Sunday 20 April 2008

It improves in translation


Arriving serendipitously at a website which gives a list of words for “gay” in a variety of languages, QB now presents the following terms to add to your Berlitz tourist dictionaries:


Puerto Rico “plumifero” - with feathers
Russian “goluboy” - light blue
Portuguese “queima-rosca” - doughnut burner
French “tapette” - flyswatter
Slovenian “toplovodar” - warm water person
Czech “bukvice” - beechnut
Luxembourgish “tatta” - aunty

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