Matelotage

Funny true story, @big soft moose: In Russian, seamen are either matros (матрос) or moryak (моряк). If you do something with a moryak, then it's s moryakom (c моряком), which is pronounced almost identically to the Spanish slur for gay guys, maricón. Given that the language school I went to was military, everything we talked about was in military terms. The first time any of our instructors had cause to say c моряком to us was Mr. Vinokorov - who was the kindliest, most humble man you could ask to meet. There was a moment of silent shock since it sounded exactly like maricón, and he was the last guy in the world you would ever expect to use such a word, and then 10 minutes of uncontrolled piss-your-pants laughter. When I could finally breathe enough to explain, he just smiled and turned beet red. Poor man.