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I love when things are named exactly what they do
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Chinese is incredible for this
airplane is flying machine, your cell phone is your hand machine, assassin is kill hand, computer is electric brain
German has "hand shoes" (gloves) and "shield toads" (turtles)
the Japanese word for socks is "undershoes"
Makes sense, English has underpants and undershirts
"Sick car" (ambulance)
KRANKENWAGEN
hell yes I knew this one and forgot
And "flying thing" for plane.
Japanese has "kubi" (neck), "tekubi" (wrist, literally "hand neck"), "ashikubi" (ankle, literally "leg neck") and "chikubi" (nipple, literally "breast neck")
hungarian calls the foot the leg-head...
Think on your feet!
Electric brain sounds rad as fuck.
To be fair I guess to compute something (hence the name computer) is brain related, not as bad ass tho
also movies are literally called electric shadows in mandarin, which goes hard
Death to America
In Poland, before computers became much more widespread, they were called "Electron Brains" (Mózg Elektronowy). Nowadays they are just computers.
Germans calling gloves "hand-shoes" will never not be funny to me. Similarly, they have so many literal names for things. Suicide is self-muder, airplane is fly-thing, gums are tooth-meat.
German's my second language, and just the other day I heard a new term while playing a game that was so literal I didn't need a dictionary. I wish I could remember what it was.
Oh I don't like tooth meat at all
Swedish is exactly the same for the examples you brought upp, but we share a lot with german so its checks out i guess..