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From a sign in Germany. Photo by Dietmar.

Learning a new language has many benefits other than just picking up new and colorful curses. New languages also give you a fresh perspective on other languages. For example, this sign in Germany would appear perfectly harmless to locals but funny to speakers of Slovene, who would recognize “kurc” as a variant of the much-beloved curse kurac. (cock)

In fact, the K-word appears in Slovenia’s greatest (and most baffling) curse: Kurc te gleda (lit. “A cock is watching you.”)

The slogan at the bottom is also a nice little kicker. Translated, it reads: “T. Cock offers you effort and safety.”

(Thanks Dietmar!)

Posted on Monday, October 1, 2007 to Slovenia

Comments

  • 1

    Anyone correct me, if I’m wrong, but as far as I know, kurAc is Serbo-Croatian while Slovene would be kurEc? :mrgreen:

         by Dietmar on October 1, 2007 at 9:15 am

  • 2

    Actually, the point about that is a bit moot. Bernard Nežmah wrote a PhD on Slovene curses and he seems to believe that kurec and kurac are pretty old words
    so neither is strictly Slovene or Serbo-Croatian.

         by Grega Fajdiga on October 1, 2007 at 9:20 am

  • 3

    A PhD on Slovene curses?? - COOL :twisted:

    Hey - in two weeks I’m going to become some sort of linguist what kinds of questions do you expect? ;-) :mrgreen:

         by Dietmar on October 1, 2007 at 9:28 am

  • 4

    I remember watching a game Yugoslavia-Germany. Everytime a player named Kurtz would get the ball, the TVspeaker would say:
    ‘Lopta do Kurca…’
    :D

         by Viktor on October 1, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  • 5

    There is also www.korecgroup.com

         by Mark on October 1, 2007 at 5:38 pm

  • 6

    KurEc is a new word for kurjač (heater guy). KurAc is a “bad” word for male sex organ. That’s from the latest slovene dictonary.

         by mitja on October 3, 2007 at 12:55 am

  • 7

    I think that ‘kurec’ is male version of ‘kura’ (like kuna/kunec, žaba/žabec, …). I think this is the origin for using it for penis (same as in English actually). I don’t know where is the origin of that. Kurc is then a variant of kurec.

    KurAc is of course Croatian/Serbian, but used a lot in Slovene (kroatizem/srbizem).

         by Nik on October 7, 2007 at 10:39 pm

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