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>Spelling only? Or can we use near homophones? If the latter, I've always
>enjoyed the German 'fahrt'.
Well, to a German ear _anxious_ sounds very much like 'narrow shit', so
those fecal jokes work both ways. ;-)
In German, _bekommen_ means 'get, obtain', not 'become', so there is a joke
where a German who speaks English badly is in a British restaurant, and is
annoyed why his order takes so long. So he asks 'When will I become my
meal?' The waiter answers: 'I hope never, sir'.
>"out the window", в окно, pronounced /fak.'no/...
Except with a voiced [v]..
>People glowered at her pretty horribly while she was saying that, and my
>mother then had to explain her that the /xuj/ part in Russian is not a nice
>word ("testicle", if I remember correctly), while in Dutch it's just "good".
It's the penis, if you really need to know and it also leads to much
hilarity in Russia regarding Chinese, so _hui_ is actually transliterated
/xuej/.
I have also heard a story where Russian tourists were in France and didn't
know what kind of meat they were served, so they asked the waiter _ko-ko?_,
which is the sound a chicken makes in Russian. The waiter didn't understand
and replied _quoi-quoi?_ which is unfortunately the sound a frog makes
(/kvakva/)...
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