You can't beat this
Excerpt from a verb-blog I follow:
Going Dutch Last year, the Onze Taal Dutch language association threw open the choice of its Word of the Year to internet voters. The association's members were perhaps disconcerted by the choice of swaffelen, a slangy Dutch term that means to deliberately tap male genitalia against an object. At any rate, this ( Read more... )
Going Dutch Last year, the Onze Taal Dutch language association threw open the choice of its Word of the Year to internet voters. The association's members were perhaps disconcerted by the choice of swaffelen, a slangy Dutch term that means to deliberately tap male genitalia against an object. At any rate, this ( Read more... )
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They should have let the Dutch people pick their own WotY again, because swaffelen is a WAY cooler word than- do I even dare say this boring word?- twitteren.
Are you a language nerd? I am.
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could really cause confusion in the morning when she thinks you're asking for waffles
i love how languages have so many quirks in them. i got some book once about all sorts of funny words like this that exist only in a given language and it just makes you wonder what those people are up to!
and yes twitteren is so lamenkind (i just made up a word!)
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