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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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 Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: DuDu Happy Tinkle Club |
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| Kurochan wrote: |
One kid I taught at the primary school had a notebook that said, "Dudu happy tinkle club" on the cover. There was also a notebook on sale at a Shenzhen U. store that said "Sodami ... gives me exquisite feeling." Well, now!
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This actually reminds me of the time I was singing "Old MacDonald" to/with some of my younger Taiwanese students (it came up in a lesson somehow or other, so I decided to teach them the song). Anyway, when I got to the part with the horse "a nay-nay here and a nay-nay there", they all busted a gut laughing. I mean, tears streaming down their faces! At the time, I had no idea what "nay-nay" means in Chinese, else I'd have skipped that line of the song altogether.  |
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Kurochan
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
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Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 4:32 am Post subject: Re: Old MacDonald |
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| What does it mean? I've never heard that before. |
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Capergirl
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:44 am Post subject: |
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nay nay = *beep*
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Capergirl
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Yeah, that's right, it means beep. 
nay nay = b*reasts |
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sojourner
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: nice, friendly, easy-going (ALL) Peoples' Republic of China
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:30 am Post subject: |
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"nay,nay" = b*reasts ? Which language ? Cantonese ? In my Chinese(Mandarin) language dictionary,a b*reast is rufang.Possibly,"nay,nay" is slang.
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Capergirl
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not fluent in Mandarin or Taiwanese, so you'd have to ask someone who is. That is just what I was told, sojourner. Based on the reactions of my (former) students, I didn't doubt it for a moment. |
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been_there
Joined: 28 Oct 2003
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Location: 127.0.0.1
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I THINK (if my dirty mind remembers correctly) that "Nai" (fourth tone) means "b.reast", at least with my drinking buddies....
COULD sound like "Neigh" |
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Freaky Deaky
Joined: 13 Feb 2003
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Location: In Jen's kitchen
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There's a restaurant in Shanghai called 'Fine Noshery - make you slobber'. I saw a girl in a shopping mall with the words 'suck my d.ick' on her tshirt.
also saw a proper government sign in Hong Kong with the words 'you are here' and an arrow pointing to the pavement. |
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Phil_b
Joined: 14 Oct 2003
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Location: Back in London
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Some of the best examples I've seen.....
The "Happening Drugstore" in Buenos Aires
"Bimbo" bread in various Spanish speaking countries.
Paraguayan Kids TV presenter wearing "F*cking Situation" t-shirt
"Bonka" Spanish Coffee
"F*ck the system" sprayed on the wall of one of the most "establishment" private schools in Asuncion
The surname "Arce"
The Britannia Pub in Asuncion do a cocktail "Orgasmo de Pitufo" which translates as "Smurf C*M", kinda blue and milky, but that's not down to a translation error, just a sick mind
of course it is not just English it happens to, those who speak Spanish would know what to think when they saw a Nova or a Pajero parked in a carpark |
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Phil_b
Joined: 14 Oct 2003
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Location: Back in London
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Of course it is not just English it happens to, those who speak Spanish would know what to think when they saw a Nova or a Pajero parked in a carpark |
roughly translate as No go and W*nker
There's also a sportswear brand advertised here as B.U.M. |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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| I saw a T-shirt in NEXT(in Doha)"I love beer' Probably not the best T-shirt to wear in a strict Islamic country |
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Celeste
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
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Location: Fukuoka City, Japan
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I saw two nice looking high school boys on the subway yesterday. Polite, well behaved, smiling....
One was wearing a winter coat that had the words "f*** the police" on the back, and the other was carrying a tote bag that read:
fudge packin'
hash smokin'
gun totin'
Mother F***a
I am sure that both of the boys think that having the 'F' word on their accessories is cool. Sort of a modern day James Dean type thing. However, someone should inform the second boy what those idioms all mean! |
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FGT
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
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Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Have you seen the label "gob London" on clothes, or is it only Turkish?
I once mimed what it meant to a shopkeeper, he was not impressed! |
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Kurochan
Joined: 01 Mar 2003
Posts: 944
Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:45 am Post subject: Oh slit! |
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"Beat the slit out of him!"
(Not a sign, but a subtitle from the HK film TIGER ON THE BEAT.) |
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Snoopy
Joined: 13 Jul 2003
Posts: 185
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject: don't do it in the park |
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| "Keep off the grass" is NO PISAR in Spanish. The French are bemused but it does not deter them from doing what comes naturally. |
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