Anyway, I also note people tend to be mischievous when it goes to language.

Indonesia is a very diverse country. Bahasa Indonesia is both our lingua franca and official language. Yet, every region has its own ethnic language. Last year I went to Bali, and before my departure, a friend of mine told me that the word mekatuk is the formal, polite greeting word to address a lady. Fortunately, I'm not a gullible person. 🤣

Correction, I am NOT a Danish (pastry) I am either Danish 😀 or a Dane 😀

But that is small potatoes 😀 when in fact I understand what KAN meant 😀

WolverineDK wrote:

Correction, I am NOT a Danish (pastry) I am either Danish 😀 or a Dane 😀

But that is small potatoes 😀 when in fact I understand what KAN meant 😀

I stand corrected. 😀

Anyway, I just discovered that Røvguitar is a word. I mean, what does arse have to do with guitar?

Don't know about others, but I find learning expletives is fun. When I took a German course some years ago, it was actually the dirty words that help me to study quicker. 🤣

I know the word you are talking about, but I believe you should find the word, in the Danish dictionary (online) , and let google try to translate the meaning of the word.

Talking about penises, a lot of Chinese goods that are exported to Russia have strange names where letters "H", "U", "I" or "A" meet together. The combination of first three is a very offensive word, you get the meaning.

For those not familar with A Song of Ice and Fire, one of the characters in named Jorah Mormont. "Jorah" means "sweage pit" in hebrew and arabic... I mentioned that to my Canadian friend (the one who introduced me to the series), and she nearly fell out of her chair laughing.
I only got the joke when I got to book #3 (spoiler). :)

Well, a Romanian joke (double entendre) is written like "Notre poul dans votre court". Is supposed to mean "Our chicken in your yard" in French. When said/pronounced correctly in French, it sounds like "Notre pul dans votre cur", which in Fromanian means "our penis in your anus"

Another word which makes me laugh is Italian "finocchio". Its literal meaning is a plant/vegetable. Second meaning is gay, as in homosexual. How the hell did my Latin cousins arrived to that, I cannot explain.

While PULA has several other meanings in other languages (a city in Croatia, the word for rain and national currency in Botswana) in Romanian is slang word for penis.

I think it's funny when people call each other 'dude'... It's not pleasant if you know what a dude actually is!

@powerPie5000
Well... My language is a very flexible one. "Dude" is english loanword. But "duda" has almost same meaning as penis. in archaic Romanian, duda means pipe. So, by changing a vowel, you get from "friend/mate" to "pipe/conduit/penis"

hmmm before any one else says it, then I will "penis penis penis" 😉 (sadly I can not find the old sketch) where the women go crazy. Because a man is saying the aforementioned "sentence" with the same word.

In the Quebecois dialect of French, various religious terms such as "tabernac" (tabernacle), "criss" (Christ), and "calice" (chalice) are often used as strong profanities, which I can imagine must be quite confusing and/or amusing for French speakers from other regions. 🤣

Here in the province of Alberta, English is the dominant language, but among French speakers here there is definitely some Quebecois influence, and as such you'll sometimes hear them using the same types of profanities.

Wikipedia actually has a pretty good article on this unique linguistic phenomena, known as "sacre" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity

WolverineDK wrote:

hmmm before any one else says it, then I will "penis penis penis" 😉 (sadly I can not find the old sketch) where the women go crazy. Because a man is saying the aforementioned "sentence" with the same word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_d … h8IvTzuaw#t=12s

WolverineDK wrote:

....a Danish (pastry).....

My home used to have a never ending supply of Kjeldsen's Butter Cookies, replenished every week or two!

RacoonRider wrote:

...."H", "U", "I" or "A" meet together. The combination of first three is a very offensive word....

Fortunately, Chinese is a tonal language. Even if you say the words constructed from the same set of alphabets with the same arrangement, if the tone is different, it gives an entirely different meaning.

Almost everyone would have heard the term "Sunni Muslim" which refers to a sect of Islam. The word "Sunni" - if pronounced as 's-oo-nn-ee' is actually a "bad word" or a "vulgar" slang for penis in the language of Tamil (of South India). For the Tamil Muslims, the word "Sunni" will put them in a "fix" whenever they are referred to as such. The word "Sunni" originated from the Arabic language, though.

Grand Admiral Kontol is a good one! 🤣

Saying Chin Chin as a way to celebrate or to "toast to someone" in Latin America/Spain whereas it means Penis in japanese 🤣

Diversity in languages is crazy but fun. 😎

Malik wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

...."H", "U", "I" or "A" meet together. The combination of first three is a very offensive word....

Fortunately, Chinese is a tonal language. Even if you say the words constructed from the same set of alphabets with the same arrangement, if the tone is different, it gives an entirely different meaning.

I totally undestand that, but would you like to wear, say, sandals with a word "penis" all over them? 😀