• southsamurai
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    13 hours ago

    Man, it’s a trip how languages can look like they mean something, but don’t.

    Puto bumbong is not what I would have expected those words would mean.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      The German word for turkey is Pute (or Truthahn, there’s almost always a synonym for basically anything, but that’s used slightly less with cold cuts and more with the bird itself) and I work somewhere where I have to ask whether something is with ham or turkey like 20x a day. Every time, but especially when speaking to a Spanish speaker, I worry that I’m going to mispronounce it.

      I can switch to Putenbrust, but that doesn’t help my brain from shouting “slut tit” at me every time I say it.

      • Plum@lemmy.worldOPM
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        6 hours ago

        This is my new favorite word in German. Putenbrust really rolls off the tongue.

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        29 minutes ago

        It literally means everything. You can just puto the word into any sentence and it will mean something that makes sense.

        I had no clue it was that common a word