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Originally Posted by Livia

On the bright side, it's a fabulous language to use for swearing.

I had a friend who didn't pronounce her umlauts or her z's properly and as a result accidentally told a colleague that she stepped in a ***** when she meant to say puddle... dangerous, dangerous language...

My ex tells a story about how a friend had gotten two little pug dogs (der Mops, the plural would be die Moepse, which is also slang for boobs...) so that worked out quite well when asking to see the two little pugs.....

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Zee

I had a friend who didn't pronounce her umlauts or her z's properly and as a result accidentally told a colleague that she stepped in a ***** when she meant to say puddle... dangerous, dangerous language...

My ex tells a story about how a friend had gotten two little pug dogs (der Mops, the plural would be die Moepse, which is also slang for boobs...) so that worked out quite well when asking to see the two little pugs.....

Blurted out laughing... I will never look at puddles quite the same.

[fingers]

Originally Posted by Zee

I had a friend who didn't pronounce her umlauts or her z's properly and as a result accidentally told a colleague that she stepped in a ***** when she meant to say puddle... dangerous, dangerous language...

My ex tells a story about how a friend had gotten two little pug dogs (der Mops, the plural would be die Moepse, which is also slang for boobs...) so that worked out quite well when asking to see the two little pugs.....

Quite understandable, since

Pfütze {f}

Is one translation for puddle!