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by mixmastamyk 3013 days ago
Ha, reminds me of a juice booth/startup the other day at the tech fair named "Suja," which means dirty or obscene in Portuguese!
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My favorite example is a popular German light bulb brand, Osram, which is also known in Poland. In Polish it means roughly "I'll put my excrement [on it]" :P
While we're at it, Italian cooking appliance brand Smeg invokes something quite different in English.
"The curve" - "Kurve" in German was my favorite learning German. Osram was close though :D