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When you forgot “蛋” also meant something else… (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by skedye@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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…you got Papa Smurf yelling “我的蛋爆炸了！” (MY EGG/TESTICLES EXPLODED!)

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[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Would work in German as well. Ei is colloquial used for testicle. And for a lot of other languages too, I believe.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

And for a lot of other languages too, I believe.

Yup, it's very common across languages. However it seems that, in Chinese, the metaphor (testicles) took over as the main meaning, so it's what you get unless you specify "fowl eggs".