Hungary is a silly place. The bathtub is upside down then.
Comment on turtles
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoThe Hungarian word for turtles (both land and sea one) translates to “frog with a bathtub”
omgarm@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Hule@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Actually… not bathtub, more like trough.
Still upside down. But imagine you had to carry a trough on your back. Which way would you turn it?
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The German word translates to Shield Toad
lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That is fuckin badass
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Also in Dutch. It’s “schildpad”.
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
German gets too much credit for compound nouns. Dutch is really good at it as well: bromfiets, snelweg, etc.