"Svend" (svend)
02/27/2019 at 06:01 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
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and even after being told how to say them, don’t think I could again.
To be honest I used to just say lekker or heel mooi
Probably may of used this one on here a few times after washing Piglet.
Strange hearing or reading foreign gestures translated like, bon appetit, for enjoy your food or as I’ve heard some French say in English, good eating.
PartyPooper2012
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 07:32 |
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Many languages have odd sayings.
Russian - idi na hui... literally: go on penis. Means fuck off / go fuck yourself
Ne veshai mne
lapshu na ushi - literally:
don’t hang pasta on my ears - means don’t lie to me.
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Svend
> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 07:53 |
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Ye’, these are just some of the Dutch ones I came across today. I’m glad I didn’t come across them when I lived there as I’d probably have the most confused or blank look on my face.
There was a BBC Qi episode done on Japanese sayings, some of them while meaning the same as those used in the U.K. were said very differently.
Some recent U.S. ones drive me insane, ‘It’s worth $5, all day long’ - it’s $5 and worth it , ‘I need to speak to you real quick’ - I need to speak to you urgently , ‘I reached out’ - I contacted, etc...
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PartyPooper2012
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 08:20 |
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You’re not alone. 23 years into it and I am still confused by some English expressions.
Time - 5 of... 5 to or 5 after? I have no idea what 5 of means.
touch base - I am a mobile human. Issue I am dealing with is also not made of mount E verest...so everything is portable... no base. cant touch it.
BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 08:25 |
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I’ve only heard people say the first one when referring to beer, but I guess it could also work for food.
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 08:34 |
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My favorite is from Australia:
“I’m not here to fuck spiders”
Usage:
- You want a beer?
-Well, I’m not here to fuck spiders.
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Svend
> BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
02/27/2019 at 08:35 |
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Yeah. I’ve always just stuck with lekker, mooi and heel mooi. Lol.
Me having a limited vocabulary of Dutch, if I wanted to learn these, it would take ages and if I tried to say them, almost 99.999999% change the person I was talking to wouldn’t understand what I was saying.
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Svend
> MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
02/27/2019 at 08:42 |
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Ye’, Aussies h a ve a way with words.
E ven some of their sign language is p riceless.
NSFW
Clown Shoe Pilot
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 08:49 |
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I used to work with several folks who were big on “reaching out” and it sort of became a trigger phrase for me. It’s definitely overused US business English and with any luck it’ll fall out of fashion.
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 08:50 |
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“ 5 of” is before. “5 of 6:00" is 5:55.
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MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 08:59 |
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It’s worth $5, all day long
I think this comes from the idea that $5 is the best price you’re going to see. Like at an open market or something you might be able to haggle the price down more later in the day since the vendor might be trying to move some more product, but this item will be $5 all day long.
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Svend
> Clown Shoe Pilot
02/27/2019 at 09:12 |
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Here’s hoping.
Currently this is what I imagine when I read or hear, ‘I tried reaching out to the BBC’.
Nooooo.
It’s, ‘I tried getting in contact with the BBC for a comment’, ‘After contacting the BBC, I am awaiting a reply’ , etc...
Stop ‘ reaching out’ and speaking ‘real quick’.
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> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 09:16 |
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“5 of” means five minutes into whatever hour it is. “ 5 of 9" means 9:05, or five minutes after nine o’clock. Why? No idea.
“Touch base” means
“t
o check in,
meet up and discuss future
plans”.
N
earest I
can figure, i
t
refers to playing tag as a kid, where
base
is
a location that
serves as a safe zone -can’t be tagged of you’re touching it- so naturally it’s where everyone meets up
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PartyPooper2012
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02/27/2019 at 09:23 |
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.... see Clown Shoe Pilot ’s response.
Clown Shoe Pilot PartyPooper2012
“5 of” is before. “5 of 6:00" is 5:55.
duurtlang
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 09:37 |
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It’s all about practice. I moved to Germany relatively recently and I notice my conversational skill in German are improving quite a bit.
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> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 10:34 |
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Wow, not how I learned it at all.
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> Clown Shoe Pilot
02/27/2019 at 10:35 |
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That’s weird, I was taught that “5 of” was the same as “5 after”
BigBlock440
> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 10:35 |
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touch base - I am a mobile human. Issue I am dealing with is also not made of mount Everest...so everything is portabl e ... no base. cant touch it.
I’m not looking it up right now, but more likely to be baseball related than mountain climbing.
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PartyPooper2012
> BigBlock440
02/27/2019 at 10:53 |
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i do neither of those.
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PartyPooper2012
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02/27/2019 at 10:55 |
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this is why I stick with precise time. if its 5:55, I say it’s 5:55. If it’s 6:05, I say it’s 6:05.
This crap is confusing and people interpret it in different ways so I don’t know who is right and I don’t care which way is which.
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Clown Shoe Pilot
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02/27/2019 at 20:48 |
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Here’s a bunch of Stack Exchange nerds talking about it:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6758/what-does-ten-of-six-mean-in-regard-to-time
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> PartyPooper2012
02/27/2019 at 20:51 |
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replying twice so you see the notification too -
Here’s a bunch of Stack Exchange nerds talking about it:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/6758/what-does-ten-of-six-mean-in-regard-to-time
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Clown Shoe Pilot
> Svend
02/27/2019 at 20:52 |
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The same page. We are on it.
You’re on it with better photoshop skills.
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Svend
> and 100 more
02/27/2019 at 20:56 |
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That crap would drive me insane.
I found it odd for years that Germans would say half six, not as in half past six, but half an hour to six.
In the U.K. anything up to and including 30 minutes in past the hour and anything after that is 29 minutes or so to the hour. Unless you were talking about an event that would happen at say six o’clock and it was 20 minutes past five, you may say, ‘40 minutes to six’ but if the event doesn’t fall on the hour but say quarter past six, you’d say, ‘2o past five or five 20 , 55 minutes to go’.
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Svend
> Clown Shoe Pilot
02/27/2019 at 21:06 |
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My photoshop skills are shite.
I’d love to be able to change colours on car pictures and not have it look like a toddler took a crayon to a piece of paper.
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> Clown Shoe Pilot
02/27/2019 at 23:00 |
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Well shit.