Adam Sharp: THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs Slovenia 🇵🇹 In Portuguese, a rollercoaster is called montanha-russa, or “Russian mountain” vs 🇸🇮 In Slovene, a rollercoaster is more commonly known as vlakec smrti, which means “little train of death”

THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Portugal vs Slovenia 🇵🇹 In Portuguese, a rollercoaster is called montanha-russa, or “Russian mountain” vs 🇸🇮 In Slovene, a rollercoaster is more commonly known as vlakec smrti, which means “little train of death”

Little Train of Death would be a good band name. Russian Mountain would not.

That’s interesting - translates to Russian mountain in French too (les montagnes russes). I like it when all our European friends get the same memo

probably after a famous early example would be my guess

Good guess - seems the originated in St Petersburg (in French) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montagn...

Montagnes russes — Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org

In Italian too

🇫🇮 In Finnish, a rollercoaster is called vuoristorata, or "Range track" as in a mountain range.

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