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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Gork@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is either Norwegian or Danish.

    It’s true that ‘fart’ means speed in Swedish, but in this context ‘hastighet’ would be used (~‘hastiness’).

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    • nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Probably Denmark then. European route E47 goes from Germany to Sweden, E55 from Greece to Sweden. In Denmark they share the same physical road for a while.

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      • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        These signs are not Danish, not officially at least. “Fartkontrol” is a Danish word but the sign is not an official sign and in Denmark we wouldn’t split “fart” and “kontrol” into separate words.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i think we figured out last time this was posted that it’s danish.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hmm I’ve been to Sweden and I’ve seen many fart kontrol signs. I know because I took funny selfies in front of them

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      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ‘Fart’ does refer to speed occasionally, but the key here is that it’s always called ‘Hastighetskontroll’ in Swedish. Note the double ‘L’ in ‘kontroll’ and the compounding of ‘hastighet’ and ‘kontroll’.

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        then you weren’t in sweden. we dont even signpost them.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess this is where we get “haste”?

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      • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        and “fart” is where you get “fare”, as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.

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      • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’d be more accurate to say they share the same origin. Swedish and English are both part of the Germanic language family.

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    • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ‘Hastighet’ means velocity.

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  • Bort@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re never going to believe this - Image

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    • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Funny, that movie was called “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down” in English.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In Japan, they used the title “Old Man Carl’s Flying House” for Pixar’s Up.

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unbelievable

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The tagline makes it even funnier

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        As someone who only speaks English, that movie poster is clearly just using Simlish. Gjor deg klar? For rosh tid! Sui sui, haha! relationship improved

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    • cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If this bus drops under 50 MPH, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

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  • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I know this is old, but it is a bit irksome that this post is titled “Fact of the day” when it can’t even keep its facts straight about which country does what.

    Those signs aren’t from Sweden. Our traffic agency (who prints the signs) doesn’t use ‘fart’ meaning ‘speed’ - except for ‘gångfartsområde’, ‘walking speed area’, which disappointingly enough doesn’t even have the text on it - but mainly uses ‘hastighet’ meaning ‘velocity’. Other commenters in this thread have posted examples of ‘fart’ in a different meaning being used on Swedish traffic signs.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      both the E47 and E55 also don’t exist in sweden, E55 is only signposted up until køge in denmark.

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    • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hastighet

      As a native speaker of a language that’s unlike anything, I envy you folks so much. Knowing enough English and German you just look at it, and go ‘aaah, speediness’ (I guess the ‘hast’/‘hastig’ bit is the same as ‘haste’/‘hasty’ in English, and the ‘het’ is the same as ‘heit’ /~ness’/ in German).

      You wouldn’t guess the word, reading it in context is so much easier.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “fart” is colloquial swedish for speed, but the actual meaning (as used on signage) is “travel” or “fare”, like german “fahr-” words. so we have “sjöfart” (seafaring), “rymdfart” (space travel), “fartvind” (wind rushing by when moving quickly), “uppfart” (driveway) and, importantly for signs, “utfart” and “infart” (exit and entry for vehicles).

    my favorite of this is a sign nearby on a narrow road that warns about multiple exits with no sight lines.

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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    1000032418

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    • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hah, just wait until you get to the slutstation!

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      • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Every station is a slutstation when you’re with me, baby.

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    • PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah. Just let it rip.You’ll have to get used to each other’s farts eventually. Might as well get it over with right on the first date.

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      • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s less about the fart itself, more about demonstrating that you’re capable of restraint.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m blowing past that limit

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  • kfr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not the fart that kills, but the smell.

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    • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For the uninitiated: This is a Swenglish joke, a mistranslation of “It’s not the speed (fart) that kills, but the impact (smäll)”

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Always practice fartkontrol, when you go to the slutstation.

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  • TrendigOsthyvel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • bremen15@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That kind of speed is called hastighet in Swedish…

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    English: ride to art museum

    German: Fahrt zum Kunstmuseum

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  • manigordo@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d probably be pull over by the police officers everyday.

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    this post stinks

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  • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I will never not laugh at this

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?

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    • gigachad@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess you need to expect your farts being controlled over the next 2-12 km.

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    • PixTupy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s not km/h, just km. So maybe from km 2 to km 12 on this road, they are “controlling the farts”.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    youtu.be/CixbO5wh1es

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  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    5 Farts per hour is quite a lot of propulsion, better limit that.

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  • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thor is that you?

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  • MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am only learning this now??!?!

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