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[lenslik]

English- "Dinet" as a place where people dine, a diner...
and Russian- "DA i Net", sound the same, anything else?

 

[SilentAiche]

Urine (English): uh, pee.

Urine (US south): Can you move, please, urine my way.

Apologies to all - I just couldn't resist!

THanks,
Tim

 

[trollacious]

And don't forget:

Urine: it ain't mine, it's urine.

Lee

 

[tgreer]

In my High School days, I dropped my girlfriend off at her house. She exited the car, and as I reached over to pull the passenger door closed, I yelled after her, "Je t'adore!". She turned around, put her hand on her hip and shot back "Shut it yourself!"

 

[tsdragon]

I heard this one from Olivia Newton John on a talk show many years ago:

eggnishner: the thing you use to keep your house cool in summer.

Others:

Q: Jeet?
A: Yeah, I had a sandwich.

Q: Yanna?
A: Sure, why not.


Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[BocaBurger]

Vaca is cow in Spanish and stupid in Japanese. Kartofel is potato in German and Russian. Da is yes in Russian and big in Mandarin.

Ma is mother in Shanghainese. Pa is father. Ma is also horse. Yu is jade.

"There are gasous rings around Uranus" Carl Sagan.



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[Dimandja]

A relative of mine was forced to change his last name when he got married, because his new wife could not use it in public. In her native language, the name was a four-letter unprintable word.

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[Stella740pl]

Kartofel is potato in German and Russian.

That's not a coincidence. For Russian, it's a borrowed word (don't know about German). If we count all the borrowed words in all languages as similar-sounding examples... Let's not go there.

 

[BocaBurger]

Yawl come and sale(sp) on my yawl.


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[ESquared]

The way a native Portuguese-speaker says "aba pai" is really close in sound to "apple pie."

(Translation: "abba father", perhaps "daddy father")

The word for mango in Portuguese is manga. And manga is also the word in Portuguese for sleeve. So I enjoy calling my sleeves "mangoes.

 

[PaulTEG]

I found these in a book a few years back called "all you ever wanted to know about advertising, but were too legal, decent and honest to ask"

Mostly European (and alleged, because I didn't have time to fully research the book)

Nova - (Vauxhall/GM) Had to be renamed in Spain - NO GO
Punto - Fiat - renamed in Mexico - colloq. for tiny manhood

until their respective renamings, I'd assume their similarly soundingness didn't help their sales quotas

They're proper nouns, and probably don't belong in this discussion, but I found them funny nonetheless ;-)

--Paul

cigless ...

 

[ESquared]

The Nova story is an urban legend.

 

[BocaBurger]

There was a web site hosting company a few years back called WeAreNTHosting.net, but when rendered in lowercase, they found out why business was not so good.

No urban legend here, I saw the ads.



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[CrystalStart]

Tea (English) - Chai (Pakistan) Chai (Russia)

 

[BocaBurger]

Cha- Mandarin, Ocha - Japanese. Look up Kombucha and see how many countries drink it.

Lucha = green tea - Mandarin

JAVA - coffee or programming language?

Why is the name for Japan not Nippon? Spain - Espana, Deutcheland - Germany, Mexico = Mexico. What are they trying to do?



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[CrystalStart]

BocaBurger,
you sound like my kid who asks why a "tree" is not a "car"?

 

[MakeItSo]

@BocaBurger: Why is the name for Japan not Nippon
It is...Japan is often referred to as Nippon. Where did you get the impression it wasn't?

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[BocaBurger]

Where? Not in the areas of the US I have lived and traveled.



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[Dimandja]

Nippon (or Nihon) is the Japanese name for Japan.
Outside of Japan, Nippon is usually known as the constitutional monarchy ruling the Japanese archipelago.

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[MakeItSo]

Well, I'm from Germany and have heard it quite often. Whenever one finds it appropriate to use the native name of a country, Japan is referred to as Nippon.
See:
[ul][li]All Nippon Airways [/li]
[li]The Nippon foundation[/li]
[li]Nippon News[/li]
...
[/ul]

A quick search will give you sufficient results.
Haiiii!


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