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over a year ago
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Tell me something fascinating about language.
Any language you speak.
AND/OR
Tell me something in another language (not English) that you’ve learned over your years on earth! X |
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"If you buy an ice cream cone in Spain, ask for a cono and not a coño!"
And in Latin America, don't COGER un autobús/taxi and poor girls called Conchita. Or CONCHA 
And the lollipop Chupa-Chupa 
Me encanta a la lengua española 
Wij spreken een betje nederlands |
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over a year ago
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I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!! |
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"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!"
And don't say "Ich bin heiss" either |
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oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh, und ich geh' zum Artzt und ich sag' zu ihm, mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh!
... was a song I learned in primary school and is the most irritating earworm |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?"
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!"
I know kalt I remember that. And can still count to 100 in German but that’s easy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh, und ich geh' zum Artzt und ich sag' zu ihm, mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh!
... was a song I learned in primary school and is the most irritating earworm"
How much autocorrect was in that!! |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)"
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea' |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea' "
I've never studied modern Greek so I have no clue!
I have studied ancient Greek and got as far as "that first bit's probably the same" |
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"oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh, und ich geh' zum Artzt und ich sag' zu ihm, mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh!
... was a song I learned in primary school and is the most irritating earworm"
Hallo, wie heisst du? Ich heisse Georg. Gluten Tag, Georg, ich heisse Anya. Gruss dich, Anya, und wer ist das? Das ist um.......
This is the first song we learned in German, age 11, and I can sing every word |
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"oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh, und ich geh' zum Artzt und ich sag' zu ihm, mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh!
... was a song I learned in primary school and is the most irritating earworm
How much autocorrect was in that!!"
I'm at a computer. None |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea' "
Dónde está la hospital?
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"oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut weh oh mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh, und ich geh' zum Artzt und ich sag' zu ihm, mein Kopf tut wirchlich weh!
... was a song I learned in primary school and is the most irritating earworm
Hallo, wie heisst du? Ich heisse Georg. Gluten Tag, Georg, ich heisse Anya. Gruss dich, Anya, und wer ist das? Das ist um.......
This is the first song we learned in German, age 11, and I can sing every word "
It was an Australian textbook, but the first comic was about an unfortunate boy who was just trying to eat his hamburger and was interrupted by people - a football dropped on it, a horse trying to eat it, I think there was a clunky laptop (it was the 90s ok)?
Hey! Das ist mein Hamburger! |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea'
I've never studied modern Greek so I have no clue!
I have studied ancient Greek and got as far as "that first bit's probably the same""
You can see the connection.  |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!"
It was John F Kennedy, not Eisenhower, that said "Ich bin ein Berliner" |
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For my spoken matriculation exam when I was seventeen, I had ten minutes to prepare a presentation on both gender equality and the plight of indigenous Australians. No I couldn't do it now.
(Yes the other option I had was similarly social justicey, thank you) |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea'
Dónde está la hospital?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Jeg elsker deg
F
Is this a language from Scandinavia?
It is. It means "I love you". 
F
Ich liebe dich  "
Marsha mi Luv yuh!
- that’s patois. And a reference I expect zero people in here to get   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!
It was John F Kennedy, not Eisenhower, that said "Ich bin ein Berliner""
My bad. Fake news on my behalf |
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"O andros mou eho ema ke ithiaria
This is a language from Asia?
I'm extrapolating, but I'm guessing modern Greek.
(h)o andros is the man in ancient Greek.
(And Andrea is hilarious to me as a name because it means manly)
It means 'my husband has sickness and diahorrea'
I've never studied modern Greek so I have no clue!
I have studied ancient Greek and got as far as "that first bit's probably the same"
You can see the connection. "
If I recall correctly, modern Greek is the most related to its ancient counterpart compared to any other language we know. And there are five words in Mycenaean Greek that are the same as modern Greek. One of them is honey. I don't know what the others are.
(I learned Attic Greek) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow” |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Jeg elsker deg
F
Is this a language from Scandinavia?
It is. It means "I love you".
F
Ich liebe dich
Marsha mi Luv yuh!
- that’s patois. And a reference I expect zero people in here to get "
https://youtu.be/pCiZen4qOCo
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”"
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
Morden |
"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!
It was John F Kennedy, not Eisenhower, that said "Ich bin ein Berliner"
My bad. Fake news on my behalf "
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"Ohi sashi buri
This is Japanese
What does it mean
Long time no see.
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I'm one of those people who've been exposed to a lot of different languages and knows a little bit of all of them. Not much of which would get me out of trouble |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
"Que milanesas que se dejan bisteces mis charolastras
Explícanos, por favor "
Tenemos nuestra propia version de cockney slang… se llama “caló chilango” de la ciudad de Mexico, usado en las decadas de los 50 y 60s principalmente…
Esta frase significa: “¡qué milagro que se dejan ver, amigos!”
“What a miracle to see you here my friends” |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
"Que milanesas que se dejan bisteces mis charolastras
Habla español?
(Is that correct)"
¡Yabas dabas, cuate!
I grew up with uncles raised in the 60s… loved when they spoke to me like that, it’s like the Jive scene on Airplane |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world."
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think. |
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think."
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think.
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets."
Oh I’m sure that happens. Words change their meaning over time and what was once a word for a progressive, “good” concept can be used for a quite different concept by a different group.
We seem to wonder about the same things. I hope you have more success than me in coming to any solid conclusions |
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think.
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets.
Oh I’m sure that happens. Words change their meaning over time and what was once a word for a progressive, “good” concept can be used for a quite different concept by a different group.
We seem to wonder about the same things. I hope you have more success than me in coming to any solid conclusions "
I do when things are closer to my job description |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think.
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets.
Oh I’m sure that happens. Words change their meaning over time and what was once a word for a progressive, “good” concept can be used for a quite different concept by a different group.
We seem to wonder about the same things. I hope you have more success than me in coming to any solid conclusions
I do when things are closer to my job description "
Any clues as to what that job might be? Sounds more interesting than mine |
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By *r.SJMan
over a year ago
Wellingborough |
Amo te
Is another I recall, though that being from Latin... more of which I remember than German (despite the latter potentially being more helpful?) but, a hugely interesting language providing the roots for many modern languages and adding an abundance more colour to our own. |
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think.
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets.
Oh I’m sure that happens. Words change their meaning over time and what was once a word for a progressive, “good” concept can be used for a quite different concept by a different group.
We seem to wonder about the same things. I hope you have more success than me in coming to any solid conclusions
I do when things are closer to my job description
Any clues as to what that job might be? Sounds more interesting than mine "
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By *mber81Woman
over a year ago
Lives in Preston, Eng |
Scots is used by more people than Gaelic in Scotland. Often referred to as a dialect it is actually recognised as a distinct language including as a vunerable language by UNESCO.
Even many Scots are often unaware that they are using Scots words whilst speaking English.
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"If you buy an ice cream cone in Spain, ask for a cono and not a coño!
Please explain?
Cono means cone, coño means C*nt!
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And don't forget the tilde when asking for someone's age...
Cuántos años tienes?
Sounds much better unless you address a multi-butted person.. 
Then forget about the tilde but don't stare too much |
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"I’m learning Hindi.
Hindi has the same word for yesterday and tomorrow. (kal)
In Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie wrote (from memory) “No people can be said to have a good grasp of time that have the same word for yesterday and tomorrow”
I find the different ways languages explain similar concepts fascinating. I wonder how it changes how people see the world.
I wonder the same thing - language is so integral to us (actually hard wired into us) that it must affect our perception.
Looking at this in a different way, that’s one of the things I love about Orwell’s 1984 - there the destruction and limiting of language is meant to limit people’s ability to perceive and to think.
Absolutely. I wonder similarly about modern propaganda and the way that certain words change words radically within certain political subsets.
Oh I’m sure that happens. Words change their meaning over time and what was once a word for a progressive, “good” concept can be used for a quite different concept by a different group.
We seem to wonder about the same things. I hope you have more success than me in coming to any solid conclusions
I do when things are closer to my job description
Any clues as to what that job might be? Sounds more interesting than mine
Writer/ editor"
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"Que milanesas que se dejan bisteces mis charolastras
Explícanos, por favor
Tenemos nuestra propia version de cockney slang… se llama “caló chilango” de la ciudad de Mexico, usado en las decadas de los 50 y 60s principalmente…
Esta frase significa: “¡qué milagro que se dejan ver, amigos!”
“What a miracle to see you here my friends” "
Gracias por la explicación, amiga  |
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Bonas estente e bonas stente, footra habiento nikatis poo
enkeros politikus skrewbaticus
democracia republica tenbiblitos militaria. Dr Bubakles.
Ney, porbabitus inafanteros et dubito ecomonikos Chris Waddle
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By *ildbillkidMan
over a year ago
where the road goes on forever |
"I was taught in German
Ich bin kalt means I am cold
If you say
Ich bin warm for I am warm you’ve actually said I’m a homosexual so you need to say
Mei ist warm which means my is warm!!
Or in the words of Eisenhower
Ich bin ein Berliner
He said
I am a doughnut!!"
by the way that was jfk |
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