Bonus points for examples from English and bonus points for any personal stories.

  • Dicska@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    When saying cheers (or responding to a sneeze) we say ‘egészségedre’ (=to your health, literally meaning to your wholesomeness). The weird cluster in the middle is sz+s, which is confusingly a s + sh sound. Someone learning the language once pronounced it more like egész seggedre, which means to your whole ass.

    Then there are a bunch of words that sound like English words but they aren’t, such as our word for ravine, which is szakadék, but sounds a bit like suck a dick.