Timbuktu (Timbuktu, Mali)ДЄnother synonym is j.w.d.You can also choose among some real places to express the same thing: Pusemuckel/Posemuckel in the north-west.Kenny wrote:Sorry for hijacking the thread, but what would a 'generic name' in English be for a small town in the middle of nowhere if there is one? In Hungarian we would say 'KarakГіszГ¶rcsГ¶gГ¶n' (Where is it? - ? = Hol van? - KarakГіszГ¶rcsГ¶gГ¶n.) It's the name of an actual Hungarian village. If it's an abstract thing, like a situation or something, det derre works, but I could also say det greiene (which isn't grammatically correct, as it translates to 'that dealies' instead of 'those')Д®i sГҐnn derre greie = 'a like-that that-a dealie' = a. However, when you're talking about one thing or person specifically, I'd say det/den derre (inanimate sg), han/hun derre (animate sg), or de derre (pl) Wiktionary gives the English translations 'thingamajig' and 'thingamabob'.Дings, tingest, dingsebums are all words we use up hereДЄ 'whatchamacallit' in a sentence, talking about something/someone in general would be (et) sГҐnt (et) / (en) sГҐnn (en) / (ei) sГҐnn (ei) which means '(a) like that.' In German, people used to say Dings, Dingens, Dingsbums or Dingsdibumsdi (from Ding = thing). Saaropean wrote:This word is used when you're talking about something, but you don't know what it's called. There's American 'Anytown, USA' but I think that's more like a run-of-the-mill American town rather than a town/place in the middle of fuck all.ДЄnother one I just found (attention, obscenity will follow): Bum fuck Egypt. Hungarian 'KarakГіszГ¶rcsГ¶g' mostly means the second one. Il habite Г Trifouillis-lГЁs-Oies = il habite un petit bled rural dont personne n'a jamais entendu parler.' Il habite Г PerpГЁte-lГЁs-Oies = il habite loin 'Attention, PerpГЁte-lГЁs-Oies et Trifouillis-lГЁs-Oies ne sont pas employГ©s de la mГЄme maniГЁre. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but what would a 'generic name' in English be for a small town in the middle of nowhere if there is one? In Hungarian we would say 'KarakГіszГ¶rcsГ¶gГ¶n' (Where is it? - ? = Hol van? - KarakГіszГ¶rcsГ¶gГ¶n.) It's the name of an actual Hungarian village.ДЇrench apparently uses Trifouillis-les-Oies-(sous-Cambrousse) and PerpГЁte-les-Oies/PerpГЁte-les-Ouailles, but with different meanings (quoting wordreference): Oh, also: schtroumpf (literally 'smurf') which can replace any part of a sentence basically, but I think it's a bit outdated already ('J'ai schtroumpfГ© ce schtroumpf que tes schtroumpfs ont schtroumpfГ© lГ .'). The most common ones in French would be 'truc', 'machin' (for a person 'Monsieur Machin', 'Monsieur Untel' etc.) Or a combination of the two: truc-machin. I have no idea where this word comes from and would be curious to find out. We have 'izГ©', which can be used as a filler word, too.

Truc machin bidule