Italian not missing a beat in making things sound like pasta.
Wait that's what bowtie pasta is named after isn't it
Should be butterfly pasta! We've been robbed!
In Italian, butterfly, bowtie and the kind of pasta are all called "farfalla". Which has come first, though?
𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉
Non ! Tokebakicitte !
the Germ-ans
Ve vill spread and multiply! No aisle can stop us!
Ok but Schmetterling doesn’t even sound worse. Just picture it in a not angry German accent
Well, "schmettern" (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. "Schmetterling" comes from the old Slavic "Schmetten", meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from "schmettern", which is a word still in use.
The "schmett" makes me think of the mess that's left if you squish one.
EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the "schmett" part means "cream," which is similar to the "butter" part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish "schmir."
Zangendeutsch: Butterfliege
What is zangendeutsch? Google isn't giving me much in the way of English answers
Tja
I said Schmierkampagne in real life yesterday.
I’m a native English speaker and Zangendeutsch is ruining me.
That's funny, in Brazilian Portuguese 'mariposa' means 'moth', and the word for 'butterfly' is 'borboleta'. TDIL.
‘borboleta’
Lol sounds like medieval siege engine name
UND KEINE EIER!
Die eier von Satan literally means Satan's eggs. It's a recipe for round cookies with hash. And no eggs.
Can't unhear the guy's accent 😂
Papillon in French
Sommerfugl (bird of summer) in Danish :)
C'est magnifique.
And Pillangó in Hungarian. I love both words.
This image is so ancient it doesn't use flags emoji.
And still uses the old meme faces.
Butterfly is a terrible name
And fish should be flowers.
Someone once told me to that words for things that are not traded across linguistic borders exhibit more linguistic diversity (as in, neighbouring countries use completely different words that share no common etymological roots etc.). Butterfly is one key example.
ผีเสื้อ in Thai translates to “shirt ghost” 🤷 it sounds very similar to the tone-deaf as “tiger ghost” which is certainly a cooler name, but nope.
Sounds like describing a moth. Are they maybe found more often than butterflies in Thailand?
We used to call then flutterbys definitely trolling
Afrikaans: skoenlapper, which translates to shoe licker.
This shit is ignorant as fuck.
I go fsck myself, have a nice day
Please go fuck thx
Papalotl in Nahuatl.
Ancient meme. Handle with caution
Plus don't pronounce 'caution' so ruff.
Mariposa gang
A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It's not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.
A very beautiful word.
Still funny since 2010s
Yep, memory leak....
蝶々 ちょうちょう chouchou in japanese (although technically the first chou means the same thing; I'm not sure if there is a real difference)
Buherfly
