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i love how same language speaking countries have different names for things
like
footpath - sidewalk
sauce - gravy (don’t like that one)
thongs - flipops
car park - parking lot
shopping centre - mall
autumn - fall
chips - fries
chips - crisps
so much fun
4d ago
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they’re so funny when you think about it
- hot air balloon : a balloon with hot air
- foot path : a path for the foot
- orange (the fruit) : orange
- toothbrush : a brush for your tooth (singular)
- fireplace : a place for fire
- dishwasher : a washer of the dishes
- loudspeaker : a loud speaker(?!)
- waterfall : water that falls!!
- earthquake : bro the earth is quaking
- hairdryer : dryer of the hair
like woahhhh, slow down with the creativity there!!! no need to go overboard!!! don’t use that noggin too hard!!
Feb 21, 2025
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Saw someone do this on another app, and thought it’d be a funny lil game/brain exercise:
Polenta
Kidney
Sandal
Clarinet
Pie
Camera
Basin
Fax
Alimony
Chlorine
please add yours!!*
*footnotes: these are in the realm of European-adjacent/English-speaking/North American colonial names, so I’d also love to see people do this with other languages/cultures!
*I find femme names are easier so bonus for neutral/masc names!
Feb 15, 2024
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in my country we don’t have a language but a dialect, the moroccan dialect or as we call it “Darija”
Since it’s a dialect i can name a few words that quite can’t be translated properly in a specific language.
- مقود : (mkawed)
Depending on the sentence it has two meanings
Either really broke / fucked up
Or awesome/cool/the best
- ( bo wedina ) بو ودينة ( translates to someone who has an ear )
However it means that someone is easily influenced or tend to follow the rumours without hearing the full story.
- اودي ( awedi )
It has no translation however it’s like an expression -> well, bruh, whatever,
Keep in mind, we have many dialects, i live in a big city so we tend to make french words arabic, for exemple :
Formaj - coming from the word Fromage (cheese)
Forcheta - coming from word Fourchette (fork)
And some of our words differ like :
coming from the word Sandales, we say Sandala (my city) and the northern people call it Chankla.
Cockroach : we call it (serak zit : صراق الزيت ) which literally translates to the oil stealer (dont ask how or when or why we just call it that haha) and in Fes city they call Boudarer ( بو دارع )
Jan 12, 2025
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I CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHEREEEEEE
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