Joke hinges on English “slut” being spelled like the Norwegian word for end, “slutt”, but it actually doesn’t.
Swedes bring very silent over in the corner…
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Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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TomasEkeli@programming.dev 10 months ago
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of “slut” to “sludd” in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.
TomasEkeli@programming.dev 10 months ago
“Slutt” (means end) is not commonly used for “sludd” (means sleet), though. Never actually seen “sludd” spelled like that, but “slutt” meaning end is extremely common.
I wouldn’t expect any Norwegian to read “slutt” and assume it meant sleet.
Potato@feddit.org 10 months ago
Sure, except the Norwegian spelling is “slutt”. The pronunciation is a bit different from the English word “slut”, the English one uses more of a ø-sound for the u. “sludd” is the Norwegian word for sleet, which is a mix of snow and water. This is even stated by your sources.
ptu@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Where did you get that the English pronunciation had ø-sound?
SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Yeah, imagine words having different meanings in different languages
untorquer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
Same, truck 😔
Hupf@feddit.org 10 months ago
bartvbl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The lecturer and TA’s for a university course combined tend to get referred to as the “fagstab”.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Jeg snakke ikke Norsk.
Griffus@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Jeg snakker* ikke norsk*.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn’t speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎
Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Discussing language and using English to do so, is hysterically ironic. “Is that how you pronounce it? I’ve only ever seen it written!”
untorquer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The English interpretation of the Norwegian pronunciation still works since the ‘a’ sound is the same as in “dawn”.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dojan@pawb.social 10 months ago
It probably is real. Google Translate gets updated and translations change over time. It used to translate “inglasat uterum” (Swedish) as “glazed uterus.”
It means glass-encased veranda.
It no longer translates it to that.
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I had to check, the Finnish word “kinkkukiusaus” which is a ham and potato casserole, still translates to “ham temptation”
meliaesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is graduating not a synonym for ending?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Kind of. I’m just saying they posted a screenshot of a translation not currently happening and I could easily see it be edited in browser with dev tools or Photoshop for Internet points
vivendi@programming.dev 10 months ago
Use it as a part of some other compound. It will translate fine.
For example, try slutt datafag lærd
ignotum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just gonna slide in here to say that both that and the original is basically gibberish, my best-effort translation of the last one would just be “stop computer science educated”
Erika3sis@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers’ voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.
Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.
This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say “graduate computer science”. To me it reads more like commanding someone to “quit computer science!”, more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, “to complete one’s education in computer science”.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
For completeness sake there’s Low Saxon “Slunt”, note the n, meaning “rag” as well as “disorderly person”. Not related to German “Schlund”, gullet, that’d be Slunk. I can’t find any proper etymology but my guess would be that English lost the “n” at some point.
Funnier are words like Gröönhöker. That’s the same roots as “green” and “hooker” but it’s not what you think, it’s someone who can hook you up with the green stuff, a greengrocer. Or the perfectly cromulent toponym Quickborn meaning “lively spring”.
Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Rolig nå
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Du lukter dridtgodt.
trd@feddit.nu 10 months ago
Ingen fart uten bart.
bartvbl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s not the fart that kills you, it’s the smell.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Noggin e here; You’ve got the important ones. Meet me next year for Norwegian 201 - Phrases to use when your karsk tastes weird.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a Norwegian, I concur.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For some reason I have you tagged as dansk/norsk
virku@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).
Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven’t seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
‘Oh boy, I can’t wait for that new indie action film “Fullført informatikk” to release!’
vivendi@programming.dev 10 months ago
You should bring back the usage of datafag as fast as possible
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.
Turns out, neither would Google translate
virku@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.
dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I totally read it as “datakink”…
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
drmoose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lmao it even looks like cheeks spreading
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A there noggie here - Yes, they’re named after the effect they have on your digestive system after passing them at too high speeds.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
norweigan is however a lanerious sanguage
lime@feddit.nu 10 months ago
slutt is a verb here
expatriado@lemmy.world 10 months ago
all Norwegian movies end with a reminder i am a slut
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Im about to become a slut in a fee months.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Funny thing I was already a slut before I earned my computer science degree.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Damn, never thought I was graduate computer science.
unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I took two years of Norwegian in university, and in my first-ever class, tthe prof, a lovely woman originally from Sweden, brought us cookies.
One girl didn’t make it to the second class because sis could literally not say ‘småkaker’ without bursting into laughter.