Osram - Misnomer that means, "to poop" in Polish?

I was in my Polish "English" class today, and the Polish students were reading an article describing the importance for businesses of learning the culture of the countries to whom they export their products.

The class then laughed as the teacher mentioned something about a light bulb company called "Osram," and that it apparently means "to poop" in Polish. Thus, this particular light bulb company is not very successful in Poland.

I was wondering if this was true, and also if anyone has any more information about it?

I'll shit all over

I also remember Siku toys...

Apparently that is what someone on another site mentioned. HAH.

It sounds like 'about sh*t' but it isn't. It means to sh*t on sb or not care. Zesrałem się is shat myself, LOL

I suspect the eastern German company that makes KRAP chocholate does not export to the UK....it tasted ok tho...... i remember the story of the montego car made it the UK...didn,t sell well in certain south American countries where the word montego means...won,t go...!

One of the funniest pair of names I've seen lately was in Tallinn. They have 2 national beers, Saku and Le Coq. Saku Le Coq sounds like how a Frenchman would say it ;) ;)

I am still smiling about the nice meal i had in the FART resteraunt in Poznan....

So "osram" literally means, "I will **** all over (you/somebody/somehting)" , or, also, "I don't care" ? And the basic verb is, "osrać"?

Posrać is the perfective form and osrać imperfective

no Seanus - osrać is perfective also
the reason is if you add a preposition to a basic imperfective verb you get a perfective verb (most of the time)

słać - posłać
witać - przywitać
kopać -wykopać, zakopać, odkopać, przekopać -all perfectives

srać is imperfective

you can create an imperfective out of osrać - it would be 'osrywać' - you won't hear that word much though I guess (though simmilar words (imperfectives) can be pretty common)

Aha, thanks gumishu. Awkward stuff, this Polish grammar lark ;)

No es verdad! It was the Chevy Nova that didn't go over in Latin america. 'No va' means it doesn't run.

ah , that could be the one......possibly it didn,t sell due also to being a heap of crap , as was the montego....

The Mitsubishi Pajero never did well in spain as the word pajero is something to do with masturbation

Thats why the Toyota tossa didn,t make it to the UK i guess....??

There is a street of posh boutiques in Paris, but its name is 'Fauche'. In Hungarian 'fos' = 'sraczka' in Polish.