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Author Topic: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today  (Read 4987 times)

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2019, 10:46:23 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

Kum, a mountain in Slovenia.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2019, 03:10:09 pm »

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

Kum, a mountain in Slovenia.

A mountain? Must have been a while.

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2019, 04:54:51 pm »

dik-dik: A diminutive antelope about the size of a cat.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #34 on: April 04, 2019, 02:56:32 am »

Most Africans would pronounce that like "deek-deek" (or possibly "duhk-duhk" if they're Afrikaans I guess), so it's not actually a particularly funny penis joke.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2019, 09:08:28 am »

More Norwegian:

Bønner
1)Noun. Plural, "prayers"
2)Noun. Plural, "beans"



Yes, the phrase "Jesus hears your prayers" is also more or less "Jesus listens to your beans".

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2019, 11:28:10 am »

Some German: Ich habe einen grossen, dicken Penis.

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #37 on: April 04, 2019, 12:04:49 pm »

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #38 on: April 04, 2019, 12:36:36 pm »

Some German: Ich habe einen grossen, dicken Penis.

Accusative I presume? Idk my primary school was an underachieving shitfest.

Fuck, it is Akkusativ! Ich habe einen Fehler gemacht.
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #39 on: April 12, 2019, 04:50:10 am »

An appropriate name for a Norwegian girl: "The Dude"

"Kar" is a slang term for a man in much the same way "dude", "guy" or "fella" works in English. The suffix "-en" is the definite article for male-gender nouns, so where "kar" is "dude", "karen" is "the dude".

Karen is also, of course, a girl's name.



Other terms for men include "Fyr" (fire) and "Type" (type/kind). "Type" is also used to specifically refer to someone's boyfriend/male partner.

This leads us to the importance of including or excluding indefinite articles when asking a question... For example, "har du fyr?" (do you have fire) is used to ask if someone has a lighter for lighting a cigarette, whereas "har du en fyr?" (do you have a fire) is asking if the person happens to have a random male readily available.

Likewise, "har du type?" (do you have type) is specifically asking if the person in question has a boyfriend, and is a common question from young men in bars. "Har du en type?" (do you have a type) is asking if the person as "a type", as in do they like their men tall, dark and handsome; or if they prefer them bearded and full of potatoes.

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #40 on: April 12, 2019, 05:13:16 am »

Karl, slang? That just ain't right :P
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #41 on: April 25, 2019, 04:25:13 pm »

Useful Norwegian phrases:

1) "Faren er over" = The danger has passed.

2) "Faren er over" = The father is on top.

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #42 on: June 13, 2019, 07:28:07 am »

What's even the deal with the German double S anyway
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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #43 on: June 15, 2019, 05:36:35 am »

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Re: Languages Thread: Things that made you snakke inglés today
« Reply #44 on: June 15, 2019, 07:56:36 am »

Does it even make it's own sound

It doesn't even look like two esses. It's just bad.
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