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MudMan 35 points 2 years ago

In 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 tell you 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.

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goldenbug 27 points 2 years ago

Just did it to a Romanian friend and I could just see the writing dots on the screen for a while. Success

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MudMan 16 points 2 years ago

I swear, it's the exact same reaction every time. It's amazing, like a culture-wide Manchurian Candidate activation code.

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homesweethomeMrL 23 points 2 years ago

This says it's actually "tip-toe goose" which . . . also good.

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feedum_sneedson 3 points 2 years ago

企鹅

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fibojoly 1 point 2 years ago

企业 seems to mean "business / company / corpo / firm" and my dictionary says 企 is also an abbreviation for it. So I guess that's how we get to the OP's joke. I'm guessing 鹅企 would be read "Goose Corp." then ?

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wal_kr 13 points 2 years ago

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Bruncvik 13 points 2 years ago

"Hippo" in German translates as "The horse of the Nile". It's such a fun language, with its word combinations.

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PlexSheep 16 points 2 years ago

Got a thing without name? I present "-Zeug"!

Fly thing? Flugzeug
Fire thing? Feuerzeug
Thing you need for work? Werkzeug
The things that you punch to make sounds? Schlagzeug
Unidentified things? Zeug

I love German.

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aeronmelon 7 points 2 years ago

It sounds like an Orc saying “zug.”

“Me take TPS report zug to work zug.”

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PlexSheep 1 point 2 years ago

No, a Zug ist a train. And it's probably late

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tigeruppercut 12 points 2 years ago

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.

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AreaSIX 6 points 2 years ago

Still called river horse in Swedish (flodhäst), not exclusive to the Nile though.

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edgemaster72 6 points 2 years ago

Lemmy told me that raccoon in German literally translates as "washing bear" and I still think about that at least once a week

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undefinedValue 3 points 2 years ago

Wash Rat in French

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EddoWagt 2 points 2 years ago

Its true for Dutch, so I'm sure it's true for German as well, in Dutch it's called a wasbeer

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AreaSIX 3 points 2 years ago

Tvättbjörn in Swedish

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Skullgrid 3 points 2 years ago

hurr hurr twat bear

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PlexSheep 1 point 2 years ago

Can confirm, Waschbär in German.

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Skullgrid 1 point 2 years ago

de wasbeer im de kukstooel

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goldenbug 4 points 2 years ago

It's an amazing language. My favorite is the word for contraceptive pills: antibabypille!

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MacNCheezus 3 points 2 years ago

Wait till you learn what “airplane”, “lighter”, and “tool” are.

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shottymcb 12 points 2 years ago

I have this with the Spanish translation of toes. Dedos de los pies. The literal translation would be fingers of the foot.

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FrozenHandle 11 points 2 years ago

In Japanese a thermos bottle is called 魔法瓶/Mahoubin, which literally translated means magic bottle.

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tigeruppercut 6 points 2 years ago

They love their magic stuff in Japan. They call velcro "magic tape".

One of my favorites from Japanese is that they call mons pubis the "shame/embarassed hill" (恥丘), because of course they have to be weird about it.

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Odd_so_Star_so_Odd 4 points 2 years ago

It's 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.

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toynbee 2 points 2 years ago

It seems like tape is more magical than Velcro.

edit: s/that/than/

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