Saw a bilingual slippery-when-wet sign yesterday (but no bilingual children…cc: Department of Education).
It said,
“¡Resbaloso!”
And some other stuff.
Anyway, the sight of “¡Resbaloso!” reminded me what a funny word “slippery” is and made me wonder whether other languages have similarly comical words for the tractionless phenomenon.
You may be the judge.
Per Google Translate:
French: glissant
German: rutschig
Chinese: Huá
Dutch: glibberig
Hawaiian: pahee
Hmong: nplab
Icelandic: hált
Irish: sleamhain
Italian: sdrucciolevole (image a chef yelling this to an about-to-ruin-dinner waiter)
Luxembourgish: rutscheg (this isn’t that funny but “Luxembourgish” is)
Maori: pahekeheke
Uzbek: sirg’anchiq
Slovenian: spolzka
Portuguese: escorregadio
Samoan: maseesee
