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Chinese is incredible for this
airplane is flying machine, your cell phone is your hand machine, assassin is kill hand, computer is electric brain
40 0 ReplyGerman has "hand shoes" (gloves) and "shield toads" (turtles)
24 0 Replythe Japanese word for socks is "undershoes"
13 0 ReplyMakes sense, English has underpants and undershirts
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"Sick car" (ambulance)
KRANKENWAGEN
13 0 Replyhell yes I knew this one and forgot
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And "flying thing" for plane.
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Japanese has "kubi" (neck), "tekubi" (wrist, literally "hand neck"), "ashikubi" (ankle, literally "leg neck") and "chikubi" (nipple, literally "breast neck")
22 0 Replyhungarian calls the foot the leg-head...
15 0 ReplyThink on your feet!
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Electric brain sounds rad as fuck.
To be fair I guess to compute something (hence the name computer) is brain related, not as bad ass tho
16 0 Replyalso movies are literally called electric shadows in mandarin, which goes hard
Death to America
10 0 ReplyIn Poland, before computers became much more widespread, they were called "Electron Brains" (Mózg Elektronowy). Nowadays they are just computers.
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Germans calling gloves "hand-shoes" will never not be funny to me. Similarly, they have so many literal names for things. Suicide is self-muder, airplane is fly-thing, gums are tooth-meat.
German's my second language, and just the other day I heard a new term while playing a game that was so literal I didn't need a dictionary. I wish I could remember what it was.
16 0 ReplyOh I don't like tooth meat at all
13 0 ReplySwedish is exactly the same for the examples you brought upp, but we share a lot with german so its checks out i guess..
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