Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by azalemeth on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:33PM (#27043169)

I have a very good friend from Flanders. His partner is from wallonia. He told me that the word 'poopen' is nl slang in one community for 'to have sex with' and 'to defecate' in the other. This caused much hilarity.

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by markvdb on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:05PM (#27043466)

"Poepen" is nl_nl for "to defecate", and nl_be for "to have sexual intercourse".

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by tomc1985 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:52PM (#27044778)

That reminds me of "chingar" in Spanish... Mexico/Argentina it means to have sex with, in Chile it means to change

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Re:Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border by mjgs on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:31PM (#27045075)

I’ve noticed a lot of “oddities” between languages of neighbouring countries.

I theorise that neighbouring countries, especially those that fought a lot in the past evolve these odd language-language meaning issues. Some folks just start using a word from the neighbour country’s language, but use it in their language with a totally different meaning, often chosen to be hilariously different. Then if it turns into a sort of meme, eventually it ends up in the language.

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