Chicken bumps
These folks were simply too chicken to use the Dutch word “kip”. And why the capital letters for Chicken Lovers? Sounds like dirty bird to me. Too bad, the retro design is nice. In Dutch, goose bumps are called “chicken skin”.
These folks were simply too chicken to use the Dutch word “kip”. And why the capital letters for Chicken Lovers? Sounds like dirty bird to me. Too bad, the retro design is nice. In Dutch, goose bumps are called “chicken skin”.
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April 4th, 2005 at 2:32 pm
Monday is of course gehaktday, everyone knows that. I’m giving it the bird, it gets my goose.
April 4th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
Does that make Friday (or should I say “Fryday”) “Fritjesdag”? 🙂
April 4th, 2005 at 3:16 pm
Wóensdag is gehaktdag, maandag is wasdag.
Tenminste, zo is het er bij mij ingehengst…
April 4th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
Nee, vrijdag is natuurlijk visdag..!
No, Friday is naturally Fishday..!
😉
April 4th, 2005 at 8:55 pm
Not to be a “miereneuker”, but Rene’s post is recursive Dunglish, or perhaps that was the point ;-). The word “naturally” is one of the possible translations of “natuurlijk”, but it has a different connotation (a natural as opposed to a logical consequence). The proper translation would be “of course”, and it would appear at the end of the sentence 🙂
April 4th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
I fok chickens.
April 4th, 2005 at 11:13 pm
In Chinese, “goose bump” is also refered as “chicken skin”.
雞皮疙瘩
April 5th, 2005 at 9:27 am
Hi Tian! It is also chicken skin in French (la chair de poule).
April 5th, 2005 at 9:56 am
My fiancee, who is American, always use the phrase “goose bumps”, but when I asked her if she has ever seen a featherless goose in person, she said “no”. 😉
April 5th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Reading delete’s comment reminds me of a joke that appeared on the back page (backside?) of the Dutch broadsheet NRC Handelsblad some years ago. Lubbers visits Reagan in the White House. “Which hobbies do you have?”, asks Reagan. “Well”, says Lubbers, “I f**k horses”. “Pardon”, exclaims Reagan. “Hey, you know some Dutch. Yes”, says Lubbers, “paarden”.
April 5th, 2005 at 1:30 pm
That joke is the “all your base are belong to us” of Dunglish, along with “we are all undertakers” (we zijn allemaal ondernemers).
April 5th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
oops!
April 7th, 2005 at 8:34 am
>> Hi Tian! It is also chicken skin in French (la chair de poule)
“Chair” in French of course does not mean skin but flesh, but who cares? Les cordonniers qui se fichent de leurs chaussures, ça court les couloirs du métier. Et puis ça se moque des autres.