In the US we say "cheese" for pictures. What random word does your country use to show your teeth for photos?
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Posted Mar 9, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC
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We use the German word for ant shit so it would be Ameisenscheisse.
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Is it pronounced like "cheese" at all?
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Lmfao! I hope you're serious
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I just looked it up. Oh scheisse was I wrong. My German immigrant friend when I was a bit younger literally said "shizer" for whatever reason, I never saw it spelled like that
You're at the top of the page for me and the first comment I saw. Coming to this post, I didn't think it would be a universal thing to do, I thought this was something bizarre that only anglophones did and maybe other people picked this up by saying something that sounds like "cheese" in their language. I was looking at the "cheisse" part by itself
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I had a good chuckle, thanks
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Finally years of duolingo have paid off. I can read this now
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In my town, the photographer had to tell their clients to say “cookie” so that they could smile. It made them chuckled, was also funny to witness it.
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Omelete in Sweden (same word in swedish)
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Does it still have the e at the end?
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”Omelett”
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Ameisen scheiße (ant crap)
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I love this question! I honestly never thought about what other people might say.
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I think my favorite so far is "ant shit."
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Germans are so weird. They come across as a little stuffy and straightforward, then they bust out a dry, "Ant shit," for pictures.
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Umm,we would ask people is watermelon sweet? Then we go sweet , sweet in Chinese is perfect smile shape.
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huh. I always used eggplant when in China and with relatives
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Yep, when I lived in China 茄子(qiézi - eggplant) is what everyone said for photos.
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Knickers!
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Oh hello idubbz
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I'm uncomfortable with saying that
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In Brazil we say "X", funny how it sounds like "she's" or "cheese". Also that's why you can't find a cheese burger in Brazil, you've got to look for X-burguers
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Can confirm
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“Koskit” wich translates to cow shit. Oh I sure do love Sweden
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Vafan? Jag har då aldrig sagt Ko skit när jag tar en bild
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Antingen koskiiiiit eller kamelskiiiiit
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Va? Man säger ju omelett!
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I min skola sa vi alltid kamel/koskit
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In Vietnam, it’s almost mandatory to make a chuckle noise when you smile for the camera. I find it odd but it does make me smile bigger
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Cheese, but I'm chinese so the word there is "茄子, (Qiézi)", literally meaning "eggplant"
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"Muikku" (vendace) in Finland
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In Japan they say お前はもう死んでいる (pronounced Chi-zu)
Which just means cheese.
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In Bulgaria we say "zele" which our word for cabbage.
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We sometimes say “Panty” in Puerto Rico, although i’m not sure how common it is really. Yeah, underwear.
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"koekie" which means cookie or biscuit in Dutch
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Nagymosoly! In Hungarian means big smile or basically csíz, that should be cheese
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In Russian we say "cыр" and it translates like "cheese", and because of the letter ы looks like person saying it is smiling
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Appelsin (orange) in Norway.
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It's "Kimchi" in south korea
Of course it is
What does that mean?
It’s a staple Korean side dish. Fermented cabbage. It’s served with basically every meal here.
It’s some sort of spicy cabbage I think.
It's an extremely popular dish in Korea made from spiced and fermented vegetables.
i wouldn’t expect and accept anything else.
That's cool, in the US we usually just say "cheese"