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• sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just regular barber discourse

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  • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Talking about local republicans?

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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🤘

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• Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • bloor@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  #HeKnows 🧡🧡🤍🤍💗💗

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dr Ye Winjie:

    Fucking, GOOD. I want them to come.

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• 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  its the damm lesbian agenda at it again!

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fucking monsters opening bookstores and shit!

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    • 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      NOT THE BOOKSTORES

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• LwL@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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