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http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html

I love this list, i can't pronounce most of these words worth shit but they would make some situations easier to describe.

Posted: May 12 2009 04:02 pm

A good read, but it fails for not including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

Posted: May 12 2009 04:06 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

A good read, but it fails for not including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

We have that word, it's called LULZ. Razz

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Syd Lexia wrote:

A good read, but it fails for not including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

German seems to come up with some fine words that express negative human emotions.

Posted: May 12 2009 04:15 pm

I'm not surprised, cause the german language sounds like somebody cursing with a chicken bone lodged in his throat.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Good article, although I found the first few more useful than the last few.

Posted: May 12 2009 04:25 pm

Also, we have Bakku-Shan. It's called butterface.

Posted: May 12 2009 06:25 pm

Eddie_Hyde wrote:

I'm not surprised, cause the german language sounds like somebody cursing with a chicken bone lodged in his throat.

Yeah I always figured a german woman talking dirty to me might be alittle intimidating. Razz

Syd Lexia wrote:

Also, we have Bakku-Shan. It's called butterface.

Don't forget asinine! I'd give her face a two, her ass a nine. Razz

Posted: May 12 2009 06:59 pm

I don't know about you, but there are far cooler Portuguese words than 'Desenrascano'
It's actually 'Desenrascando', with a D before the last O, anyways.

Posted: May 12 2009 07:15 pm

Where the fuck do they speak Pascuense and Yaghan? Never heared of them before.

Posted: May 13 2009 01:36 am

We, the Polish (I can't believe I actually said that) have a great word suitable for all situations.

It's "kurwa" (pronounced koo-rwah, kinda like Koopa). What's so great about it? It has various forms depending on the situation you want to use it.

By itself, it means whore.
"Kurwa mać" implies that your mother is a whore.
"Skurwysyn" calls you a son of a whore.
"Zakurwić" means hit someone really hard and brutal, usually by holding the person by the ankle and flailing them at a wall.
"Zakurwiście" means something is really, really, really fucking awesome.
"Wkurwić" means to piss somebody off.
"O, kurwa!" means something along the lines of an "Oh shit!" of epic proportions.

Now you too can impress your friends and family by showing off some Polish!

In all seriousness, you need an universal swearword like this.

Posted: May 13 2009 01:39 am

Nekkoru wrote:

We, the Polish (I can't believe I actually said that) have a great word suitable for all situations.

It's "kurwa" (pronounced koo-rwah, kinda like Koopa). What's so great about it? It has various forms depending on the situation you want to use it.

By itself, it means whore.
"Kurwa mać" implies that your mother is a whore.
"Skurwysyn" calls you a son of a whore.
"Zakurwić" means hit someone really hard and brutal, usually by holding the person by the ankle and flailing them at a wall.
"Zakurwiście" means something is really, really, really fucking awesome.
"Wkurwić" means to piss somebody off.
"O, kurwa!" means something along the lines of an "Oh shit!" of epic proportions.

Now you too can impress your friends and family by showing off some Polish!

I just met a guy from Poland last night. Thanks

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

This is a perfect example of an article that needs an actual list at the end along with a pronunciation guide.

Posted: May 13 2009 12:56 pm

Zakurwiście!

Posted: May 13 2009 02:01 pm

Oh, right, pronounciations; I knew I forgot something...

Kurwa mać - koor-vah mać (the ć is a very soft and sharp c, sorta like a very short "cee")
Skurwysyn - Skoorvyhsyhn (your language sucks, you don't have the real "y" sound)
Zakurwić - Zahkoorvić
Zakurwiście - Zahkoorviście (the ś is a very soft and sharp S, a really short see this time. The "cie" is like that ć slapped together with an "eh" sound)
Wkurwić - Vkoorvić
O, kurwa! - Now come on...

Posted: May 13 2009 03:58 pm

Nekkoru wrote:

"Zakurwić" means hit someone really hard and brutal, usually by holding the person by the ankle and flailing them at a wall.

That's pretty cool.

Posted: May 14 2009 03:15 am

Oh, also - the thing you cover yourself with while you sleep - you call that either a blanket, or blankets, or covers. A blanket is this thin piece of cloth, while the other things imply a plural number of said coverings. I have yet to see anyone sleep under a simple blanket.

You know that cloth bag filled with feathers or wool or whatever? Yeah? We call that a [i]kołdra[i] (ko-ooh-drah). It seems that Polish is the only language that calls it that. You need a word like this.

[quote=Blackout]Nekkoru wrote:
"Zakurwić" means hit someone really hard and brutal, usually by holding the person by the ankle and flailing them at a wall.

That's pretty cool.[/quote]

Yeah, we learn this ancient art in our schools, in PE classes.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Nekkoru wrote:

Oh, also - the thing you cover yourself with while you sleep - you call that either a blanket, or blankets, or covers. A blanket is this thin piece of cloth, while the other things imply a plural number of said coverings. I have yet to see anyone sleep under a simple blanket.

You know that cloth bag filled with feathers or wool or whatever? Yeah? We call that a [i]kołdra[i] (ko-ooh-drah). It seems that Polish is the only language that calls it that. You need a word like this.

In the Midwest, we call the thick blanket we use at night a "comforter".

Posted: May 14 2009 01:26 pm

We call it that too.

When I was little, we used to call them puffs. I haven't heard anyone call one that in awhile though. I think it's one of the regional things that national television has destroyed, like referring to soda as "tonic".

But it/was a real term. Definition #10: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/puff

The layers of stuff you cover yourself with in a bed are generally referred to as either sheets, blankets, or covers. Covers is technically the only one of these terms that is correct, since you generally have both sheets and blankets in your covers. But the proper term for such covers is either bedding or bedclothes.

Posted: May 14 2009 01:27 pm

Yep, comforter here too.