Re: Funny Words (don't show this email to your polyglot kids)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jake X <starvingpoet@R...> wrote:
 > The following is an innocent German sentence which sounds outrageous
to an
 > English-speakers ears:
 >
 > Meine dicke Schlange wacht auf.
 >
 > For some reason, everyone I know who is immature enough to get it gets a
 > laugh.  ;)

I don't get it.  Anybody care to explain?

(I get the "dick" part, but not the phrasal meaning...)


-- Christian Thalmann

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