Foreign words that make you go *fnarr*

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plodding hippo
Welsh is funny as well

i always think Archfarchnad(supermarket) sound like a swear word
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leaguefreak
It's not at all rude - just silly - but the Turkish for raspberry (ahududu) somehow always sets me off laughing for ages.
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Garfield
Strawberry in German - erdbeer...peanut in German - erdnuss
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9:10am, 8 Feb 2012
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Ginnersinner
'pinkelpause'
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ChrisHB
well, that's funny in German as well, maybe funnier, so maybe it doesn't count. I always found Zigarettenpause funny.
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9:50am, 8 Feb 2012
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Maclennane
the Dutch formal second person for "you can" is "u kunt" and we drove through a town called Kumtich
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Frobester
"Shit" in Danish is "Piss".

Ironic, no? (thanks to BBC4 and various Scandie Saturday Night dramas).
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3:45pm, 8 Feb 2012
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Maclennane
whipped cream is slagroom and a trip on a boat is a vaart
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Hoaxster
Künstliche Bandscheibe!

(artificial disc in kraut)
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clairevmc
When I lived in Russia I used a medical cream for first aid (similar to Savlon) and it was a Finnish brand called Pantyson.

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