Time to refresh your “Barely Scraping By in Italian” phrase books. The Atlantic Wire has compiled a list of translations of the verb form of Google – as in “to google” something – in dozens of different languages. Did you know that in Russian, when somebody doesn’t know the answer to a basic question they tell the question asker to “gugleet” it? Or when a Slovenian person wants to dig up dirt on a co-worker, they “proguglati” them. If you want to seduce a tech-savvy Francophile, try this sexy, yet respectful, pick up line: “Je vous googlez.”
Learning these translations is imperative for the world traveler in the 21st century; it’s one of those basic phrases you need to know like, “How much does this cost?” and, “Where is the train station?” Next time you visit a foreign country and ask someone where to find a toilet, you need be ready when they say, “Just menggoogle it, you stupid tourist.”
See the whole list on The Atlantic Wire.
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Michael Kolberg is The Sprawl Editor at Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter for jokes @mikeykolberg.
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