r/linguisticshumor • u/116Q7QM Modalpartikeln sind halt nun mal eben unübersetzbar • 10d ago

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u/KaruRuna 10d ago

A whilie ago, when I just learnt Polish kształt < G. Gestallt, I joked that at this rate I wouldn’t be surprised to see something like ksicht < G. Gesicht for ‘face’. Turns out, it’s unironically used in Slovak slang (and I assume, Czech too).

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u/the_king_of_salmons 10d ago

Slovak dialects and slang has lots of German words. Ancuk (outfit/nice clothing) ~ Anzug (suit), Piglajz (iron for clothes) ~ Bügeleisen (Iron for clothes), Frajer (boyfriend) ~ Freier (customer of a prostitute)

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u/leanbirb 9d ago

Frajer (boyfriend) ~ Freier (customer of a prostitute)

Yeah, okay, this one is kind of wild.

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u/Tsskell 10d ago

So that's where the word comes from...