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Captain Monkey posted:There's already an r sound in word. In some varieties of English, yes. The bad varieties 
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Captain Monkey posted:There's already an r sound in word. Yeah we Anglophones don't know that the umlaut is a hidden r and just pronounce it as an o , was the joke.
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Oct 3, 2018 01:07
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Yeah we Anglophones don't know that the umlaut is a hidden r and just pronounce it as an o , was the joke. As the venerable Bede would have put it: whät?
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Oct 3, 2018 01:28
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Edit: I often go to south Louisiana for work, snd every time have to explain to my copilot that "Rue Lois IV" is French for "Louis the 14th's street." No it isn't.
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Oct 3, 2018 03:15
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Chillbro Baggins posted:That's usually how an umluat is transliterated in English, yes. CF u-Boat Admiral Dönitz's name is pronounced in English as "Durnits" or "Donuts" when actually it's halfway between, a vowel native English speakers can't quite get right. I assume "spöd" is the same and is halfway between the American colloquial word for taters and "sperd," phonetically. He wasn't unsure about how spöd is pronounced, he was unsure about how spoede was pronounced. I'm putting my money on "spayed." Also that's not how Roman Numerals work.
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Oct 3, 2018 03:33
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Baron von Eevl posted:He wasn't unsure about how spöd is pronounced, he was unsure about how spoede was pronounced. I'm putting my money on "spayed." The oe is the ö
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Oct 3, 2018 04:22
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EX250 Type R posted:The oe is the ö In the US, don't trust that common spellings yield common pronunciations, especially if they're adapted spellings. "Spoede" may be the accepted way to Anglicize "Spöde" but I'd lay even odds that in the US, "Spoede Rd." is pronounced "speedy".
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Oct 3, 2018 04:29
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Something I just heard about for the first time: Häagen-Dazs icecream isn't Danish at all, it was created in Brooklyn in 1961 by two Jewish guys who just made up a brand name that sounded foreign. Apparently Danish doesn't even have umlauts or the 'zs' letter combination.
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Oct 3, 2018 15:27
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Something I just heard about for the first time: Häagen-Dazs icecream isn't Danish at all, it was created in Brooklyn in 1961 by two Jewish guys who just made up a brand name that sounded foreign. Apparently Danish doesn't even have umlauts or the 'zs' letter combination. Also, Matsui is a British brand, manufactured in China or wherever.
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Oct 3, 2018 16:23
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Something I just heard about for the first time: Häagen-Dazs icecream isn't Danish at all, it was created in Brooklyn in 1961 by two Jewish guys who just made up a brand name that sounded foreign. Apparently Danish doesn't even have umlauts or the 'zs' letter combination. Yeah it looks kinda Slavic to me, a Dane
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Oct 3, 2018 23:26
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Something I just heard about for the first time: Häagen-Dazs icecream isn't Danish at all, it was created in Brooklyn in 1961 by two Jewish guys who just made up a brand name that sounded foreign. Apparently Danish doesn't even have umlauts or the 'zs' letter combination. This had me looking up the origins and I found this gem on Wikipedia: quote:In 1980, Häagen-Dazs unsuccessfully sued Frusen Glädjé, an American ice cream maker founded that year, for using foreign branding strategies. The phrase frusen glädje—without the acute accent—is Swedish for "frozen delight". Talk about balls.. suing another company because they also used a foreign sounding name? I didn't realize there were trademark protections for that sort of thing! Tbf their argument was a little bit deeper and they suggested that only they should be allowed to dupe consumers into thinking their ice cream had Scandinavian origins. Luckily the courts didn't agree with their argument, but it is still ballsy.
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Oct 4, 2018 01:28
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I'm gonna set up an ice-cream firm in America and call it Farténs Tjüsning.
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Oct 4, 2018 02:12
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I had always assumed SEGA was a Japanese-founded company with a Japanese name since the name's an easy transliteration from Japanese. Turns out it started as an American company's operations in Japan to build amusements for US service members serving overseas. After a Japanese concern bought out Service Games they shortened the name to SeGa.
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Oct 4, 2018 02:16
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Baron von Eevl posted:Also that's not how Roman Numerals work. Yeah the X in 14 was omitted and also I meant to say o with an umlaut is a secret e. I'm blaming the phone keyboard. Re: SEGA: huh, I didn't know that. Nintendo started out making playing cards in Japan. Nikon and Canon are also actually Japanese. In other news, I just blew somebody's mind by telling them that Katherine and Katarina are the same name in different languages. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 04:06 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Oct 4, 2018 03:54
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Chillbro Baggins posted:In other news, I just blew somebody's mind by telling them that Katherine and Katarina are the same name in different languages. Wait til you tell them about John and Ivan :the more you know:
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Oct 4, 2018 05:47
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Cacafuego posted:Wait til you tell them about John and Ivan :the more you know: I did! "Ivan Ivanovich = John Johnson" And also Sasha = Alex and is mostly for boys! And also Gorbachev wouldn't get mad enough to start WWIII if Reagan called him "Mike". Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 06:03 on Oct 4, 2018 |
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Oct 4, 2018 05:51
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Cacafuego posted:Wait til you tell them about John and Ivan :the more you know: Iohannes Caeser, Tsar Ivan, King John, and Kaizer Johann.
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Oct 4, 2018 15:35
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Chillbro Baggins posted:And also Sasha = Alex and is mostly for boys! I knew a girl named (or nicknamed?) Sasha that went by Alex when I re-met her years later. Never made the connection until this very day.
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Oct 4, 2018 15:50
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burial posted:I knew a girl named (or nicknamed?) Sasha that went by Alex when I re-met her years later. Never made the connection until this very day. Her name was Alexandra, she just switched from the Russian to the English short version. On the other side of the coin, one of my father's brothers goes by Bob. It's not short for Robert, his birth certificate says "Bobby Joe [Baggins]." Grandma on the Baggins side was ... well ... a bit off. One of their other brothers is Arthur Jr. (and goes by his middle name because his dad's first name was also out of date at the time), she wanted to name him Oberon but was overruled by Grandpa. She still called him "Obie" till the day she died.
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Oct 4, 2018 22:59
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burial posted:I knew a girl named (or nicknamed?) Sasha that went by Alex when I re-met her years later. Never made the connection until this very day. I can see that. Not being able to link Katarina and Katherine is stupid, however
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Oct 4, 2018 23:01
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Chillbro Baggins posted:On the other side of the coin, one of my father's brothers goes by Bob. Bob's your uncle.
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Oct 5, 2018 02:21
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OK this type of long pulla is called pitko in Finnish. Just a few minutes ago I took a look at the packaging for a store-bought one and noticed "oh wow the Swedish word for pitko is just "length" (längd)" ha ha". It took me a minute or two to realize that the Finnish word is pretty much the same, as pitko comes from pitkä meaning long or (when used about a human being) tall  How can you speak a language for almost 40 years and never realize blatantly obvious stuff like that? 
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Oct 5, 2018 18:10
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Chillbro Baggins posted:On the other side of the coin, one of my father's brothers goes by Bob. It's not short for Robert, his birth certificate says "Bobby Joe [Baggins]." Grandma on the Baggins side was ... well ... a bit off. I think this is more common than one might assume. I have a cousin whose legal given name is Andy.
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Oct 5, 2018 18:15
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Jerry Cotton posted:It took me a minute or two to realize that the Finnish word is pretty much the same, as pitko comes from pitkä meaning long or (when used about a human being) tall Ah yes, the famously intuitive Finnish language  Also, IT'S HIS DICK
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Oct 5, 2018 18:17
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Pastry of the Year posted:
You mean sweet and delicious?
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Oct 5, 2018 19:34
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lumpy and encrusted
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Oct 5, 2018 19:41
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hawowanlawow posted:consisting of three entwined pieces with granular sugar on top
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I used to go to a burrito place that had a loyalty card, 10th burrito is free sort of thing. One day I look down and I see the hole punch they use is shaped like a tiny donkey. "Oh a burro," I think to myself. "A tiny burro. More like a bu... oh."
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Baron von Eevl posted:I used to go to a burrito place that had a loyalty card, 10th burrito is free sort of thing. One day I look down and I see the hole punch they use is shaped like a tiny donkey. "Oh a burro," I think to myself. "A tiny burro. More like a bu... oh." That's pretty good but it's even better if you think of you as your avatar.
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Her name was Alexandra, she just switched from the Russian to the English short version. My grandpa wanted to name my dad William Bill. And he had a brother named Golden and a sister named Goldie. They were twins.
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Oct 6, 2018 13:39
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I recently met a guy who didn't realise that you can put paper in the toilet bowl before pooping to avoid having your butt splashed until the age of 23.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:28
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Covski posted:I recently met a guy who didn't realise that you can put paper in the toilet bowl before pooping to avoid having your butt splashed until the age of 23. What the hell? How high is your water/how heavy your loads that this is a thing?
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Oct 6, 2018 18:35
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More from the archives: - hanging the roll over or under - German poop shelves - wiping back to front or front to back - speck of poo in the bowl? Piss on it & give up or bring out the brush
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Oct 6, 2018 18:41
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Get a bidet, you heathens.
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Oct 6, 2018 18:48
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Covski posted:I recently met a guy who didn't realise that you can put paper in the toilet bowl before pooping to avoid having your butt splashed until the age of 23. Wait till they find out about {sit/stand} wipers.
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Oct 6, 2018 19:47
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We need to topple Big Charmin because toilet paper is outdated and needs to go.
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Oct 6, 2018 20:38
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JoelJoel posted:Get a bidet, you heathens. Get this
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Oct 6, 2018 20:50
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Len posted:What the hell? How high is your water/how heavy your loads that this is a thing? The famous country song is actually about whether or not it's safe to take a dump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLJvLIfRMpg
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Something I just realized MOST people don’t know: one of the little symbols you ignore on your packaged food items is telling you the kosher status of the food. For ex a little u in a circle on sabra hummus.
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This is languages again but I was giving a confused Chinese man directions today and it's messed up how we use "right" in English. He asked where a store was and I pointed out a mall entrance and said "right there, turn left". Then I started thinking about how else I could have said it and came up with "Right ahead on the left", "right through that door and then left" and similar variations. I realize I could have said "turn left after going through the door" but it would have taken a conscious effort to word it that way. It's weird that right can mean the direction, correct, and that's not even getting into the moral implications.
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