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OT: Words that mean other stuff in different languages
Apparently "beer" means "bear" in Dutch...
"Gift" in German is "poison"
You know the drill... English word that when used abroad takes on a whole new meaning... see what amusing ones we can come up with
Fig mean fuck in German so Im told. Fun times when I was on holiday and we were at a restaurant and my mum offered a German friend a 'fig'
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~ Sofi ~
"And so tomorrow there will be another number for the one who had a name."
haha. nice one sofi's mom.
Rock on...
Kevin
I wanna be with you forever, and tomorrows not too late...
"Beware the fury of a patient man" ~John Dryden
well theres always america's meaning of fag vs. englands..
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
haha when we say rubber here we mean eraser for pencil
i am told however that rubber over there means condom
now i had an interesting conversation with rob thomas about how i had to go across the street and buy a rubber and it cost me like four bucks, what a rip off -
He was looking at me funny - and not until a few days later when i was telling an american friend about it did she go "clare do you know what a rubber is here?"
same day my friend was getting her picture taken with rob and she had like a massive zoom camera - and we were all like "dude look at your snazzy or spunky or something starting with s camera - which got a giant laugh from rob - which we understood later because that was an american word used for sperm, an interesting day all around!!
rob thomas...as in the matchbox twenty lead singer?if it is thats so unbelieveably cool!!
This is slightly different but dude in its original form is the term used for a camels foreskin on the males penis!
I feel so dirty.
---Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost, Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost, What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time? What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind---
haha, i call like everyone dude, that's kinda funny. haha, ya........
Rock on...
Kevin
I wanna be with you forever, and tomorrows not too late...
"Beware the fury of a patient man" ~John Dryden
Pissed and pissed... drunk / annoyed
Love how all the variations are between US and UK when we're supposed to have the same language.
Rock on du... i mean peeps 
We use pissed to mean annoyed too, sometime, only we say pissed off or pissy.
What americans refer to as the subway, we call the tube, and a subway here you just walk through.
~ Sofi ~
"And so tomorrow there will be another number for the one who had a name."
I thought it was called the underground?
---Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost, Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost, What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time? What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind---
Yep, London underground/ the tube. You can call it either.
~ Sofi ~
"And so tomorrow there will be another number for the one who had a name."
dont you call bandaids plasters or something
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
'hoe' means how in dutch 
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gotta love the differences in the us and uk. another one is 'trunk' for us is your 'boot'. Oh, and 'subs' as in a sandwich is called a 'grinder' so i'm told.
Rock on...
Kevin
I wanna be with you forever, and tomorrows not too late...
"Beware the fury of a patient man" ~John Dryden
grinders are in new england.
new yorkers eat heros.
*~katie~*
they're called hoagies :-P
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
lift / escalator / elevator / something else
If somebody could put that into a sentance that'd be great
And yes, we say plasters. Once you get into US/UK, there are too many to list.
~ Sofi ~
"And so tomorrow there will be another number for the one who had a name."
aww, whatever man, i mix 'em up.
Rock on...
Kevin
I wanna be with you forever, and tomorrows not too late...
"Beware the fury of a patient man" ~John Dryden
haha im just joshin only philadelphians call em hoagies
~SOFiA~
"you wont hear me, still you endear me, now..woo woo"
a lift to me is an elevator
a box you get into and press a button and go up and down
and escalotor is the moving stairs
a travelator is a flat escalator
lol
Travelator is one of the Transformers - the one who transforms from a humble suitcase into a twenty-three foot high tank of destruction.
Or so I presume.
"Bush" means "idiot" (or something of the sort) in Arabic.
Well, and in English now too. And French. And German.
And . ..
its pathetic how unorigional that is, upstge
I hate it when message boards become political. If you want to bash political figures, then go tell it to them and keep politics out of music boards. Otherwise keep it to yourself.
storey/floor
what is the 1st floor in the usa is the ground one in uk...isnt it?
Anna
"I owe it all to you, every good thing that I do is you"
what u call a robot actually comes from russian "to work" :p
Anna
"I owe it all to you, every good thing that I do is you"
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