Words which are funny in other languages

#1

The Welsh for carrot is moron.

#2

The french for croissant is le flange

#3

I did not know that.

#4

sitzpinkler

#5

No need to bring ant into this

#6

Did you know that Sitzriese is someone who is particularly tall when sitting.

#7

I was not aware of that.

#8

@harru is Albanian for ‘forgot’

(Shrewbie found this.)

#9

Maybe that means that the Albanian for forgot is funny in English, actually.

#10

Always had a soft spot for the German for rubber glove, which is Gummihandschuh

#11

Who was it that describes a blowie as gummie or something? Was it Theo?

#12

gloves in dutch is ‘handschoenen’ which means hand shoes.

#13

Fucking hell, kitsch, those orange pricks just nicked that shit from the Germans.

#14

dutch for whipped cream is slagroom

#15

this is now the dutch thread

hup hup

#16

The German pronunciation of the letter ‘y’ is oopsey-lon. Always amused us in German lessons. As did the German word for ‘journey’, which is ‘Fahrt’.

#17

6 in German, obvs

#18

Blame the Greeks.

#19

But enough about european financial instability…

#20

“shut up” in Slovak (drž hubu) translates to “hold a mushroom” in English