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Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by dirtnugget »

lb1lf wrote: post #184
sdiq wrote: post #132

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.

In Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport. 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 en…

There was also the case of a guy with the last name Hell (which means "bright" in German). He wanted to be part of a church in the US and they denied him

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by HorkHunter »

dullgiulio wrote: post #189
skrebbel wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The name of the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, means Monday as well iirc.

Most probably all these names just indicate market day...

Sounds plausible,

Similar to weekday names in Portuguese.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by lucideer »

sdiq wrote: post #132

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.

I feel like the worst has to be Bastardstown, Ireland.

The main spoken language in Ireland is English and the construction of the name strongly implies it was not an etymological accident.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by tzfld »

papandada wrote: post #110
mensetmanusman wrote: post #92

Why do people believe there are bad words?

Well, "bad words" may be vulgarities, profanities, or obscenities. As a layman I would say it's not the word itself but the concept which crosses some moral boundary.

That is the question after all. Why the activity/concept described by the word is considered crossing moral boundary. Moral boundary of who?

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by bostik »

lb1lf wrote: post #184
sdiq wrote: post #132

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.

In Norway, we've got a place called Hell; you pass through it on the way from the town of Trondheim to its airport. 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 en…

At least the Finns are routinely turning this to their advantage. When there is an international (tech) conference in Helsinki, those flying in to the capital may be greeted with a sponsored banner:

Welcome to HEL

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by mads »

ochrist wrote: post #179
sdiq wrote: post #132

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.

There's a town in Denmark called Middelfart ...

Never thought of what Middelfart means in english. Now i cannot unsee it.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by yabatopia »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #170
DoreenMichele wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not even funny. Maybe "My sister/friend/whomever went to Austria and I all I got was this Fucking t-shirt" would be sort of funny. But "She went to fucking and all I got was this fucking t-shirt" isn't really a good joke. There's no surprise element. There's no "gotcha." There's no epiphany of "Oh, I get it!"

That was sort of the meta joke! “All I got was this T-shirt” T-shirt’s are not funny in the first place

It's a challenge.

"My Parents really liked Fucking but all they got was this Fucking T-shirt".

Let's make it a bit darker...

"My Brother and Sister really liked Fucking but all they got was Me" T-Shirt.

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