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

Christian Thalmann scripsit:

> I don't get it.  Anybody care to explain?
"Shlong" (probably a borrowing from Yiddish) is an English colloquialism
meaning the same as "dick", and "wacht auf" is close in sound to English
"whacked off", which means "masturbated".

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