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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:22 am
I guess this has happened to everyone. You learn new words in a foreign language, and you run into something that you really, really can't ignore.
I myself truly enjoy those incidents, and I'd like to hear some unusual words and phrases you've learned (words and phrases from your first languages also accepted).
For example, the word 死に損なう （"shinisokonau"） in Japanese which actually means "to fail to die" really made me chuckle when I found it in the dictionary.
Any examples of your own?
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:49 pm
There's a verb in French faillir, which means "to almost do something", although I don't find that nearly as interesting as "to fail to die" xd
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:13 pm
By the way, Japanese also has words for "fail to see a movie", "fail on social duties" "to fail to earn a credit". I really do think Japanese has the largest variety of unusual words.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:10 pm
Bloodless Amber By the way, Japanese also has words for "fail to see a movie", "fail on social duties" "to fail to earn a credit". I really do think Japanese has the largest variety of unusual words. I agree. by the way... kami ga daisuki ne blaugh
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:42 am
Bloodless Amber By the way, Japanese also has words for "fail to see a movie", "fail on social duties" "to fail to earn a credit". I really do think Japanese has the largest variety of unusual words. Sounds like it has the largest variety of words for to fail something. xd
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:57 pm
Newest pun I ran across a friend, Marie. (Chikuro on Gaia. PM her with loves.)
"Hao Long is a Chinaman."
"...You don't measure in Chinamen."
Somehow that was applicable here.
***
"kvůli" is a Czech word meaning "For the sake of".
I found that weird.
So technically you could be all.
"Petrovi kvůli!! D:"
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:13 am
I've yet to find a word in Finnish which corresponds all the meanings of the werb 'to ignore'. Such a great word. xd
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:42 pm
to have a "caripela" is to have a sad face sad
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:44 am
o___o
There's so many in French that amuse me, I don't know where to begin.
'Remourir' -- to die again. gonk
How would one succeed in dying twice? Wouldn't once be enough?
Does it count that I recently found out that one of my two last names was one 'e' away from an informal word for 'testicles'?
Burns as opposed to 'burnes'. I'm sure each and every French person would notice the similarities... gonk
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:26 pm
Ich habe Kartoffelsalad in meine Lederhosen! surprised
I don't know if it says anything about me as a person, but one of the first things I ever learned to say in German was that I have potato salad in my Lederhosen... Actually I tried to pick up some Austrians with that once. They just laughed and didn't at all seem to want kinky sex with me. They must have been gay or something.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:41 pm
The first phrase I learned in a lot of
Holy @%#&, a wood duck just walked through my yard!
languages was "Drop your weapons and surrender!"
I now have it in thirty-one different languages, which is both impressive and sad at the same time.
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:36 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast o___o There's so many in French that amuse me, I don't know where to begin. 'Remourir' -- to die again. gonk How would one succeed in dying twice? Wouldn't once be enough? Does it count that I recently found out that one of my two last names was one 'e' away from an informal word for 'testicles'? Burns as opposed to 'burnes'. I'm sure each and every French person would notice the similarities... gonk LOL, I've just realised that Mr. Burns' (y'know, from the Simpsons? xd ) name must be a huge joke in France... lol
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:55 pm
Proudly_Jewish Eccentric Iconoclast o___o There's so many in French that amuse me, I don't know where to begin. 'Remourir' -- to die again. gonk How would one succeed in dying twice? Wouldn't once be enough? Does it count that I recently found out that one of my two last names was one 'e' away from an informal word for 'testicles'? Burns as opposed to 'burnes'. I'm sure each and every French person would notice the similarities... gonk LOL, I've just realised that Mr. Burns' (y'know, from the Simpsons? xd ) name must be a huge joke in France... lol MY name would be a huge joke in France. gonk Especially since I just realised how my other last name 'Gausman' would be pronounced; it's more subtle than 'Burns', but it's still there. They'd say it 'Gosseman'. Gosses -- testicles. gonk gonk gonk
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:09 pm
Proudly_Jewish Eccentric Iconoclast o___o There's so many in French that amuse me, I don't know where to begin. 'Remourir' -- to die again. gonk How would one succeed in dying twice? Wouldn't once be enough? Does it count that I recently found out that one of my two last names was one 'e' away from an informal word for 'testicles'? Burns as opposed to 'burnes'. I'm sure each and every French person would notice the similarities... gonk LOL, I've just realised that Mr. Burns' (y'know, from the Simpsons? xd ) name must be a huge joke in France... lol
Actually...not really. I guess you don't think about it.
wink
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:17 am
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