[Parlay44]

My Mexican friend and I joke around a lot talk a lot of shit. We get each other hysterically laughing sometimes.

He's Americanized but he doesn't know all the little funny colloquialisms. So he gets a kick when I throw some funny American saying at him.

One time I asked him how his ball and chain is doing? Meaning his wife. He didn't get it but after I explained it to him he busted out laughing.

He told me in Mexico they call women "the parking brake". I nearly pissed myself. I don't remember how to say it in Spanish.

What are some other funny terms and saying about women that you've heard? Do share.

[bacon]

Did he tell you that the word esposa translates to both wife and handcuff?

[Parlay44]

(11-19-2013 06:50 PM)bacon Wrote:  

Did he tell you that the word esposa translates to both wife and handcuff?

No but that's pretty funny though.

I know Bride is an Old English word for Cook.

[Malekhit]

Well i think Polish one is the best "Kobieta" which means "women" in english is from the word "pigsty". The word Kobieta was used in old times as a insult and nowdays it's almost the only way to say "women" in Polish language.

[BigDave]

In Russian "brak" (брак) means marriage but has a second meaning of defect.

[funkyzeit]

(11-20-2013 03:13 AM)BigDave Wrote:  

In Russian "brak" (брак) means marriage but has a second meaning of defect.

In Bosnian, "brak" just means marriage, but considering the Russian is older Slavic language than Bosnian, there was probably the same meaning in the past.

[Virtus]

Different roots. Ivan the terrible made exclusive contract with English merchants. There wasnt much divorce before. The second meaning comes from English "brake" not the Slavic root. Russian has a million words from English French or German. They're jyst well disguised and we dont think of them as foreign