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== [[Film]] -- Live Action ==

* The 2002 film version of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (film)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' has this exchange:

'''Luigi''': It means "driftwood." }}

* In ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood|Don't Be A Menace]]'' Dashiki explains that her name is Swahili for "doggy-style."

* In ''[[50 First Dates]]'', after Ulla says something deep and meaningful sounding to Henry as they are saying goodbye:

'''Ulla''': Bring me back a t-shirt. }}

 

** In ''[[Discworld/Jingo|Jingo]]'', "Vindaloo" is claimed to translate to "tasteless gristle served to macho foreign idiots."

* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in Henry Beam Piper's ''[[Little Fuzzy]]''. Some of the names of alien animals and plants are... strange.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', this is one of the male draenei's jokes:

** Background info: The ''Exodar'' is the ship that the draenei took to Azeroth, which crashed on an island. He's implying that the [[Our Angels Are Different|race that created the vessel]] knew damn well that it was a piece of ([[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|pyrotherium]]) crap.