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• sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I went to college in Alabama (southern USA) and my very country barber was mostly unintelligible but one day, mid-sentence, the words “statutory rape” very articulately came out of his mouth and I still wonder what the fuck that was all about.

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just regular barber discourse

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Talking about local republicans?

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    my barber (closet reform, but never says it because he knows he’d lose customers):

    • “these left-wing protesters, very hateful people aren’t they?”

    • “doesn’t the earths temperature fluctuate anyway?”

    (I’ve mentioned to him what the protests are about, and that we have ice record data showing unprecedented CO2+methane along with said fluctuations. He’s either partially or willfully deaf.)

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Barber talking about politics jfc. That’s why when I still went to a barber I just kept to my Donald Duck comics

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When I was a child my mother worked at night to deliver newspapers. A lot of her colleagues were Turkish and German was only spoken when it was relevant for all or explicitly for my mother and step father.

  I could often hear conversations held in Turkish interrupted with German words like “Steuererklärung” (tax declaration) or “Finanzamt” (German tax authority) but my personal highlight was when a Turkish outburst was followed by a “Du Schofseckl” which is a very local way to call someone names. Just imagine someone talking to you in a foreign language and ends with a term your grandfather used to berate stupid neighbors.

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  • RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I’m parsing that correctly, it means “you sheep’s bag”, referring to its scrotum. 😀

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The “Schof” is not drived from the German “Schaf” but from Yiddish. The older generations used it to describe someone who’s a useless idiot. E.g. when. someone fucks up something easy and obvious

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  • RidderSport@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Schofseckl is such a heavy dialect insult that my norther ass had to reread that word a couple of times to find out what it meant. Guess they integrated well, much better than I would because I’d refuse to on principle.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s fair, I learned to speak a more understandable version as I grew older. One of my half brothers and his father have a very heavy dialect. To the amusement of my sisters and me.

      Their dialect is so strong that when the car broke down while on their way to family in Hessen, my step father couldn’t properly communicate with the mechanic. We still quote parts of the conversation. It was glorious.

      Other than that I love Swabian life lessons like " ‘s läbe isch koin Schlotzer" or small odes to their treckers like "Isch d’ Berg au no so schteil, mein Fendt der schafft des alleweil!".

      But I also prefer the way you people in the North talk. At least listening :D

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe Lesbian Agenda is a noteworthy band in the Beijing post-punk scene or something?

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lesbian Agenda, now touring with their sophomore release: Theory of a Race Critic

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🤘

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• SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master’s abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish

  As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I speak a lot of English and do so with a Swedish accent. Since we're trained on British English in school and mostly exposed to American English otherwise, it tends to be a mashed up version of English too.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same here, but when I manage it, it comes out in a thick Spanish accent that I usually don’t have. 😅

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  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah the funny and notable part about it is the fact that the English word isn’t said with a Spanish accent.

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  • AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s such an immigrant thing to do. At this point my conversations with my partner almost always have English and German mixed in. But even back in my country, I’d use a lot of English because I couldn’t remember the word in my language or it was simply easier to do so in English, lol.

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• Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m in Finland and swedish is our second official language. I’ve heard groups of fennoswede teenagers all speak swedish to each other, except they will throw in properly pronounced finnish curse words (like vittu and perkele). I guess they just are more powerful

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I worked at a Chinese restaurant for some years, and my boss natively spoke Mandarin but whenever he was muttering to himself about something or another he would always cuss in English. I have no idea why this should be but it was always hilarious.

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cursing in another language is less stimagtizeda

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My GG-Grandpappy from Hungary (was it Austria-Hungary when he left?) did the same thing. I only ever met him once before he passed but I distinctly remember not understanding a word he said unless he was cursing.

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  • bloor@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Similar situation in South Tyrol (an province at the border to Austria): the german-speaking minority (who is the majority in the province) primarily uses italian curse words. A theory I once read trying to explain this is that you hope that God is less likely to notice you when you curse in a different language.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And somehow they pick a latin-derived language for that? Latin being literally the language of their church if they’re not protestants?

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  • Iceblade02@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a regular Swede I will say that Finnish swear words hit differently. More oomph in them xD

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  • rucksack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m German and I also sometimes use perkele, just because it’s such an awesome word. Don’t know about my pronunciation though…

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    • Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s always the old classic video of a finnish man cursing at a bear, which has a good example of how a proper perkele is said

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tbf I also do that, but my grandma was Finnish.

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• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  its the damm lesbian agenda at it again!

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fucking monsters opening bookstores and shit!

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      NOT THE BOOKSTORES

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  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The lesbian agenda to not be a piece of meat for men.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Vast Lesbian Conspiracy to meet another girl at a softball game, move out to a cabin in the woods together, and run for city council in Portland.

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ok friend, i wasn’t being serious. also, i don’t view women as that.

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  我的头水没了。我要那个electrolytes给我的小豆脑，很constipated

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What language is this from? Is it a variant of Mandarin or another Chinese language?

    My reasons for confusion 头水：my Pinyin keyboard doesn’t even want to write this. Is this supposed to be 口水？

    小豆脑：is this some metaphor?

    ‘My saliva is gone. I want that those electrolytes give me tofu brain [very soft tofu for other people reading], very constipated’

    I’m a very confused Chinese learner.

    Edit before responding: I think I understand the metaphor now lol

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s supposed to be the quote from Tropic Thunder where Robert Downey Jr’s character is speaking Mandarin very poorly, but I couldn’t find the actual words he spoke so I just machine translated it, which I think keeps the spirit of bad translation lol.

      See if you can figure it out

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• saimen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try watching an Indian movie. They just randomly use English words in nearly every sentence.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quite a few languages use borrowed words.

    Imagine being a native Spanish speaker and listening to English media. Blah blah blah macho blah blah blah cafeteria blah blah guerrilla blah blah adobe blah blah blah El Nino.

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  • sirico@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same with Korean for a lot of new words they just adopted the English one

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    • SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I once saw a Japanese person post that if you can’t think of a word in Japanese and instead just say the English word in a really racist Japanese accent, then you’ve got about a 50% chance of being right

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  那不是普通话，那是三体人语。

  如果回答，我们就会到来。
  你的世界将被占领
  不要回答。不要回答。不要回答。

  That’s not Putonghua (Mandarin), that’s the Trisolarian Language

  If you reply, we will come.
  Your world will be conquered.
  Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer.

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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dr Ye Winjie:

    Fucking, GOOD. I want them to come.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some accents say the full 那一个, but shorten 那一 into one sound.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was amazing! Thank you for the link!

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  #HeKnows 🧡🧡🤍🤍💗💗

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  • Karl@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who

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    • Bababasti@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He

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• Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That alien is a fellow Dvorak user! (aoeu is the Dvorak equivalent of asdf)

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  • SonOfSuns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are dozens of us!! Dozens!!

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not super fluent in most other languages, but I do know “fuck” and “shit” in, like, a lot of them and can tell if you’re cussing at me.

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• rucksack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait until you find out how the Chinese say things like “uuhm”.

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  • fritobugger2017@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nigga please!

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• fritobugger2017@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What exactly is the lesbian agenda? Build better decks? Pockets on all women’s clothes? Better rates at U-Haul?

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  • phx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait, am I a lesbian?

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CARGO SKIRTS!

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  • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If there’s anything I’ve learned from my trips to Rona and this comment it’s that there’s considerable crossover between the interests of Dads and lesbians

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• LwL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.

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