Let's start with a quote from my friend Sarah who while looking at previous posts said...
omg im cracking up!Yes! Interesting observation, Swedish: The most inappropriate language!
what it sounds like is that sweden uses a mixture of other country's curses to form their language
So most of us have heard the names Dick and Willy etc. and don't really react, but a woman reminded me of the name "Kok", which is both a first name and family name in Dutch. That reminded me of a friend who was seeing a Dutch guy with the last name of Kok. She said it was a quite appropriate name because apparently he had a big Kok.
Then that reminded me of a name my Dad mentioned a few years ago. A woman named Randy Hole. Grrrrrreat choice parents!!
I was also told...
In Swahili or the local dialect of the Meru's (Arusha, Tanzania), "sick" is a "very bad word" (I think it means "penis") and a friend of mine, who works in an orphans' home there, was stared at with disgust when she mentioned a certain girl was "sick".A woman named Ina wrote me and said she was showering today when she suddenly realized that her Dove body wash had the strangest name. In Italian dove means "where". Dove is the body wash??
Next an Australian guy who was spending some time in Scandinavia kept hearing people say the word FAN (the a pronounced like o in John) which means fuck used as an interjection, like you fell off your bike and say FAN!
He says...
To me it sounds like you are saying FUN which was curious as it was said at a time and in a way that didn't sound like someone was having FUN at all.A woman named Katrin wrote me and said...
Mies means 'man' in Finnish and 'wicked/lousy' in Swiss GermanA guy named Andrew told me...
Kaksteist kuud is Estonian for twelve months. The pronunciation is "cocks taste good". I share this in the spirit of scholarship and intellectualism. Not the fact it makes me snigger.
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