2007-08-17 21:49:23 · 37 answers · asked by zoeksalamander 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Punta. Not sure what it means but it sounds bad. I think its Spanish.
2007-08-17 21:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by ♥c0c0puffz♥ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know if this counts, but my favorite is from a made-up foreign language.
In the book "Watership Down," though the rabbits speak in English the author gave them a few made-up words just to give the piece some flavor. My favorite one was and is "hraka," which means "rabbit droppings" but they used is as an exasperated swear word, the way we use the "S" word.
It's just a great, energetic, tension-releasing word to say when I'm frustrated: "Oh, hraka!"
2007-08-17 22:09:02 · answer #2 · answered by The Snappy Miss Pippi Von Trapp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gobsmacked and flabbergasted in English. Just because they sound exactly like the thing they mean.
Fisimatenten in German. It's a term that made its way into German from French in a time when party of Germany were occupied by French troops. Young soldiers would tell pretty girls "visitez ma tente", ie "come visit me in my tent". So, parents and chaperones who picked up on the expressin told girls not to do any "fisimatenten". Thus, it has come to mean mischief of any sort, fussing about, small wrongdoings. Excellent word.
2007-08-18 09:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Schadenfreude
is a German word meaning 'pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune'. It has been borrowed by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages.
it's pronounced shardonfroyda.
2007-08-17 21:54:06 · answer #4 · answered by dimples 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Fjaeril" (pronounced "feeayrill"), the Swedish word for a butterfly. I don't know why, but it really touches me. It makes me dream of thatched cottages and summer meadows with the sound of cicadas under deep, blue skies, with the sea glittering in the distance...
2007-08-17 21:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by Tahini Classic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Swinehund - only the Germans could put these words together as an insult - love it!
2007-08-17 21:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by budgie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Luna in Spanish
2007-08-17 21:55:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Te iubesc!(2 words,sorry),it means I love you in Romanian!
2007-08-17 21:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by black_cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liquido. Spanish for liquid pronounced as lee-kee-doh.
2007-08-17 21:55:45 · answer #9 · answered by Bri 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tak
yes in polish
polish i come to Poland every summer i love to talk in the language
2007-08-17 21:56:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deja-vu
2007-08-17 21:53:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋