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tais
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 Message 121 of 140
05 October 2010 at 7:34am | IP Logged 
I hope this isn't too crude but I met a busty girl in Belgium named titsiana
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Olympia
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 Message 122 of 140
09 October 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged 
My teaching assistant's last name is Teta. In Spanish, this means "breast." A Puerto Rican friend and I were beside ourselves with laughter.
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patuco
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 Message 123 of 140
09 October 2010 at 12:32pm | IP Logged 
There's a new Indian doctor in our local clinic who's called Dr Dikshit.
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BiaHuda
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 Message 124 of 140
15 October 2010 at 12:01pm | IP Logged 
I worked with this Dutch fellow named Ruud Kok. He was actually quite proud of his name I might ađ.
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Gosiak
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 Message 125 of 140
24 November 2010 at 3:15pm | IP Logged 
cordelia0507 wrote:
I once participated in a conference in Sweden where I'm from.
A British woman also participated, and her name tag said "Pippa Best"

When I got chatting to her, she mentioned that a lot of people were staring at her name
tag with a strange look.

She could not know, of course that "pippa" is the slang word for " _____" And Best
happens to be almost the same thing in Swedish.

When she mentioned that she was flying back shortly, I decided not to enlighten her ---
or she'd cringe for the rest of her life, every time she thought of Sweden.

Pippa (nick name for Phillippa) is cute in England, but anybody with that name should
remember NOT to use the nickname in Sweden at least.

Not sure if it's used in the same way in Norway and Denmark.



Polish people would also stare at this poor lady :D I believe that 'pipa' in Polish has
the same meaning as in Swedish. It is a slang word for vagina.

Some funny Polish names:
Hel (yes, we have it too! :D) - a peninsula
Małe Swornegacie - a village; 'małe sforne gacie' means 'little obedient pants'
Nędza - a city, means 'poverty'
Villages:
Kały - possible plural form of 'kał' which means 'faeces'
Nowe Rumunki - 'new Romanian women'
Lenie Wielkie - 'huge idlers'
Dolne Wymiary - 'low dimensions'
Krzywe Kolano - 'crooked knee'
Podła Góra - 'nasty mountain'
Niebo - 'sky/heaven'; we only lack purgatory :)
Wągry - 'blackheads' bleh :/
Zimna Wódka - 'cold vodka'
Pomyje - 'pigswill'
Rusek Mały - 'little Russian'
Pupki - 'bums'
Zgon - 'demise' and also a very popular name for a person that is too drunk to move

and there are more of those :)

Podła Góra -    

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Chung
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 Message 126 of 140
24 November 2010 at 9:12pm | IP Logged 
Gosiak wrote:
cordelia0507 wrote:
I once participated in a conference in Sweden where I'm from.
A British woman also participated, and her name tag said "Pippa Best"

When I got chatting to her, she mentioned that a lot of people were staring at her name
tag with a strange look.

She could not know, of course that "pippa" is the slang word for " _____" And Best
happens to be almost the same thing in Swedish.

When she mentioned that she was flying back shortly, I decided not to enlighten her ---
or she'd cringe for the rest of her life, every time she thought of Sweden.

Pippa (nick name for Phillippa) is cute in England, but anybody with that name should
remember NOT to use the nickname in Sweden at least.

Not sure if it's used in the same way in Norway and Denmark.



Polish people would also stare at this poor lady :D I believe that 'pipa' in Polish has
the same meaning as in Swedish. It is a slang word for vagina.

Some funny Polish names:
Hel (yes, we have it too! :D) - a peninsula
Małe Swornegacie - a village; 'małe sforne gacie' means 'little obedient pants'
Nędza - a city, means 'poverty'
Villages:
Kały - possible plural form of 'kał' which means 'faeces'
Nowe Rumunki - 'new Romanian women'
Lenie Wielkie - 'huge idlers'
Dolne Wymiary - 'low dimensions'
Krzywe Kolano - 'crooked knee'
Podła Góra - 'nasty mountain'
Niebo - 'sky/heaven'; we only lack purgatory :)
Wągry - 'blackheads' bleh :/
Zimna Wódka - 'cold vodka'
Pomyje - 'pigswill'
Rusek Mały - 'little Russian'
Pupki - 'bums'
Zgon - 'demise' and also a very popular name for a person that is too drunk to move

and there are more of those :)

Podła Góra -    


Those names remind me of the time when I was riding a train in Poland and we stopped at Łazy. If I hadn't looked closely at the station's sign, I might have thought that the place could have been so named for its shiftless citizenry.

In Czech Republic there is a village in the far northeast which is indeed called Lazy.

I remember hearing of a "Drinkwalter" family and meeting a very attractive Slovak girl whose family name is "Boberová" (-ová is a standard suffix applied to females bearing a family name. In Slovenian, "bober" means 'beaver' which is cognate to the Slovak "bobor")

There was also a successful German fighter pilot, Erich Hartmann whose nickname "Bubi" elicited a few giggles when I first heard of his nickname as a boy.

There is also a sad case of a Bosnian girl named Sladjana Vidović who was mercilessly bullied in Ohio to the point of suicide partially because her bullies had corrupted her name and regularly called her "Slutty-Jana" among other insults.
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 Message 127 of 140
24 November 2010 at 10:02pm | IP Logged 
There's someone in town here named I.P. Rainwater, so I'm told.
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QiuJP
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 Message 128 of 140
04 December 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged 
There are quite a few girls here with the name of Jean. Unfortunately, it is the French
equivalent of John. My French classmate commented that girls with this name must be
transsexuals who forgot to change their given name. He is joking of course but I found it
hard to call a girl Jean since then.....


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