c/linguistics_humor · by skedye@lemmy.world · 263dWhen you forgot “蛋” also meant something else… NSFW…you got Papa Smurf yelling “我的蛋爆炸了！” (MY EGG/TESTICLES EXPLODED!) 12 points · 8 comments · view on lemmy.world
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JASN_DE@feddit.org · 8 pts · 263d
The original material contains what, 100 males to 1 female? No wonder...
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 263d
Relevant Donnie Darko on Smurfs scene. (NSFW subject/language)
brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 263d
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 · 4 pts · 259d
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 260d
Probably why you never really use 蛋 alone. It's always 鸡蛋 or 蛋蛋 in my experience (one of the few funny expressions my kids learnt when we lived over there :,D )
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 263d
What does it mean without the 蛋 ?
skedye@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 263d
“My […] exploded!” the point isn't with or without the 蛋, but that 蛋 have multiple meanings: egg → testicles
pseudo@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 263d
Ok. I get it know. Thank you for explaining.
skedye@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 263d
also: this is from the end of The Easter Smurf
it seems the translator misunderstood the last line as "mine exploded!"