yar Diglot Newbie United States bytetrash.blogspot.c Joined 5587 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Korean
| Message 65 of 140 29 August 2009 at 5:05pm | IP Logged |
My realy name sounds very odd in Portuguese and can e constued as Rainha Chupeta, which can mean Queen (Sex Act.) Not a great name for an adolescent boy. Luckily that mistake didn't happen to often.
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LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 66 of 140 30 August 2009 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
I know of a place in Berlin called "The Fucuall Shop". I find that quite amusing.
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Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5706 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian
| Message 67 of 140 04 September 2009 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
When my bf graduated, one of the people getting their degree had the Hindi surname of Dikshit. Hilariously, on the jumbo screen that showed several names at a time, someone with the last name Cockburn was presented on the same slide. :)
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 68 of 140 04 September 2009 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
Ashley_Victrola wrote:
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I knew someone with that surname in Uni and he pronounced it as "coburn".
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Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6140 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese
| Message 69 of 140 04 September 2009 at 5:45pm | IP Logged |
showtime17 wrote:
I know a lot of Thai girls have names ending with "porn". And some of
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Porn is a popular Thai nickname for girls meaning "gift".
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drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6449 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written)
| Message 70 of 140 04 September 2009 at 7:23pm | IP Logged |
Lisa Fantasia
- The name of a French teacher!
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Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish
| Message 71 of 140 04 September 2009 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
I'm not sure if it's an actual name or just a joke, but I once saw a petition signed
Apyar Anus.
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LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 72 of 140 06 September 2009 at 8:40pm | IP Logged |
We also met a man called Omar Sharif in Turkey..... then again there was also a man
claiming to be Bob Marley...
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