What I have learned today:

[puddingcat]

Splatnosti - Czech for Maturity.

Podpis = Polish for Signature.

Please, someone, tell me some English words are just as entertaining in other languages?

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[ulaidhan.livejournal.com]

Not really answering the question, but... having been reading a little Chinese mythology, I've been struggling at times with how much some of it clashes with English slang.

There are a lot of alien notions in it anyway, but I kept finding myself broken out of my consideration of what on Earth a bird with the face of a sparrow, the body of a goose, and the back of a turtle might possibly look like (let alone fly!) by the unintentional double entrendres.

Some of it just sounds odd - Gonggong, the prince of princes, sounds a little silly to Western ears. But he can't hope to compete with people called Dong, or kings rejoicing in the tile of Wang.

The most startling figure I've encountered thus far is unfortunately one of the most august of all: the Dragon King - Long Wang.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes! I discovered the Long Wangs while reading around the Journey to the West :)