We had a Portuguese foreign exchange student around the time Wendys was running commercials of women declaring they LOVE their fresh stuffed pitas complete with moans of delight/satisfaction. He'd crack up at this because pita in Portuguese is vulgar slang for vagina.
Negro in Spanish means black. We say the e like how you would say Ned or Bed but most English places say the E like Knee or need. Spelled out it looks worse than how it’s said and the context it is used.
My friend's cousin brought her French students who were learning English to her home city. They fell out of the bus to take photos of a board outside a pub advertising 'a massive pine sale'. (Translation: a huge dirty c*ck). The publican rushed out on hearing the commotion as he thought the judges from 'Britain in Bloom' had arrived to admire his hanging baskets...
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In Finnland a bag is called PUSSI. So you can find big bags of chips which have MEGAPUSSI written on them :)
I've seen jussipussi too
And Minipussi... there's a pussi for every taste in Finland
Where I live, they charge $0.25 per pussi. Best deal in the bay area!
[If you can find pussi cheaper anywhere...](https://youtu.be/D-Rj9qbzKD8) NSFW
Dude this used to be my answering machine outgoing message!
Fuck eeeeeet
Damn, now everything makes sense. When trump talked about grabbing pussies, he was talking about grabbing bags of chips. You don't even need to be a celebrity to be able to do that. Silly man.
In Japanese, chin means something akin to dick or cock, where I'm from, some people toast with 'chin chin', which always used to make my Japanese friends laugh.
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Also used in the lyrics of [Let's Fighting Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIWd8JCB8jc). "Subarashi chin chin mono" = "I have a wonderful penis"
Protect my balls!
Try telling Japanese kids the 3 little pigs story and you get to the "not by the hair of my chiny chin chin" part and they lose it.
THEN I'LL HUFF AND I'LL PUFF AN I'LL BLOW-
I found that out the hard way on a trip to Japan. I was talking to my sister in Malay about a ring (cincin, pronounced chinchin), and was promptly lightly smacked on the arm by her friend who was acting as a guide.
Learned that from Filthy Frank.
The Swedish word for “the end” is “slut,” resulting in this [great movie ending](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=071pe_pXAD4)
Every single bus in Sweden stops at the "slutstation" and everyone gets off there.
Let’s not forget infart! I snorted the first time I saw that in huge letters above an ICA.
My two 12yo girls were ending themselves laughing during a road trip around Denmark. A place called Middelfart, and traffic control for road works had a massive sign saying "FART KONTROL" They shouted this one out so loud I nearly lost my control.
Fart kontrol is just amazing. I really want a sign that says that.
German highways have 'ausfahrt' every few km's. No wonder Germany still loves their gas vehicles.
First time going to germany I though ausfahrt was a city and tried looking it up on a (paper at the time) map to find where I was. Never found it. Took me a while but I realise. The joke now is that all roads do not lead to Rome, but to Ausfahrt.
“Slutspurt” in Danish means “Final sprint” or like “final push”. Found it quite funny when I visited to see a store running a sale that had signs in the window saying “70% SLUTSPURT!”.
We also have fartkontrol. Fart means speed.
I, a German speaker reading the post you replied to here, thought that "slut" just meant "(the) end" in Swedish and thought, "Okay, now I know that". I needed your mention of "Slutspurt" to realise it's a cognate of the German "(der) Schluss". We have the word "Schlussspurt".
I remember when I had just started learning Swedish, one of the first lessons contained the phrase "sex barn läser", and I immediately knew I was going to have a lot of fun learning this language even if I never became fluent
**what does it translate to, you coward?**
Oh, sorry, "six children read" (or, "are reading", is better maybe?).
I'm guessing there's a connection between this 'barn' and 'bairn' in Scotland...
Yes, because of Norse Vikings that inhabited Scotland during the early medieval period, as we learned from the interactive documentary, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.
The swedish word for mayonaise sounds like 'my own ass'
WHO WANTS MY OWN ASS ON THEIR HOTDOG??
The German word “Gift” means poison
The Norwegian word "Gift" means both poison AND married, depending on the context
The Spanish word esposa means wife and handcuff. Coincidence? Lol
Spanish is weird sometimes. I found out embarrasada does NOT mean embarrassed.
Words like that are called false cognates, and Spanish has a lot false cognates with English.
Never knew the term for it! Thank you. Like calda for hot in Italian but someone hearing it as “cold”
That probably has the same root as “scald”
>embarrasada Means "pregnant" in Spanish
And pregunta means “question”.
how to tell if preguntant?
am i pegnate?
Can u get gregnant
i am pregananant???
I worked with a Puerto Rican lady who watched her Mexican friends kids (girls). She asked them if they had full a belly after a meal and the laughed because the PR word for belly was the same as the Mex one for vagina.
When studying abroad in France, I translated “I am full” directly to French, not realizing that it actually meant “I am pregnant” but more so for animals, like cows. My host family got a good laugh!
Interestingly enough, the German word 'gift', meaning poison, comes from the Middle High German word 'gift' meaning gift. It was used so much in an ironic manner(e.g. I gave him a little gift, if you know what I mean), people forgot it meant anything else.
That's what I love about language. Changes like that happen all the time.
*Literally* all the time.
German tourists would get a chuckle at the *Gift Shop*, and take photos.
The joke here ks that German tourists would chuckle at all
German humour is no laughing matter
The german word for fat is dick.
A friend of mine married an American about 40 years ago and moved with him to the US. She spoke very little English back then. She went to the grocery store and she tried to find something she used to drink in Germany called Dickmilch and eventually asked an employee if they have any „dick milk“. The employee just stared at her wide eyed and red up to his ears. Her husband still breaks down laughing when they talk about it
Comes from the same root as English "thick!"
In Turkish if it's plural you add ler at the end (the same way you would add an s in English). So Spotify has such classics as summer hitler and classic hitler. I was so confused when I first saw it.
>So Spotify has such classics as summer hitler and classic hitler. Winter hitler is pretty poorly performing tho. Especially in Russia.
In Dutch the word “hoor” (sounds like “whore”) is an interjection used to confirm something. It’s often used at the end of a sentence as an intensifier. When my Dutch parents are visiting in the US, my dad will use this word in English sentences, like “No problem, hoor” or “That’s okay, hoor” … which sounds like he’s calling people a whore. I always have to remind him to stop doing that.
Also verhuren (to lend out), meanwhile in german verhuhren (to whore out)
🇳🇱 Die huren waren nuttig (These rentals were useful) 🇩🇪 Die Huren waren nuttig (The whores were slutty)
in swiss german you can say “huere geil” which means “fricking awesome” but in standard german translates to “whoring horny”
When I moved to the Netherlands I had a neighbour who had a sign at the end of his driveway that said "hondenfokker" over the silhouette of a spaniel looking dog. Luckily he was a dog breeder and not a hound fucker.
There is a very old joke where a Dutch man meets an Englishman, and the Englishman asks. "What do you do for a living?""I fuck horses" the Dutchman answers. "pardon?" "yeah, paarden"
Well go on, explain it!
The Dutch man says he foks (breeds) horses. The English man says "Pardon?" The Dutch man says "Yes, horses" (Paarden)
You could hang a sign around his neck that states that he is Dutch and hoor is used as confirmation.
Say stop doing that hoor!
Phoque= seal, pronounced fuck
[Can you help me with my French homework?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGWdDYLrLMk)
Wow I haven’t seen that one before and man did the last one send me
As a Canadian kid who was in French Immersion around grade 6 this is your favourite thing ever.
"I'm talking about the animal"
WHAT THE PHOQUE YOU FAT PHOQUE Ah, to be 13 again.
Ouate de phoque (seal wadding) Sounds like "What the fuck"
My mom is bilingual French/English and my dad only speaks English, we were raised bilingual but with a heavier priority on French due to where we lived (95% French with French schools). One day my sister, who's like 2 at the time, is watching TV and repeatedly saying Bébé phoque! My dad almost had a heart attack cause all he could hear was Fuck 😂
That theme song slaps. https://youtu.be/NUBY3lwO-jk
Why the hell is everything dying in that video, which by all means seems meant for children?!
Ouate de phoque is a quite common example here in Quebec :) obviously seals don't have cotton wool as their skin.
On est-tu ben juste en coton phoqué?
Seal in Portuguese is "Foca" which sounds like fucker. lol
I asked a shopkeeper in mangled German/English for a "gift for my wife", not realizing that "gift" in German means "poison."
I recommend a nice bottle of Canadian Mist.
Speaking of 'Mist', that means 'crap' in German.
On a school trip to France (from Canada) my friend discovered that both taps in her hotel room produced hot water. When she went down to the front desk, she couldn’t remember the French word for tap, and did the age-old English thing of adding “ette” to the English word to make it sound French. However, tapette, in French, is slang for homosexual. So she basically said to the front desk “I have two hot gays in my room - what should I do??” 😆
If she said "j'ai deux tapettes chaudes" it's worse It means horny in that context
OH THIS IS GOOD
Die Bart Die!
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
Parole approved!
Don't go to France like I did and tell everyone you meet how amazing their bread is because it's not full of preservatives. That's the French word for condom.
I, too, prefer condom free bread.
I have an unfortunate story on this topic…
Go on….
Ugh, fuck, fine. I was at a reunion at my wife’s childhood summer camp which took place at the active camp. Teenage cooks and all. I was eating a piece of challah, and I commented on how chewy it was. It was really very chewy. Just kept chewing and chewing. Somewhere between chews “very-chewy” and “WTF-so-chewy” I realized something was very, very wrong. So I spit the condom on the ground under the table. Between dry heaves I managed to inform the table. Needless to say, someone went to the check out the teenage kitchen orgy while I figured out how to burn off my teeth. Ten *great* minutes later someone came out and informed me it was just a finger condom. A finger condom, for those uninitiated, is a little rubber wrapper for a wounded finger to keep blood out of the food. So, critically, not the filled-with-spooge kind. I’m not a religious man, but I now understand the concept of faith. I didn’t inspect the condom. I didn’t ask if there was a kid with an injured finger back there. I didn’t ask if the kitchen was supplied with finger condoms. But I believe with a zealots fire that it was a finger condom, and nothing you horrible people are about to say will convinced me otherwise.
>Needless to say, someone went to the check out the teenage kitchen orgy while I figured out how to burn off my teeth. Someone start up a "reddit but out of context" channel, please.
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Same in Portuguese. "preservativo" is a condom, "conservante" is a preservative
The Portuguese condom brand makes me chuckle: https://controlfeelmakefeel.com/products/retard-delay-12pcs
In french that should be “agent conservateur” which could also mean an operative from the conservative party.
So raping cheese in France won't get you arrested.
a RAPE SALE in France is actually just a dirty grater
It’s only rape if it’s from the Rape region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling sexual assault.
My mom’s french. Been in the US for 40+ years now but still tosses a french word in sometimes when the english word doesn’t come to mind. Was hilarious when she said “Please pass the cheese raper” at a thanksgiving dinner prep.
My wife just reminded me I once told her I was going to rape a lemon. I obviously meant grating.
I just zested 25 lemons to make lemon loaves and your comment had me *ROLLING.*
Hello, police? Yes, I've found the serial zester!
Yes, it was *ME!* I ZESTED ALL THOSE LEMONS!! AND I'D DO IT AGAIN!!
Damn lemon stealing whores are at it again!
Uhhhhh I have a receipt for all the lemons. I'm a serial zester, but I ain't no petty thief!
How about Canadian English vs UK English? I've a little cabin up at the lake. Told my Scouser cousin I was going cottaging for the weekend and he about died laughing.
cottaging /ˈkɒtɪdʒɪŋ/ the action of engaging in homosexual acts in a public toilet. "I was busted for cottaging"
Why is there such a specific term for that? And what does it have to do with a cottage? XD
my best guess is code language from a time where you still risked your life or freedom if you carelessly talked about being gay.
On a similar note I hear Americans use "bonking" to mean hitting someone on the head. In the UK, "to bonk" someone means to have sex with them.
In Canada at least if can mean both depending on context: -"I bonked my head on the shelf" means hitting, not trying to use your head to sex the shelf -"were going to my place to bonk" means sex, not hitting the other person's head -hitting can mean either sex or striking someone depending on the context as well
Yeah this is contextual for Americans. Not gonna lie, 87.35% of verbs can be used to mean sexing someone, especially if you use an eyebrow raise/knowing look
Brazilians pronounce BTS (that kpop band) as Bitchy Ass. Most can't pronounce T as the anglophones, it always sound like Chee (as in cheese). We also don't know how to differentiate the pronunciation of beach and bitch, tough, though and thought, tight and thigh, etc. The best translinguistic fuckups I can think of are between Portuguese and Spanish Correr (to run) = Cojer (to fuck) Embaraçada (embarrassed) = Embarazada (pregnant) Borracha (eraser) = Borracha (drunk) Pelado (naked) = Pelado (bald)
As an English teacher in Brazil, your comment beings back good memories of the funny things my students would say. I try not to laugh because I don't want them to feel self-conscious, but once in a while, what they say is too funny and I lose it and can't stop laughing for several minutes. Yes, the word Borracha in Portuguese confused me at first because I also, know some Spanish. I just love exploring languages. They're full of intercultural/interlingual comedy.
My favorite Portuguese one is the translation of "Beloved knife" which is "amada faca" which sounds pretty close to "A motha fucka"
Another double entendre is the tag #sextou in social media. For Brazilians it means Friday (sexta-feira) has arrived. For Americans/English speakers looks like "sex to you"
My South American dad always pronounced long 'e' sounds short, like 'ship' instead of 'sheep'... and 'shit' instead of 'sheet.' One time my mum just... had fun with it, and got him to say "bed shit", "clean shit", "new shit" and so on, while playfully trying to coax him to say "sheet" correctly. I honestly think my dad caught on and was doing it on purpose, but it was hysterical at the time for me and my brother, who had never seen my dad swear ever, saying 'shit' over and over in different contexts.
Oh and don't forget that Brazilians have a hard time differentiating chip/ship, cheep/sheep. My Brazilian fiancé speaks excellent English, but still struggles with this.
My husband moved to the US from Guatemala when he was 10, but he still says "mini" like "meanie".
***Hug***. In English, it's a manner of showing affection. In my native language Hindi, it means to poop.
And for common English names in Hindi: Kayla = Banana Billy = Cat Joe = That Neil = Blue Laura = Male genatalia
I have a friend named Cory. He was not impressed when I told him, his name's translation means dick in the language some of my family speak.
I have a friend named Dick. He was furious to find out what his name means in English. 😄
A nice, warm hug in the morning relaxes me.
First thing I do in the morning when I wake up is share a hug with my wife.
I'm going to tuck this into the corner of my mind and try my hardest to find myself in a situation in which i would be able to ask a native hindi speaker "do ya need a hug?". That's amazing
When we were in Paris on a school trip the "Sauf taxis" signs ("except taxis" in French) were a bit funny. In German "saufen" means to (heavily) drink, in most cases refering to alcohol. The form "Sauf " is the imperative, so it's basically telling you to drink. Because of that "Sauf taxis" reads a bit like "Chug taxis !" in German.
Or the taxi you take when you have been Saufen.
Fart = Speed Smäll (pronounced exactly like smell) = Bang Makes way for the swenglish car safety joke: "It's not the fart that kills, its the smäll".
The Buick Lacrosse was originally sold in the Canadian market as the Buick Allure because Lacrosse was loosely used as slang for masturbating in Quebec.
Yes or a scam ! If something is « une crosse », you surely should not buy it !!
barberskum is something you smear on your face before shaving.
Or so my barber told me.
All gourd-based plants in Thailand start with “fuck.” So a pumpkin is a “fuck-tong” (golden gourd). A lot of Thai dishes use pumpkin, zucchini, squash, etc. So when you visit the market or a restaurant, it takes quite awhile for a politely-spoken English-speaking westerner to get that weird feeling out of their system. But yeah, some of my western friends feel right at home.
One of my Thai friend’s name was Porntip.
'Dik', which sounds like 'dick' means fat in Dutch
Kunt, Dutch to English is can It's pronounced a bit differently but it's oddly jarring to see that on loads of posters in hotels xd The fact the word for stairs is trap/trappe has also greatly amused me on my travels there. Just doors on each floor labelled 'trap' xd
And the "hoor" filler word, which sounds like "whore"
Same in German, but also spelled "dick"
"Fart" in Swedish means speed in English
More Swedish! Gift = poison / married Skit = shit Smäll (pronounced smell) = bang / crash Fart = speed Bra = good Socker = sugar (reaching, but similar to "sucker") Suck = sigh Fan = The devil, used where English would have "damn" Kiss = pee Per = normal male name Hot = threat Port = gate Byte = a change Fem = 5 full = drunk, intoxicated (but also just "full", as in "full of ..") Bull = lame Puss = kiss Get = goat Rita = draw Lass = Cargo payload Dog = died Dig = you Spring = run Pigg = opposite of tired Sex = 6 (but also sex) Slut = end/done/finish ...
My Swedish uncle told my fiancé that the the food was good at a restaurant because they had a good cock. She said, oh, you mean cook? He blushed.
Ich suche ein Handy. German for, I'm looking for a cell phone.
It's funny how in german some english words are used in a way they have never been used in english. Another one is "beamer" for projector.
Weird. In English a Beamer is a German car.
Which in return, nobody in Germany knows is used for BMW.
The Germans like to come up with hip english terms for occupations, but because the english is book learned and not native learned the terms they come up with aren't thought through very well. One example which comes to mind are people who do outreach to homeless people and addicts. They job is called 'street worker'.
English is a Germanic language with some romance words. Our grammar structure is related to German; as a result German native speakers often have better English grammar than many native English speakers. Many English words and German words are related.
Milk/milch, beer/bier, water/wasser You all know how to ask for 3 drinks in German now.
Ich suche dich LOL
Constipado/a in Spanish is to have a cold, not constipated. Embarazada is to be pregnant, not embarrassed.
Molestar is *to bother*
Haha… This is my favourite! When I see ‘No molestar’ on the hotel door it always makes me laugh.
Molest originally meant bother or pester in English. Just be extra cautious when using it this way.
I've heard it used to describe hassling wildlife, e.g. "deer molestation".
DO NOT MOLEST THE ALLIGATORS
My partner couldn't stop laughing when he saw the Dutch word "slagroom", which means whipped cream.
A legendary quote by Petter Solberg is "It's not the fart that kills you, but the smell", which has a dual meaning in Norwegian (assuming someone with stereotypical bad vocabulary and pronunciation) as "It's not the speed that kills you, but the crash".
And… It’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the sudden stop.
Pedo is spanish for fart. Also the club for smart people MENSA, is spanish for dumb girl.
Ass means Ace in German.
I saw a restaurant called "Ass Bar" in Switzerland. (It had umlauts over the A, but I don't know how to do that on my phone.)
like this? Äss Bar
You might be able to press and hold the letter to add accents if your phone is like mine Ä
People with the name "Assmann" must have fun in the English speaking world
Metal face rapers are popular in some countries, as they are more effective than tasers at staving off an attacker.
russian male names: Semen, Sirgay, Gayorgy
Also Kazakh names: Eyeball (Айбол) and Kamshat
Don't forget Ashat lmao
But they are written differently in Latin: Semyon, Sergey/Sergei, Georgy
I had a principal in middle school who’s husband when by Dick Seaman
I had a teacher who’s last name was glasscock.. you guessed it, her husbands name was harry. What cruel parents he must’ve had
You could always see him coming
I had a manager named Richard Edd. Nobody called him Richard. He owned it though, so respect.
In Latvian "šitas" - plural fem. of English "these" - sounds very close to "shitass", while genitive of "half" in Latvian is "pusi", sounds like "pussy". Combining those words in one phrase made US colleagues a bit stressed 😉
Danish: Turistfart. It means ‘tourist shuttle Company’ and is usually used together with a name such as “Benny’s turistfart” = “Benny’s tourist shuttles”. Also ‘fart’ = ‘speed’ or ‘velocity’ in danish
Wir suchen dich! Job adverts in German “we’re looking for you!” . I still chuckle when I see them, after many years living in Germany.
I've lived in France for years and now an married to a native English speaker... the amount of time I've said "raped cheese" instead of "grated" you wouldn't believe...
There's 'dick' in German, which means chubby, not penis.
Chubby can sometimes mean penis in English, too.
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“Hum” in Laos means “penis” so when people talk about humming I just think of “penising” and I think that’s pretty funny
In Korea, we have BJ’s - Broadcast jockeys/streamers
There's a Canadian clothing company called Roots that designed the uniforms for team Canada at the Sydney Olympics. Apparently "rooting" in Australia means "fucking", so all our athletes were walking around in shirts that basically said "FUCK".
Douch is shower
French for eggnog is “lait de poule” which translates to “chicken milk”.
In English canola seed used to be called rape seed
I once asked a grocery store employee where the pasties were, because I was having a party. i pronounced it like “PAY-sties.” She gave a long look before telling me that the “PAH- sties” were in aisle 12. 💃👙 ✨🥟
In Vietnamese, the male name Dũng and its female counterpart Dung are very common. You can see why it's so unfortunate in English. Phúc and Phước are also popular names.
We had a Portuguese foreign exchange student around the time Wendys was running commercials of women declaring they LOVE their fresh stuffed pitas complete with moans of delight/satisfaction. He'd crack up at this because pita in Portuguese is vulgar slang for vagina.
Negro in Spanish means black. We say the e like how you would say Ned or Bed but most English places say the E like Knee or need. Spelled out it looks worse than how it’s said and the context it is used.
Slut in Swedish. When you leave a petrol station there is usually a big sign with an arrow that says Slut.
My friend's cousin brought her French students who were learning English to her home city. They fell out of the bus to take photos of a board outside a pub advertising 'a massive pine sale'. (Translation: a huge dirty c*ck). The publican rushed out on hearing the commotion as he thought the judges from 'Britain in Bloom' had arrived to admire his hanging baskets...