Favourite foreign words
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Jan 2025
8:50am, 24 Jan 2025
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Muttley
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Jan 2025
12:27pm, 24 Jan 2025
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HazelnutCH
Back to German for me today: Maultaschen - mouth bags... Swabian ravioli basically. en.wikipedia.org I am having some for dinner. |
Jan 2025
7:53am, 25 Jan 2025
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MudMeanderer
I've just discovered the Dutch for baseball is honkbal (honk apparently being a term for home). I think I like that name more.
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Jan 2025
8:24am, 25 Jan 2025
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JamieKai *chameleon*
Baseball as played by geese? Love it, love everything about it 
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Jan 2025
3:28pm, 26 Jan 2025
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Garfield
@HazelnutCH fou is half right...it's male version of crazy. Folle is the female word for crazy!
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Jan 2025
8:29am, 27 Jan 2025
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HazelnutCH
@Garfield : yep - fou sounds better than folle somehow though..
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Jan 2025
9:15am, 27 Jan 2025
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Garfield
It's certainly the better known version!
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Jan 2025
10:53am, 27 Jan 2025
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NDWDave
en.wikipedia.org aka "The Grand Raid de la Réunion, also called La diagonale des fous (The Bishops'/Madmen's Diagonal) is a mountain ultramarathon race"
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Jan 2025
12:24pm, 27 Jan 2025
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jennywren
Volleyball in Welsh is pel-foli which has a nice ring to it
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About This Thread
Maintained by NDWDave
My current favourite one is mantequilla. Spanish for butter
Albondigas (meatballs in Spanish) was a previous favourite
Albondigas (meatballs in Spanish) was a previous favourite
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