Re: Funny Words (don't show this email to your polyglot kids)
| From: | Jake X <starvingpoet@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 9, 2003, 22:36 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "bnathyuw" <bnathyuw@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: 09 January, 2003 04:32
Subject: Re: Funny Words (don't show this email to your polyglot kids)
> --- Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote: > Jake
> X wrote:
> > >
> > > The following is an innocent German sentence which
> > sounds outrageous to an
> > > English-speakers ears:
> > >
> > > Meine dicke Schlange wacht auf.
> >
> > Hee hee. WHat does it actually mean?
> >
>
> 'my fat snake stays awake' isn't it ?
Almost. Wakes up.
> which is itself a bit of an inuendo in my book, but
> then almost anything is . . .
Yes, I admit it. It sounds pretty sexual in either language. It makes
sense though,
that schlong, a Yiddishism meaning snake, would come into use as it did.
> bn
Jake