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OptionalThis says itâs actually âtip-toe gooseâ which . . . also good.
äŒäž seems to mean âbusiness / company / corpo / firmâ and my dictionary says äŒ is also an abbreviation for it.
So I guess thatâs how we get to the OPâs joke.
Iâm guessing é„żäŒ would be read âGoose Corp.â then ?
MudManIn Romanian, "prince charming" literally translates to "pretty fetus".
In my experience, Romanians tend to react to being confronted with this fact by going quiet for a while and then trying to explain that this is not strictly incorrect but there's more to it, and then they try to explain it away and then they go quiet again.
Just did it to a Romanian friend and I could just see the writing dots on the screen for a while. Success
I swear, it's the exact same reaction every time. It's amazing, like a culture-wide Manchurian Candidate activation code.
I have this with the Spanish translation of toes. Dedos de los pies. The literal translation would be fingers of the foot.
In Japanese a thermos bottle is called éæłç¶/Mahoubin, which literally translated means magic bottle.
They love their magic stuff in Japan. They call velcro âmagic tapeâ.
One of my favorites from Japanese is that they call mons pubis the âshame/embarassed hillâ (æ„äž), because of course they have to be weird about it.
Itâs beyond weird, you see this in lots of places where the patriarchy influenced society and language to this point of control and inequality between the sexes. Only in recent years where i live have these terms been changed in favor of a more equal view on genders with language that reflects that to go with it.
It seems like tape is more magical that Velcro.
BruncvikâHippoâ in German translates as âThe horse of the Nileâ. Itâs such a fun language, with its word combinations.
Got a thing without make? I present â-Zeugâ!
- Fly thing? Flugzeug
- Fire thing? Feuerzeug
- Thing you need for work? Werkzeug The things that you punch to make sounds? Schlagzeug
I love German.
It sounds like an Orc saying âzug.â
âMe take TPS report zug to work zug.â
No, a Zug ist a train. And itâs probably late
MacN'CheezusWait till you learn what âairplaneâ, âlighterâ, and âtoolâ have in common.
Basically the same in English-- the etymology is PIE through Greek and Latin meaning river horse. Historians call horse/chariot stadiums from ancient Greece hippodromes.
Still called river horse in Swedish (flodhÀst), not exclusive to the Nile though.
edgemaster72Lemmy told me that raccoon in German literally translates as âwashing bearâ and I still think about that at least once a week
Its true for Dutch, so Iâm sure itâs true for German as well, in Dutch itâs called a wasbeer
TvÀttbjörn in Swedish
Skullgridhurr hurr twat bear
de wasbeen im der kukstooel
Can confirm, WaschbÀr in German.
Wash Rat in French