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Powaqoatse posted:The linked Swedish article has a followup: I love stupid Swedish news. Decent translation, although I think "brakfis" is better translated as "a crashing fart" rather than a "stinking cheese". And the sole reason I know this offhand is due to translating Joyce's letters into Swedish for the world's dumbest avant-garde play ever conceived.
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Solice Kirsk posted:But how would a man who wasn't supposed to have guns get guns?! This guy sounds like bad news all around. Hedningen posted:I love stupid Swedish news. Decent translation, although I think "brakfis" is better translated as "a crashing fart" rather than a "stinking cheese". And the sole reason I know this offhand is due to translating Joyce's letters into Swedish for the world's dumbest avant-garde play ever conceived. 
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Jan 16, 2017 21:23
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Hedningen posted:I love stupid Swedish news. Decent translation, although I think "brakfis" is better translated as "a crashing fart" rather than a "stinking cheese". And the sole reason I know this offhand is due to translating Joyce's letters into Swedish for the world's dumbest avant-garde play ever conceived. Hahahah, I'd love to read the Swedish fart letters! but yeah I read it as analogous to Danish "brandskid" (burn-fart) I had to look up English fart synonyms though, cause I completely blanked. Ended up writing "cheeser" but I guess I got autocorrected or forgot the r or something. Thanks though!
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Jan 16, 2017 21:25
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Translation aside, "Stinking Cheeser" sounds like it comes from the same journalistic school as those Ugandan anti-gay articles that talk about "Monster Whoppers" and the like.
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Jan 16, 2017 21:51
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What's the English for a level 2 fart anyway (not a shart, just a really loud/smelly fart)? I'm sure there is one, but I just can't recall any good words. Danish has like a "scale" of prut (normal) / skid (loud and/or smelly + brandskid for emphasis), and then outside of that there's all the weird phrase-based ones & the like. I mean poo poo like this is pretty much all "funny" phrases: http://www.heptune.com/fartword.html
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Powaqoatse posted:What's the English for a level 2 fart anyway (not a shart, just a really loud/smelly fart)? I'm sure there is one, but I just can't recall any good words. Danish has like a "scale" of prut (normal) / skid (loud and/or smelly + brandskid for emphasis), and then outside of that there's all the weird phrase-based ones & the like. Has it occurred to you that maybe this is a peculiarity of Danish? 
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Jan 16, 2017 22:09
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Has it occurred to you that maybe this is a peculiarity of Danish? No way! Swedish has fart levels too. Oh also there's a level 0 too, so: fis / prut / skid is the basic scale. And actually English has a level 0 too in "poot" & its like
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Jan 16, 2017 22:16
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It makes sense. English has 'burp' and 'belch' to describe light and heavy ructus, there should be an equivalent for flatus. There's regional words like 'toot' and 'ripper' that most english speakers would understand as referring to different levels, but they're not common parlance.
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Jan 16, 2017 22:17
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Powaqoatse posted:No way! Swedish has fart levels too. Oh also there's a level 0 too, so: fis / prut / skid is the basic scale. Swedish and Danish aren't really separate languages, though.
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Jan 16, 2017 22:21
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Swedish and Danish aren't really separate languages, though. I don't really disagree, but they're only so mutually intelligible. They're further apart than any two big English dialects at least. Way easier to read than hear, but with practice it's no problem.
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Jan 16, 2017 22:30
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Not really any term, no. Despite the common Germanic heritage, English missed out on those words in common parlance, so instead just uses modifying adjectives. As to the play mentioned earlier: anything you think of is probably more interesting. Colleague was big into fringe production/self-reflective performance, and wanted to highlight the common stream-of-consciousness ties between James Joyce and Knut Hamsun. As the only person they knew with Nordic language experience, I got paid a couple six packs to translate the fart-letter and render it phonetically for a reader. The whole script was just a mishmash of aping literary technique in a "isn't this clever and intentionally weird!" kind of way. The beer was at least decent.
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RandomFerret posted:It makes sense. English has 'burp' and 'belch' to describe light and heavy ructus, there should be an equivalent for flatus. Maybe it's like the "Eskimos have 50 words for snow" thing, passing gas is an important part of Danish culture so they need more fart words.
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Welp, I suppose I should be pleased, then. Usually it seems like English has more weirdly specific variant words than Danish. Until now, the only group of words I knew where ours were more detailed than yours was family relations (we have separate words for male/female couins, paternal/maternal grandparents, biological/in-married aunts & uncles, etc). But now I know that English fart-words too are sorely inexact!
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I feel bad for all you english speakers out there who are unable to accurately label all the different kinds of farts. I mean what if you are hanging out with a bunch of friends and suddenly you can smell a fart but you couldn't hear it? That's a smygare (sneaker). Or one of those that just sound like an automatic soft air gun? That's a prutt.
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Foxhound posted:I feel bad for all you english speakers out there who are unable to accurately label all the different kinds of farts. The smell-not-hear is called an SBD "Silent, but Deadly" The other is maybe this? quote:The Celestial Fart - Not to be confused with the Did An Angel Speak Fart, which is simply any loud fart in church. The Celestial Fart is soft and delicate, surprising in a boy or an adult. It is probably the most shy of all farts and might be compared with the wood thrush, a very shy bird. It does not have the sly or cunning sound of the Whisper Fart. It is just a very small clear fart with no odor at all. Very rare. Here's comprehensive list of English fart names. I have to admit I've never given it a lot of thought, but I have used the some of the terms on this page at one time or another. It's definitely missing "Crop Duster": http://www.fartnames.com Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 01:26 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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flosofl posted:The smell-not-hear is called an SBD "Silent, but Deadly" motion to make "boomer" the synonym for a loud smelly fart
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Humerus posted:Is Florida cheating? Whatever.  37.
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L0cke17 posted:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3515202/Man-reported-police-Sweden-doing-revenge-fart-woman-denied-sex.html quote:disturbed her piece of mind I could pretty much copy out any sentence at random and find six things wrong with it.
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flosofl posted:Here's comprehensive list of English fart names. I have to admit I've never given it a lot of thought, but I have used the some of the terms on this page at one time or another. It's definitely missing "Crop Duster": Sadly and/or proudly, I can identify that many of these are plagiarized from The Dictionary of Farts, a book that I read often as a child and still keep on my bookshelf for reference purposes.
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Tiggum posted:That's some real quality writing there. I thought you were dissing the goon translation at first, which seems like bad form, but it's the Daily Mail itself (of course).
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http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/san-escobar-a-masterclass-in-accidental-nation-building
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Shikantaza posted:RSPCA warns of false alarms after call to catch cuddly toy quote:A welfare officer was called to help a collapsed horse but instead found only a pile of hay. Glorious.
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This has to be the weirdest one. How the hell does anyone think Schenider's a comedian? 
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Tell that to the poor Koopalings who routinely get stomped on, burned, and dumped into lava. Poor Roy has to take medicine to calm down enough to sleep. 
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Screaming Idiot posted:Tell that to the poor Koopalings who routinely get stomped on, burned, and dumped into lava. Poor Roy has to take medicine to calm down enough to sleep. The Koopalings aren't his kids, though.
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They aren't?
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Phimosissy posted:The Koopalings aren't his kids, though. We'll see what Maury-o has to say about that Ugh that joke didn't feel good at all
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:This has to be the weirdest one. How the hell does anyone think Schenider's a comedian? I was actually just thinking the other day about how Schneider is so bad that his irritating old SNL "makin' copieeessss!" character was probably the best thing he ever did
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Aesop Poprock posted:We'll see what Maury-o has to say about that This week on Dorkly....
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tacodaemon posted:I was actually just thinking the other day about how Schneider is so bad that his irritating old SNL "makin' copieeessss!" character was probably the best thing he ever did I like the Deuce Bigalow movies.  You ungrateful he-bitch.
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Jan 18, 2017 03:13
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The movie where grown men beat little kids at baseball was pretty funny too.
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Solice Kirsk posted:The movie where grown men beat little kids at baseball was pretty funny too. Was that the movie where Rob Schneider's issue was he had a hot wife but didn't want kids because he was a bully in grade school?
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Rough Lobster posted:They aren't? I mean, they might be. Bowser seems like the sort of monarch that might have a few children he is unaware of. They never were in any official way, though, as far as I know. Here's where some goon posts a piece of fanart sent in to Nintendo Power to prove me wrong though, probably.
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Phimosissy posted:I mean, they might be. Bowser seems like the sort of monarch that might have a few children he is unaware of. They never were in any official way, though, as far as I know. 
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bobjr posted:Was that the movie where Rob Schneider's issue was he had a hot wife but didn't want kids because he was a bully in grade school? Yeah, but then they have a kid. And he brags about nailing his wife to a bunch of 10 year olds. It really is a family classic.
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Phimosissy posted:I mean, they might be. Bowser seems like the sort of monarch that might have a few children he is unaware of. They never were in any official way, though, as far as I know. 
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Wait Morton Koopa Jr.? Is Bowser's wife named Morton? I'm not judging, but last we checked, his name wasn't Morton and I don't think Jr. carries down from previous generations
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