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"Long time no see" is basically a translation of the Chinese 好久不见, literally "very long* no see" * "Time" is implied here. Chinese is cool.
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Its pretty neat how idioms can get embedded across languages
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Mar 22, 2022 00:21
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I took me forever to realize that sayonara was Japanese. I thought it was Italian for the longest time.
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Mar 22, 2022 00:31
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I took me forever to realize that sayonara was Japanese. That was the same for me, weirdly enough. I wonder if that one has some general commonality.
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Mar 22, 2022 00:36
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I took me forever to realize that sayonara was Japanese. I thought domo arigato was Italian for the longest time lol
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Mar 22, 2022 00:45
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Chow, bella
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Mar 22, 2022 00:56
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Ohio gozaimasu
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Mar 22, 2022 01:08
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Sayonara Signora
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Mar 22, 2022 01:14
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That all very much sounds like Perry Como: the lost album
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Mar 22, 2022 01:29
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Mama mia that's a spicy tuna roll!
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Mar 22, 2022 01:30
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Cat Hassler posted:I thought domo arigato was Italian for the longest time lol Oh yeah, same here.
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Mar 22, 2022 01:35
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Oh yeah, same here. And I thought tiramisu was Japanese for the longest time lol
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Mar 22, 2022 01:42
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In Japan, I had someone offer me "tiramiss", and I had no idea what she was talking about. It turned out to be tiramisu. In Japanese you can leave out "u" sounds a lot of the time...
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Mar 22, 2022 02:18
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Shifty Nipples posted:I don't know much about how French words are spelled so if the word in that phrase is the same as the word I thought was buku/bookoo then I just figured something else out. It's the same word, it means "a lot." Not literally, literally it means "good hit." I guess in a sense of like getting something right on target, the most of that you can be maybe. "Bien sur" means "of course" but it's literally "well on" as in on top of.
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Mar 22, 2022 02:33
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Shifty Nipples posted:I don't know much about how French words are spelled so if the word in that phrase is the same as the word I thought was buku/bookoo then I just figured something else out. Me, too. I've heard buku or beaucoup and I've heard merci beaucoup but I didn't make the connection until now :O The society for maintaining the French language is the Académie Française and are made up of a group called The Immortals: quote:The Académie comprises forty members, known as les immortels ("the immortals"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise credburn has a new favorite as of 02:53 on Mar 22, 2022 |
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Mar 22, 2022 02:48
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venus de lmao posted:"Long time no see" is basically a translation of the Chinese 好久不见, literally "very long* no see" "pidgin" is a Chinese approximation of the word business Baron von Eevl posted:"Bien sur" means "of course" but it's literally "well on" as in on top of. "sur" means "on" "sûr" means "sure" "bien sûr" -> well sure
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Mar 22, 2022 08:14
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Phy posted:Yeah as chock full as English is of loanwords from European nations it's always fun to find ones that are a. Non-european and B. not related to the donor country's culture, like words for foods or important people. Like, I can absolutely see how "tycoon", "honcho" and "typhoon" wound up getting borrowed, but why the word for "a little bit"? And why do I associate it so much with a Wisconsin accent? 'Bint' springs to mind (Arabic word for girl/daughter)
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Captain Splendid posted:"pidgin" is a Chinese approximation of the word business Hey, I learned something! Mostly took French during that brief period where the eternals decided the circumflex shouldn't exist.
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Mar 22, 2022 12:55
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Arishem's way is archaic and violent.
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Buckaroo Bonzai
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Richard Lewis did a bunch of commercials in the 90s for the adult juice box Boku (or BoKu; it was styled with macrons over the vowels as a guide to pronunciation), and I think the slogan involved the phrase "have a Boku". That's almost certainly where I came to learn that collection of sounds as a kid/preteen. I doubt I interpreted later-heard uses of "beaucoup" as literal references to the drink, but I probably assumed it was nonsense/slang, possibly with the alternate spelling, for a while. All this coup talk reminds me: I didn't know for a very long time that the S sound at the end of coup de grace should be pronounced. Coup d'etat ends with an -ahh sound, but not that.
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Mar 23, 2022 03:30
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Harvey TWH posted:Coup d'etat ends with an -ahh sound The meaning of the name of the 80s Aus/NZ band Koo De Tah probably went over my head at the time, I was a dumb kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF33yFINUnU
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's the same word, it means "a lot." Not literally, literally it means "good hit." I guess in a sense of like getting something right on target, the most of that you can be maybe. "Bien sur" means "of course" but it's literally "well on" as in on top of. No, it’s from coup somehow evolving from strike to mean heap. So it just literally means a big pile and so “a lot”. Online this evolution is presented matter of factly as if of course slap became pile, why wouldn’t it? I don’t see the link though. Aphrodite has a new favorite as of 06:41 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Mar 23, 2022 06:35
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Aphrodite posted:No, it’s from coup somehow evolving from strike to mean heap. So it just literally means a big pile and so “a lot”. A "portion" of something, like a "hit" from a joint
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Mar 23, 2022 12:54
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The line in the Bloodhound Gang song The Bad Touch "Yes I'm Sisko, yes I'm Ebert and you're getting two thumbs up". The "two thumbs up" bit is probably a sex thing. Not just a compliment.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:56
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Prurient Squid posted:The line in the Bloodhound Gang song The Bad Touch gently caress you got me.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:59
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Prurient Squid posted:The line in the Bloodhound Gang song The Bad Touch That line is specifically a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_(1982_TV_program), where you could get at most two thumbs up. Up your BUM that is.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:01
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Ebert was a hardline breastman it must therefore be assumed that according to Hegelian Dialectics Siskel was an assman. Bomb rear end titties being the thesis, booties being the antithesis, the synthesis is the vaginur.
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Tunicate posted:Its pretty neat how idioms can get embedded across languages The " don't look a gift horse in the mouth" is older than English itself
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Harvey TWH posted:I didn't know for a very long time that the S sound at the end of coup de grace should be pronounced. Just don't look up the original usage of the expression  Speaking of pronouncing French things: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/02/is-pronunciation-your-forte.html posted:Q: How is the word “forte” pronounced in this sentence: “Pronunciation is not my forte”? I usually hear people say “FOR-tay,” as in the Italian word for loud. Shouldn’t it be “fort,” as in the French word for strength? Has FOR-tay become acceptable through wide usage?
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my very sweet and religious grandfather in law died a few years ago at 92. he was always reading western paperbacks. he was around for the big Hollywood Western period and was from Wyoming, so I didn't think anything of it and assumed they were just adventure books. They were called Longarm Turns out they're basically porno books lmao. they were published at a rate of one per month from 1978 to 2015 hawowanlawow has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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I just learned the names of the days of the week were a lot more systematic than I thought. It starts with the Hellenistic system introduced by the Romans, where each day of a 7 day week was named after a "classical" planet - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. In English, these were translated into the local equivalent, including the gods identified as being the local versions of the Roman ones. Tyr was associated with Mars, Woden with Mercury, Thor with Jupiter, and Frigga with Venus. I guess the Angles didn't have a god of time or something, because Saturday stuck around with the sun and moon. And this system didn't just spread west, it went east around the same time as well, and the day names in many Hindu and other southeast Asian languages are based on the same planets in the same order.
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Phy posted:I just learned the names of the days of the week were a lot more systematic than I thought. It starts with the Hellenistic system introduced by the Romans, where each day of a 7 day week was named after a "classical" planet - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. That's pretty cool about the Asian connection . If you know the days in French it's quite obvious too
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Saturday is called lørdag in Danish, which comes from wash-/bath-day 
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After a week without bathing you'd be one cheesy Danish
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Phy posted:I just learned the names of the days of the week were a lot more systematic than I thought. It starts with the Hellenistic system introduced by the Romans, where each day of a 7 day week was named after a "classical" planet - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn. Is there evidence that it actually started with the hellenistic system? With that kind of spread it's tempting to wonder if it doesn't have an earlier Indo-European source.
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It's Middle-Week, lads.
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Trabant posted:Speaking of pronouncing French things: "forte" isn't even a noun in french, it's an adjective. so there's no situation in which "my forte" is just like an italian or french word that you're using correctly in english, and it doesn't matter at all what the french and the italians think. you'd have to be a moron to think "oh, I must pronounce it in this fancy way, because it's french". it's not! it's just english. and it's pronounced "for-tay".
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Prurient Squid posted:The line in the Bloodhound Gang song The Bad Touch I just found out some people don’t know who Gene Siskel is.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I just found out some people don’t know who Gene Siskel is. Same 
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