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 Message 65 of 74
20 October 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged 
RykketidThe one I find the funniest and I hope not to hurt anyone's feelings, is that there is a sexual practice that we call spagnola and in Spain they call it cubana. No idea of how it is called in Cuba :-P[/QUOTE wrote:

We use the phrase "**** turca" (Turkish ****) for that particular practice (asterisks used to hide offending words).

We use the phrase "**** turca" (Turkish ****) for that particular practice (asterisks used to hide offending words).
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 Message 66 of 74
21 October 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged 
Ok. I'm gonna bite. What exactly is this practise?
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 Message 67 of 74
21 October 2012 at 12:32am | IP Logged 
explanation
lol this is awkward.

They even made a diagram...

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 Message 68 of 74
21 October 2012 at 12:54am | IP Logged 
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Sources: not completely reliable (Wikipedia and very awkward conversations with strangers over IRC).
(sic :)

Edited by mrwarper on 21 October 2012 at 12:56am
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 Message 69 of 74
21 October 2012 at 1:06am | IP Logged 
mrwarper wrote:
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Source: not completely reliable (Wikipedia and very awkward conversations with strangers over IRC).


I don't know who actually came up with these things up. I heard about all this for the first time in this Spanish thread on WordReference, where some people confirmed some of the terms, but never heard of the others, or said they weren't widely used.

Maybe this is some kind of an ongoing joke. The Danish wikipedia, for example, has the following list, which surpasses in quantity even the German one:
Samlejestillinger. It's on the bottom of the article. There's even Esperanto: "er stimulering af penis mellem fødderne." And this one if my favorite: "Latin er smssex med fremmedord." Sexting with foreign words??? :))

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 Message 70 of 74
21 October 2012 at 7:54am | IP Logged 
We are very straight forward in Norway. I have never heard a specific word- much less a nationality used
about this. Not that it is a topic which would naturally pop up in any conversation I might have :-)

Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 21 October 2012 at 10:18am
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 Message 71 of 74
21 October 2012 at 1:53pm | IP Logged 
espejismo wrote:
"hacer una española" :P

In Norwegian, "å ta en spansk en" means to cut corners, to take a shortcut, to do something slightly illegal as an
easy fix.

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 Message 72 of 74
21 October 2012 at 10:31pm | IP Logged 
espejismo wrote:
mrwarper wrote:
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Source: not completely reliable...
...
I don't know who actually came up with these...

Not really a big deal, I was just trying to wrap my head around the fact that...

Solfrid Cristin wrote:
[...]Not that it is a topic which would naturally pop up in any conversation I might have :-)

[exactly!] ...there are some people with enough free time in their hands to think of it, then engage in (admittedly) very awkward conversations with total strangers just to make that chart?!

I'm not sure if that's slightly amusing or utterly depressing :):

Well, if it's for science... ;)

Edited by mrwarper on 21 October 2012 at 10:33pm


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