# Favourite word or word combination.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189 "2007-08-20T00:19:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189/61 "2007-08-26T18:00:29Z")

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German words are funny. We were on a family trip to Germany in 1983, and my brother and I (we were 12 and 10, respectively) noticed an elevator button that, when you pushed it, would light up with the inscrutable, hilarious words:

**AUFZUG FAHRT**

I assume it means something like “the elevator’s coming” or “today Poland,” but we couldn’t stop saying it for weeks. “Aufzug fahrt! Aufzug fahrt!”

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**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189/62 "2007-08-26T23:23:15Z")

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Effluvia  
Uvula  
argle bargle  
nattering nabobs  
Beetabega fajita on a pita

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**Author:** ![mikeargo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mikeargo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikeargo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189/63 "2007-08-26T23:41:05Z")

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Concupiscence  
Epistemology

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189/64 "2007-08-26T23:52:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Surly Chick]  
The German word for nurse - Krankenschwester. It makes me laugh for some reason. I’m easily amused.  
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I’ll see your Krankenschwester and raise you a [Gummikrankenschwester](http://www.lovershop.de/images/products/lat_3059.JPG).

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-word-or-word-combination/416189/65 "2007-08-27T10:10:14Z")

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[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]  
I’ll see your Krankenschwester and raise you a [Gummikrankenschwester](http://www.lovershop.de/images/products/lat_3059.JPG).  
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I’m at work. I clicked that, and instantly afterwards but before the page loaded, my brain informed me what “Gummi” means. Rubber. Nurse. Rubber nurse. Oh sh\*t. I also then saw the URL of the page that was about to appear. :smack:

Fortunately it’s pretty SFW as far as rubber nurses go… 😛

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