Butterfly or Parking Ticket?
I found something interesting using Google Translate just now – the french word for "butterfly" ("papillon") also means "parking ticket".
WHOAT?!
I'm just imagining someone that knows limited French wandering into a traffic court in France and wondering why people are mad about being given butterflies.
Tags: butterfly, french, papillon, parking ticket
spudart said,
or dog or bow tie?
Papillon in French also means a type of dog and a bow tie.
http://www.dictionarist.com/papillon
n. (French- literal meaning "butterfly") small spaniel dog with a silky coat and ears having the form of wings of a butterfly
n. butterfly, any of a number of winged insects of the order Lepidoptera having long slender bodies and four colorful wings; parking ticket
n. bow tie, small tie which resembles a bow, necktie which resembles a butterfly
June 28, 2012 @ 2:40 pm
spudart said,
I like how "parking ticket" is simply thrown at the end of the second definition. Almost like an oh, by the way.
June 28, 2012 @ 2:41 pm
sparx said,
Yeah. It's just like "whatever, these are close enough"
The other two make sense because they're described as having butterfly-like features. It's like "parking ticket" just jumped off another page and randomly ended up here.
June 28, 2012 @ 2:50 pm
sparx said,
Kinda like a real parking ticket. Someone just stuck it right on the butterfly definition.
June 28, 2012 @ 2:51 pm
spudart said,
Do you think butterflies park in the wrong areas?
July 3, 2012 @ 3:02 pm
spudart said,
What happened to the butterfly that parked illegally? It got toad.
July 3, 2012 @ 3:02 pm
Tom said,
"It got toad!" BAHAHAHA!
Butterfly is also the same word in Spanish for homosexual
July 11, 2012 @ 12:56 pm