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Fugging idiots. It's like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs because she quacks too much.
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Translation: "Our Town Name's Light Beer" Hell is the German word for light . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225292
I don't know anything about beer, but I've spent a minute looking this up before, so here's a surprise German lesson: ‘Hell‘ means bright . Sometimes, ‘light‘ is the correct translation (e.g. light blue is ‘hellblau‘ in German). But in this context, it means pale, as in pale lager[0]. Nothing to do with reduced alcohol content or calories. The German translation for that kind of ‘light‘ (as in ‘light beer‘) would be…
It can be used that way, but it's not the only meaning: Leicht und stark also refer to a beer's gravity[1] instead of its alcohol content per se. A Starkbier in particular is a beer with 16° on the Plato scale[2] (which does go along with more alcohol, so in a way this distinction is splitting hairs).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(alcoholic_beverage)
[2] http://8degreesplato.com/2017/05/31/so-what-is-degrees-plato...
Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.
Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.
A friend of mine was born in a place called Time on the southwest coast, and quips after just about every flight that he was born in Time and had to go through Hell to get wherever he's at.
Oh, and as a special treat for the Germans reading this - a former colleague's last name was Ficken. He did not enjoy checking into hotels in Germany.
The Fuggers were famous - perhaps even infamous - bankers.
> The village was first officially inhabited in about 1070, but local lore suggests that a sixth-century Bavarian nobleman called Focko actually founded the settlement. A map dating from 1825 used the spelling Fuking. Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking.
There's actually another village called Fugging in Lower Austria, i assume the name was chosen to keep it phonetically close to Fucking but within the linguistic boundaries of "common" village names. Also, a "Fock" is a pig in Austrian and Bavarian dialects, so "Focking" would be indicative of "pigs place" or "where the pigs are from", which hardly sounds like a desirable name for ones village.
My personal favourite is the small Devon village of Toller Porcorum, which has historically also been called "Swines Toller" and "Hog Toller".
But what I found more fascinating is that there is bus line number 666 going from Debki to Hel in Poland (Debki sounds bit like "depky" which is diminutive for depressions in Czech).
*Sound shift from fuck.
Interjection fug
Euphemistic form of fuck. quotations ▲
- 1985, Herbert A. Applebaum, Blue Chips, Brunswick Pub. Co., page 126:
It's always somethin' or other. Ah, fug it. I'm away now.
Oh fug. Whad a mess.
“Why is this door locked?” she shouts. “Oh fug!”Earlier quoted context omitted.
Turkey has bad city names even in its own language. Along the north coast, you will find a town called Çarşamba (Wednesday), which if you continue to drive for a few hours is followed by a town called Perşembe (Thursday).
The name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.
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Moreover, is it really so difficult to imagine that there are still people that don't like publicity these days?
Yeah, I just cannot comprehend what is going on in this discussion. Is this the same HN that hates Facebook for all of its privacy issues? But the people in some small village somehow forfeited their right to privacy because a few hundred years ago it was named something that now sounds funny to people in a different language? It's bizarre.