English swearwords in other languages

[tubragg]

Swedish slutspurt, which I think means "clearance sale" or something.

It actually means "final sprint", but can certainly be applied, and sometimes is, to the final days of a sale.

[ol bofosh]

Apparently there is a marshmallow in IKEA called GODIS SKUM (sweet foam?). A hit with the militant atheists, lol.

[Skomakar'n]

Apparently there is a marshmallow in IKEA called GODIS SKUM (sweet foam?). A hit with the militant atheists, lol.

I sure hope it's not called GODIS SKUM, because it's supposed to be GODISSKUM (and yes, sweet foam, or candy foam or whatever). One may also find yulescum here in Christmas time.

Swedish slutspurt, which I think means "clearance sale" or something.

It actually means "final sprint", but can certainly be applied, and sometimes is, to the final days of a sale.

Might as well bring up the classic 'fack' ('union' or 'slot'), then, and 'facket' (definite form).

[Ser]

[Skomakar'n]

http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uplo ... -ikea.jpeg

Oh, no...

[ol bofosh]

Wonder why...

Mistake? Marketing?

[richard1631978]

A few words in my French lessions would get a laugh.

Cuillère (spoon) & Banque (bank) come to mind.

I did spot in a guidebook to Morrocco a warning not to use some words that can sound rude in Arabic, blue & zucchini come to mind.

[Skomakar'n]

Arabic, blue

Arse rack?

[Shrdlu]

The English word "bit" sounds a lot like the French word for cock. As it's often following "a little", French teenagers find this hilarious.

Don't forget bit sale.

[Pthagnar]

who says bit sale or bit sal or anything like bite sale

[Shrdlu]

You expect me to keep track of all the ways French can fuck it's pronunciation of words?


"Whoa".


^edit: Well, I don't remember the context but there was a case here where I live that some shop wrote "bite sale" on a huge sign advertising something, with the probably intended meaning "Come take a bite out of this!". This was in an area hugely populated by seasonal tourists, so.... yeah. Lot's of Frenchies probably saw a nice big sign saying Dirty Dick that day.

[Ser]

Arabic, blue

Arse rack?

I think he meant it the other way, that [blu] and [zuˈkini] could potentially sound like some words of bad taste in Morocccan. No idea what words they would be though.

[ol bofosh]

A few words in my French lessions would get a laugh.

Cuillère (spoon) & Banque (bank) come to mind.

I get banque (bonk), but cuillère?

Wait... queer? I never got that (if it is).

[Gulliver]

A few words in my French lessions would get a laugh.

Cuillère (spoon) & Banque (bank) come to mind.

I get banque (bonk), but cuillère?

Wait... queer? I never got that (if it is).

Cuire is another good'un. Especially when your teacher decides to mime the word by pretending she's holding the handle of a pan and wiggling it back and forth (giggling to herself constantly, because lots and lots of cooking motions look like you're wanking someone off at various angles and she just went with it).

[ol bofosh]

Just imagine the reaction if there were les banque de cuire in France. And les banque de cuillère for extra flare.

(I had the hots for one of my French teachers, that action might have provoked something else )

[Noriega]

Might as well bring up the classic 'fack' ('union' or 'slot'), then, and 'facket' (definite form).

In Swedish, there's also kant, meaning 'edge', 'corner', 'border'. 'Crust-free' (like a bread) is then kantfri. Another, less common, word is kitt 'cement', 'putty', pronounced approximately like English 'shit'.

[linguoboy]

In Swedish, there's also kant, meaning 'edge', 'corner', 'border'. 'Crust-free' (like a bread) is then kantfri. Another, less common, word is kitt 'cement', 'putty', pronounced approximately like English 'shit'.

My college roommate had trouble with both Swedish /ç/ and Swedish /œ/ and used to say kött just like English shit.

I think I've mentioned here before being caught short by a shitheadh [əˈhɪhə] ("swooping") in an Irish-language children's book.

[Xephyr]

a shitheadh [əˈhɪhə]

Awesome.

[Torco]

cunt-ar [contar, to count
focaccia [a kind of pizza, pronaunsd fuck-achia]

[Yagia]

in Dutch: kut = cunt; pik = dick.
So when an operator or a movie director says 'cut', he'd better not do this on a filmset with Dutch actresses around.
Worse, 'kut' is also a (very) rude way to adress a woman. Pars pro toto, and the like.

Likewise, in the Netherlands, don't go 'picking and cutting' flowers when ladies are around...
English 'f...ing' has been readily replaced by fokking in youth slang (also popular with radio DJ's ...)
Surinam/Antillian slang in Holland has fok jou!. No more translation needed.
See aso the post earlier in this thread about 'I fok horses'

The other way around, there was this Dutch prime minister named Wim Kok...
And a former Postal Service CEO was called Wim Dik...
(btw, kok in Dutch just means 'cook'; dik is 'fat' cf. 'thick')

and so on...
En wil er nog iemand neuken?

[Qwynegold]

Kind of already said: Japanese has shite (do-CONJ), allthough it's pronunciation doesn't sound any weird. Swedish has fart which means speed. Oh, and kock meaning cook. Someone posted a picture of Swedish Master Chef which is called Sveriges mästerkock here.

[Ambrisio]

Muthuswami Dikshitar is a famous Indian composer.

[Pabappa]

There's also a few people just named Dikshit (often spelled Dixit). I had a customer of Indian background who didn't want to say his name out loud, so he handed me his card and it was a 20 letter chain of words ending with Punani.

[clawgrip]

And let's not forget Cockburn.

[GrinningManiac]

oh I forgot - we learned Spanish as children over French or German so we didn't have Sechs but we had Grassy Arses (gracias)

Slut is swedish for 'end' and can be used where we use 'fin' at the end of films. I find that inordinately funny.

In Cusco, Peru I was privilleged to visit Saqsayhuaman Fortess. Pronounce Sek-say Hwoo-man.

Sorry about my spelling and stuff. I can't type on ipads