Foreign words that make you go *fnarr*

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Da Big Guy
I work for a personal product company, one of our goals was for a japanese skin cream which had to be "luxurious and creamy" or something like that. The Japanese translation was "Shitori"
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Garfield
Dorking has always made me laugh!;)
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DeeGee
The imperfect participle of "Eat" in German is aß - which is pronounced arse.
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Maclennane
Today I have driven past arsy, punchy and dour. I could have seen the same in a rough boozer.
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she ran for cake
wanken - to vacilliate in German
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superflyguy
'Wankum' is a place in Germany always chuckle when I drive past is
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8:14am, 3 Nov 2016
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Icelandic Trigirl
kaka = cake in Icelandic; but is pronounced the same as cacca = poo in Italian.

Much sniggering in our house. But in fairness, probably not in that many other houses.
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DeeGee
The pronunciation of the Estonian word for 12 was causing me amusement this summer while I was attuning myself to that language (forced myself to forget the lot again, of course, who'd bother with that moon-man language?)

"Kaks-teist", pronounced Cockstest.

Tallinn is a lovely city with a medieval city wall with a couple of extant guard towers, built while in the Hanseatic League. Such towers have a low-German name which means "See into the kitchen" = "Kiek in de kok"
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ChrisThePuma
"Fanny pack" always gets me (USA - Bum bag)
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