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

Christian schrieb:

>--- 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...)
"Schlong" is also slang for "penis" (via Yiddish from the German, you
guessed it, "snake"). I'd guess "wacht auf" sounds to the uninitiated
like "wacked off", a colloquial term for male masturbation. I don't
quite understand the entire jokey meaning of the sentence in toto.
"Dick" and "schlong" together seems a bit like overkill, unless we're
meant to understand "dick" as what it means in German, "thick".

Kou

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