Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

>Some of my fellow foreign exchange students here reacted with incredulous
>hilarity when I, for reasons better left unexplained, accidentally made
>them aware there's a single Swedish verb meaning "to pull someone's hair"
>(_lugga_). They eventually concluded that Swedes must be a very violent
>bunch to have need of a such word.
I guess we shouldn't even begin discussing why there is the verb "olla" :D
It actually means "touch something with the tip of your penis". Oh my...

Some semantical differences between English and Swedish:

ben -> bone / leg

hmmm that's all I can think of :)

And while reading Wehr's Arabic lexicon, I find great words, such as "to
carry something in your armpit"... :)