Showing posts with label #Russian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Russian. Show all posts

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Amusing Moniker

Baby names that have funny meanings in different languages


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Na na na na na na na na Patreoooooon 


Sunday, October 15, 2017

Fool Proof Method

Portuguese sounds like Russian mixed with Spanish


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...so I can keep making fun of the Portuguese language!



Sunday, February 5, 2017

Speech Figures

Untranslateable Idioms from Around the World - Swedish Kazakh Portuguese Polish Russian Japanese Latvian Thai figures of speech


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Let's all slide shrimpwise together.


Sunday, September 11, 2016

Iberian Aid

Portuguese is just Spanish with a Russian accent


Yes it does, and here's why.


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Обригадо!


Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Sunday, January 18, 2015

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Odd Bird Out

no rooster actually says cock-a-doodle-doo

In Icelandic it's "gaggala gaggala goo." Now THAT'S funny.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Common Denominators

world map of widely-spoken languages

(Update: per thoughtful input from the comments, added Portuguese as a widely-spoken language to fill in most of the other gaps, though now I'm feeling even less poly-linguistic. Decided against doing multiple shades for countries like Morocco [French, English] to keep the map simple. Anyone know if Mandarin Chinese is widely spoken anywhere outside China?)

Sunday, December 9, 2012