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Author Topic: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today  (Read 5507 times)

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2019, 03:34:52 am »

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2019, 10:22:18 am »

Re: diminutives: Finnish loves 'em, most common being "-nen". E.g. kirja ("book"), kirjanen ("booklet"). Even many surnames are of the form [random nature word]-nen such as Virtanen, ("stream-ling") Jokinen, ("river-ling") or Mäkinen ("hill-ling"). However, if you want a diminutive of a first name, you'll probably use "pikku-", e.g. "Pikku-Scriver". However, if you use a "pikku-" first name of anyone except a child, except to be punched in the face, hard.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2019, 11:23:10 am »

Especially in Norway, where "Pikk" is slang for penis.

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2019, 03:45:02 pm »

pls tell me pikachu is called pikku-chu in finnish
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2019, 05:06:30 pm »

Here in Brazil we use "Pica/Pika" as slang for penis too.
God I hate it.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2019, 05:45:12 pm »

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2019, 05:50:58 pm »

Somebody needs to explain this image then...

Maybe pikachu is ASKING when he says "Pika pika"... Hmm....
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« Reply #22 on: April 01, 2019, 06:18:58 pm »

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #23 on: April 01, 2019, 06:28:47 pm »

I dunno Drags. It's not the first time Pikachu has done this...

I mean It isn't like the franchise is blind to this either.


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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #24 on: April 01, 2019, 10:58:29 pm »

Stop!
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #25 on: April 01, 2019, 11:12:33 pm »

I dunno Drags. It's not the first time Pikachu has done this...

I mean It isn't like the franchise is blind to this either.




omg lol! XD

edit: top of the page now after magistrum pleaded to stop, heh. XD
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2019, 12:47:17 am »

I'm terribly sorry-- I just.. I could not help myself.

The meme demanded it.
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« Reply #27 on: April 03, 2019, 09:11:55 am »

I dunno Drags. It's not the first time Pikachu has done this...

I mean It isn't like the franchise is blind to this either.

Aren't most of the Pokemon names puns/dumb jokes/references to things? I think most of the toxic pokemon are just poop and fart jokes.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2019, 10:25:54 am »

They're all jokes and puns in English anyway, but no toilet humor jokes that I recall.  Trubbish and garbodor are trash pokemon with trash pun names, but they're the worst I can think of.  Except maybe stunky, which is a skunk pokemon and gave me a legitimate chuckle in Pokemon Go when I found out that I had to collect "stunky candy" to evolve it.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2019, 10:29:23 am »

Well, there is of course stuff like the poison-types that mean something when spelled backwards, like how Arbok is "Kobra" backwards and Muk is
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