Yup, it's very common across languages. However it seems that, in Chinese, the metaphor (testicles) took over as the main meaning, so it's what you get unless you specify "fowl eggs".
Probably why you never really use 蛋 alone. It's always 鸡蛋 or 蛋蛋 in my experience (one of the few funny expressions my kids learnt when we lived over there :,D )
The original material contains what, 100 males to 1 female? No wonder...
Relevant Donnie Darko on Smurfs scene. (NSFW subject/language)
Would work in German as well. Ei is colloquial used for testicle. And for a lot of other languages too, I believe.
Yup, it's very common across languages. However it seems that, in Chinese, the metaphor (testicles) took over as the main meaning, so it's what you get unless you specify "fowl eggs".
What does it mean without the 蛋 ?
“My […] exploded!” the point isn't with or without the 蛋, but that 蛋 have multiple meanings: egg → testicles
Ok. I get it know. Thank you for explaining.
Probably why you never really use 蛋 alone. It's always 鸡蛋 or 蛋蛋 in my experience (one of the few funny expressions my kids learnt when we lived over there :,D )
also: this is from the end of The Easter Smurf
it seems the translator misunderstood the last line as "mine exploded!"