The word for “ one ” in Burmese is “ tit . ” The word for “ eight ” is “ shitt . ” This exemplify a concept that does n’t have a name yet – but it should .
I was accept lunch with my folk the other day and there was a quiet in the conversation . When we remarked on it , my father wear out in . My father is one of those exhaustively terrible people who grew up verbalise multiple terminology and , in adulthood , has the ability to “ just pick up ” languages as he travels . One of the languages he grew up speaking was Dutch , so he fuck it very well . He mention that the give-and-take “ lull ” – or rather the word “ lul ” – meant something dingy in Dutch , but would n’t tell us what it intend . ( It means “ dick . ” Google Translate : one . Parental concern : zero . )
English speakers get a lot of fun out of the fact that the German Bible for “ trip ” is “ fahrt . ” We have a raft of fun with the name “ Phuket . ” And , no doubt , we bring home the bacon amusement to many people across the world , who find to have dirty words that vocalise like devoid English word .
So far , there does n’t seem to be a name for these words . I ’d like to propose , “ sordophone . ” It ’s like homophone – a word that ’s pronounce like another word but has a different meaning – but let in a version of the Latin password “ sordes , ” which means “ filth , obscenity , or squalor . ” Basically , it means “ smutty sounding . ”
What do you think ? And do you have any favorite sordophones ?
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