Comments on: I bongo with my lingo

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 12 May 2006 14:27:53 +0000

The Afrikaans word for stapler is actually papiervampier, not ‘pampiervampier’. This appears to be a spelling mistake that was made on a BBC page and has now been copied by many other (non-Afrikaans) sites as an example of an unusual word, but you’ll find all Afrikaans-language sites use the correct form. After all, paper in Afrikaans is papier, not pampier. Another Afrikaans word for stapler is draaddrukkertjie, which means ‘little wire presser’.

By: onkar

onkar — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:49:06 +0000

saMshaya is not as close to describing risk as AshaMkA is.

By: lurker

lurker — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:55:21 +0000

I was recently introduced to the term “butter face”. As in, “Everything about her is hot butter [but her] face.” Linguistic convergent evolution?

By: Guru Gulab Khatri

Guru Gulab Khatri — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:49:44 +0000

AFAIK Chootiya means stupid,dunce,idiot something like that not perverted. Chod, Chuud(h) mean different things.

By: chut ka bhoot

chut ka bhoot — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:02:47 +0000

Never heard chutiya. If it really mean f*cker, I'm sure my grandma would've said it by now

My Asian friends use it CONSTANTLY, although they say/spell it "chooth." Googling around gets me results on chooth/choothiya as well as chut/chutiya. They also say "tatti" a lot.

I think Anna linked the Malayalee version of this a long time ago, but here's the Hindi insult page.

By: Jai Singh

Jai Singh — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:41:15 +0000

Taking this back to one of the earlier posts, I think that the most accurate translation of “nakhre” is “antics”.

DesiDudeInAustin : Great translation ! As in “Fetch me my ale, feisty wench”. Great stuff

By: technophobicgeek

technophobicgeek — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:54:52 +0000

My personal favorite from german:

schadenfreude

By: DesiDudeInAustin

DesiDudeInAustin — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 23:35:11 +0000

How about the Bollywood favotrite - "chammak challo"?

feisty wench

By: Umair Muhajir

Umair Muhajir — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:19:51 +0000

DesiDancer: karo/kijiye: that’s a good point, it’s like the French tu/vous difference (“tum” and “aap”), though there’s an added twist: “tu,” which could be really intimate (Urdu-speaking Muslims would reference Allah thus, or one might speak to one’s lover thus, but one might also refer to a servant thus). Interestingly, some of my older relatives refer to their own spouses using the formal “aap”…

By: DesiDancer

DesiDancer — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:07:06 +0000

Don't forget "jatka" either...I'm not sure what the literal English translation would be.

yeah, definitely a visual not able to be translated to English. good one, ha!