Words in your language that are just silly.
 

Keeping up with the other language thread, let's list some of the silly words from our wide range of languages we've got here on SUBSIM. :up:

Dragon in Finnish is 'lohikäärme', which literally means salmonsnake (lohi/käärme, salmon/snake).

https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Jackie-Chan-WTF.jpg

kuulilennuteetunneliluuk
it means "bullets flight path tunnel hatch" and is spelled the same regardless of which end you read it from.:dead:

Erinaceous

Like a hedge hog.

Snool

A servile person.

That's a great word! Latin words are always cool. :yep:


Another Finnish silliness is 'kalakukko', which literally translates to fishcock (the male chicken).

It's very tasty though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalakukko

http://i.imgur.com/BPfUsqw.jpg Alaarm! Crash dive! Prepare for erinaceous attack!:-?

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YIPES! U-666, My avatar!! lost with all hands 2/10/44 mysteriously, but- in a postwar assessment, to HMS Fencer depthcharges- was participating in Wolfpack IGEL-at the time...actually one of Doenitz's bigger failures. Igel in German is Hedgehog!:hmmm: :shifty: :dead:

I'll take your word for it.

Flitterwochen


Fleeting week.

Ah, that reminds me of the Finnish word for Leap Day, 'karkauspäivä' which literally translates to "escape day".

'Broodje Aap' translates to Monkey Sandwich

It's to desribe one's story as an Urban myth/Legend.

That is known as a "palindrome" which is silly, because it sounds like a building.

Isn't that where Sara hangs out?:haha:

Speaking of which, the longest palindrome word is the Finnish saippuakivikauppias (=soapstone vendor). :yep:

Don't expect you meet many of those :O:

Trump...



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