SRL Archive - NOTA

This is a game.
The rules are simple: Post something funny about your language (Might be easier for those of us that isn't from a English speaking country).

I'll start by posting a few:
- In the Norwegian language, "Gift" can mean either Married or Poison, so being married here in Norway is literally killing ;)

- In the Norwegian language we have approx 10 ways of saying "I"; "e", "eg", "æ", "æg", "je", "jæ", "jæi", "jeg", "i", "ej". Probably even more. It all depends on what dialect you speak.

- In one of the dialects here in Norway they use "j" a lot. And by a lot I mean in around 50% of the words. The sentence "Æ så æin mannj med æin hannjhonj og ettj spannj folljt med vannj." is the same as "Jeg så en mann med en hannhund og et spann fult med vann." and is translated to "I saw a man with a male dog and a bucket filled with water." Personally I have problems understanding those who speak like that…

Now post something funny about your language! :)

Homonyms/Homophones.

They are like banana-phones only.. not cool.

England and America are butchering English to the point where simple grammatical normalities are often wrong in common peoples usage, ie your and you're or its and it's.

Lul (urban way of saying lol!) means dick in dutch.

kok = chef in dutch
Look at this:
Sparklings - Sparkings - Sparings - Springs - Sprigs - Spigs - Sigs - Sis - S S
All of those (except S S) are actual English words!

Read "The Funny side of English" by O. Abootty, it's filled with stuff like this.

Good job everyone :P
I love them :D

Hvor = Where in Norwegian. Try saying it out loud (In English).

Perkele.

Ehm.. Finnish word.. Famous one :D
~Home ( P.S I didn't get the of this game )

Well in english, you chop down a tree, then you chop up the tree…

You can sit down, sit up, stand down and stand up!

You're from Norway, Zyt3x?

Ät up maten.

Eat your food. However the word for word translation would be : eat up your food.

We have quite a few Dutch names that are translated into 'penis' in English.
The most commonly used ones are 'Cock' or 'de Cock' and 'Dick' as a first name. Quite funny when you arrive in an English speaking country; "Hi, I'm Dick de Cock!" :P

My old math's teacher's name is Dick Baksteen, which translates to Dick Brick. Get it? :P

From: Death-Magnetic
You're from Norway, Zyt3x?

"Location: Stavanger, Norway", Yup :)

Dr D. Dervish: "Spis opp maten" (Eat up the food) is another example; it is also translated to "Eat your food"

cause i'm canadian i have a gr 9 level of french :p
bon bon (meaning candy) literally translates to good good :/

From: Zyt3x
"Location: Stavanger, Norway", Yup :)

Skjønte egentlig det :) Måtte bare være helt sikker på at det var sant :D
Har du vært på forumet lenge?

From: Death-Magnetic
Skjønte egentlig det :) Måtte bare være helt sikker på at det var sant :D
Har du vært på forumet lenge?

Sen Januari 2007 har han varit det.

[/Suedi]

Muna can mean either dick (in spoken language), or an egg. Offering someone an egg does not raise amusement in most of the ways to say it.

From: Dr D. Dervish
Sen Januari 2007 har han varit det.

[/Suedi]

Jeg vet, men tenkte mest på hvor lenge han har vært aktiv på forumet eller om han i det hele tatt er det. ;)

EDIT: Forresten, er du Svensk? Hvis du er det, hvorfor står det da at du er fra Frankrike, Paris?

From: Death-Magnetic
Skjønte egentlig det :) Måtte bare være helt sikker på at det var sant :D
Har du vært på forumet lenge?

Så du ER norsk :D
heh, hvor mange er det av oss nå..? Meg, deg, Evil Chicken…

EDIT: Jeg har vert aktiv helt siden jeg registrerte meg her :) Kansje DDD er på ferie eller noe?

And back to English
Today I found out that there is a place in Norway that's named "Hell", which translates to "Luck" (there is a place named "Paradis" here too by the way). In "hell" there is a famous building with a sign on it that says "Gods expedition" and translates to "Goods dispatch" (or something… I'm not quite sure).

"Where in Hell are we?"
"You're at the Gods Expedition, ma'am"

From: Zyt3x
Så du ER norsk :D
heh, hvor mange er det av oss nå..? Meg, deg, Evil Chicken…

EDIT: Jeg har vert aktiv helt siden jeg registrerte meg her :) Kansje DDD er på ferie eller noe?

Hvem er DDD? :p

DDD = Dr D. Dervish :)
Lets get on-topic now, and leave the off-topic to pms? ;)

From: Zyt3x
DDD = Dr D. Dervish :)
Lets get on-topic now, and leave the off-topic to pms? ;)

Ok.

Sure ;)

Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog.

Boom. English has win palindromes.

From: Tim0suprem0
Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog.

Boom. English has win palindromes.

I love those! :P
Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.

It sounds great. It is really funny. It is very interesting. I really like it. It is liked by any at a first glance only.

Not from the country I'm from, but the county/town. We have pretty much a slang word for everything.

Peng = good looking
Butters = Ugly
Wagwan = Hello
What's gwarning = what's up?

From: Tim0suprem0
Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog.

Boom. English has win palindromes.

Saippuakivikauppias.
The longest known word that's a palindrome and actually means something :p
It means soapsalesman.

In estonian "12 months" is "kaksteist kuut" :p say it out loud and lawl.
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"Fuck you" is "Haista vittu", which means "Smell a vagina", which to me doesn't sound very offensive in english :p