O.k., I admit it, you need to go a pretty long way over two languages to connect those two pictures thematically, but as we "dschörmans" are almost all bilingual, it should work.
The pictures show the fronts of little clothes stores in my neighbourhood.
For all those who can`t speak German - "Furze" is the imperative of the verb "furzen", which means "to fart".
I don`t blame the first shop because in north-east China it`s not really necessary to speak German at all (except maybe you work for BMW) and actually "furze" in English seems to be an alternate expression for gorse. In the UK they even name schools after it:
the meaning in german being "fart flat senior school".
Wouldn`t send my children there.......
and still wondering about why the second store gave itself this name.
An explanation might be that the Chinese owners mistranslated the character 味 (wèi) as it can have the meanings flavor, taste, fragrant or sometimes smell to choose from.
And they chose wrong......
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