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| Darya0Khoshki Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5072 days ago 71 posts - 91 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Iraqi) Studies: Persian | Message 9 of 19 23 January 2011 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
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In Kurdish, the word for watermelon is "shitty".
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| jsun Groupie Joined 5089 days ago 62 posts - 129 votes | Message 10 of 19 23 January 2011 at 7:08am | IP Logged |
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Mandarin: 洗錢(money laundering)
Cantonese: 洗錢(spend money) (neutral, no bad meaning) Hokkien: 拍針 (injection) Cantonese: 拍針 (DRUG injection) (negative meaning) Hokkien: 拍丸 (medicine taking) Cantonese: 拍丸 (DRUG taking) (negative meaning) Sounds similar English: delay no more Cantonese: f*** your mother (屌diu 你nei 老no 母mo) 香港Hongkong, fragrant port, as this place shipped fragrant wood to the world in the past. Mandarin: xiang gang Cantonese: heung gong (standard cantoense), hong gong (tanka cantonese) In the ear of Cantonese, "xiang" sounds like 腥(seng), stinky. When a Cantonese person hears Hong Kong in Mandarin, it will be translated as... 腥港, stinky port Cantonese: seng gong 新加坡Singapore Mandarin: xin jia bo Cantonese: saan gaa bo In Cantonese, the Mandarin reading sounds like "first grope breast" 先揸波 (sin jaa bo). 陰謀(secret plan) Mandarin: yin mou Cantonese: yam mau 陰毛(pubic hair) Mandarin: yin mao Cantonese: yam mou Many Cantonese people mess up these two when they speak Mandarin/Mandarin speakers mess up these two when they speak in Cantonese Therefore, 陰謀, a secret plan, becomes 陰毛, pubic hair Japanese: 何だよ (nandayo) (I don't actually speak Japanese. But I always hear this phrase. I looked up dictionary so it means "what!"... ) Cantonese: 撚大唷 (landaiyo) (penis big yo~) Edited by jsun on 23 January 2011 at 8:00am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5195 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 11 of 19 25 January 2011 at 7:33am | IP Logged |
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The Danish word "fart" means speed.
The Danish word "hummer" means lobster. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7160 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 12 of 19 25 January 2011 at 7:56am | IP Logged |
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Polish: frajer "sucker", "dunce"
Slovak: frajer "boyfriend" Polish: szukam "I'm looking for..." Slovak: šukám "I'm f*cking..." Russian: лупа "magnifying glass" Ukrainian: лупа "dandruff" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5859 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 13 of 19 25 January 2011 at 8:15am | IP Logged |
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Let me contribute some:
English: adventure Russian: авантюра : shady enterprise English: confuse Russian: конфус : embarrassment (not that confuse me.......) English: lunatic Russian: лунатик : sleep-walker 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5770 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 14 of 19 25 January 2011 at 10:09am | IP Logged |
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Брат [brat] means "brother" in Russian
And obviously means an annoying child or something similar in English 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6607 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 19 25 January 2011 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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English: to shrink, to contract
Irish: crap 1 person has voted this message useful |
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