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    Posted: February 14 2010 at 08:52
I remember a funny one from my youth:

He came driving in a bad car

wrongly translated into Norwegian as:

Han kom drivende i et badekar

which means:

He came drifting in a bathtub

I’m sure I can come up with something Greek as well. One very confusing thing is that the word ne means yes Confused. And when Greek people nod, they actually mean no …
He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2010 at 08:25
OK; some Italian thenWink?

The Italian word 'delusione' sounds like the English 'delusion', but means 'disappointment'. Sometimes it's funny to read people who write that album X was a delusionLOL.
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2010 at 07:31
Ok, thanks. Enough of the Dutch. Wink
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Points: 24340 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2010 at 06:21
Quite a lot indeed...
 
Bier is the Dutch word for beer. In English it is a frame on which a dead body or a coffin is carried before a funeral.
Pils is the Dutch word for lager. In English it sounds like pills.
 
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2010 at 05:10
"Slip" is the Dutch word for briefs
"Dik" or Dick" is a normal Dutch first name

A lot of Dutch - speaking members on the site, eh?
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Points: 1588 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 18:32
'Kunt' means 'can/could' in Dutch
'Nut' means 'use/benefit'


 

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Points: 15141 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 18:04
The Dutch word "pik", which is pronounced the same as the English word "Pick" is slang for penis. 
The Dutch word "die" means "that". 
The Dutch word "bil" is pronounced the same way as the English word "bill" but means "buttcheek"
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 17:55
We say 'come' in Italian, and the Spanish is 'como'.

A couple of funny false friends between Italian and Spanish are both food-related. 'Burro' means 'butter' in Italian, and 'ass' (the animal) in Spanish (a burrito would be a 'little ass/donkey'). Then, 'aceto' means 'vinegar' in Italian, while the Spanish 'aceite' means oil.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 17:51
Yeah, #1 is the same in our language (wrote even the same way as in Spanish and Italian!).

"Cum" in English is "how" in Romanian.


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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2010 at 17:49
"False friends" are words in different languages that sound alike but have totally different meanings. Do you know any funny "false friends"? I give you two examples:

1. The word "curva" in Spanish and Italian means "bend". In Polish though "kurwa" (pronounced the same way) means "whore" and is one of the worst curses (like "f**k" in English).

2. Hungarian "hülyé" means "stupid" whereas Polish "chuje" (which is pronounced almost in the same way) is also a curse and it means "cocks".

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