That alien is a fellow Dvorak user! (aoeu is the Dvorak equivalent of asdf)
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Submitted 4 months ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Taldan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SonOfSuns@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There are dozens of us!! Dozens!!
saimen@feddit.org 4 months ago
Try watching an Indian movie. They just randomly use English words in nearly every sentence.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Quite a few languages use borrowed words.
Imagine being a native Spanish speaker and listening to English media. Blah blah blah macho blah blah blah cafeteria blah blah guerrilla blah blah adobe blah blah blah El Nino.
sirico@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Same with Korean for a lot of new words they just adopted the English one
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I once saw a Japanese person post that if you can’t think of a word in Japanese and instead just say the English word in a really racist Japanese accent, then you’ve got about a 50% chance of being right
rucksack@feddit.org 4 months ago
Wait until you find out how the Chinese say things like “uuhm”.
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nigga please!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 months ago
I’m not super fluent in most other languages, but I do know “fuck” and “shit” in, like, a lot of them and can tell if you’re cussing at me.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
its the damm lesbian agenda at it again!
DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
The lesbian agenda to not be a piece of meat for men.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Vast Lesbian Conspiracy to meet another girl at a softball game, move out to a cabin in the woods together, and run for city council in Portland.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
ok friend, i wasn’t being serious. also, i don’t view women as that.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Fucking monsters opening bookstores and shit!
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
NOT THE BOOKSTORES
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
[deleted]rucksack@feddit.org 4 months ago
I’m German and I also sometimes use perkele, just because it’s such an awesome word. Don’t know about my pronunciation though…
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As a regular Swede I will say that Finnish swear words hit differently. More oomph in them xD
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for some years, and my boss natively spoke Mandarin but whenever he was muttering to himself about something or another he would always cuss in English. I have no idea why this should be but it was always hilarious.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
My GG-Grandpappy from Hungary (was it Austria-Hungary when he left?) did the same thing. I only ever met him once before he passed but I distinctly remember not understanding a word he said unless he was cursing.
embed_me@programming.dev 4 months ago
Cursing in another language is less stimagtizeda
bloor@feddit.org 4 months ago
Similar situation in South Tyrol (an province at the border to Austria): the german-speaking minority (who is the majority in the province) primarily uses italian curse words. A theory I once read trying to explain this is that you hope that God is less likely to notice you when you curse in a different language.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 4 months ago
And somehow they pick a latin-derived language for that? Latin being literally the language of their church if they’re not protestants?
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 4 months ago
Tbf I also do that, but my grandma was Finnish.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
那不是普通话，那是三体人语。
如果回答，我们就会到来。
你的世界将被占领
不要回答。不要回答。不要回答。That’s not Putonghua (Mandarin), that’s the Trisolarian Language
If you reply, we will come.
Your world will be conquered.
Do not answer. Do not answer. Do not answer.uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That was amazing! Thank you for the link!
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Some accents say the full 那一个, but shorten 那一 into one sound.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Dr Ye Winjie:
Fucking, GOOD. I want them to come.
LwL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
我的头水没了。我要那个electrolytes给我的小豆脑，很constipated
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What language is this from? Is it a variant of Mandarin or another Chinese language?
My reasons for confusion 头水：my Pinyin keyboard doesn’t even want to write this. Is this supposed to be 口水？
小豆脑：is this some metaphor?
‘My saliva is gone. I want that those electrolytes give me tofu brain [very soft tofu for other people reading], very constipated’
I’m a very confused Chinese learner.
Edit before responding: I think I understand the metaphor now lol
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
It’s supposed to be the quote from Tropic Thunder where Robert Downey Jr’s character is speaking Mandarin very poorly, but I couldn’t find the actual words he spoke so I just machine translated it, which I think keeps the spirit of bad translation lol.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 months ago
Maybe Lesbian Agenda is a noteworthy band in the Beijing post-punk scene or something?
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lesbian Agenda, now touring with their sophomore release: Theory of a Race Critic
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 months ago
🤘
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I went to college in Alabama (southern USA) and my very country barber was mostly unintelligible but one day, mid-sentence, the words “statutory rape” very articulately came out of his mouth and I still wonder what the fuck that was all about.
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 months ago
my barber (closet reform, but never says it because he knows he’d lose customers):
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“these left-wing protesters, very hateful people aren’t they?”
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“doesn’t the earths temperature fluctuate anyway?”
(I’ve mentioned to him what the protests are about, and that we have ice record data showing unprecedented CO2+methane along with said fluctuations. He’s either partially or willfully deaf.)
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Barber talking about politics jfc. That’s why when I still went to a barber I just kept to my Donald Duck comics
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TheBat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Talking about local republicans?
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 4 months ago
Just regular barber discourse
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 4 months ago
I had Mexican flatmates/neighbours during my master’s abroad, and it was always funny to me how they casually insert English words while speaking, with a perfect American accent whilist talking Spanish
As an Italian I might do that too, but the accent is nowhere near, we just need the word in English but pronunciation can be whatever
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah the funny and notable part about it is the fact that the English word isn’t said with a Spanish accent.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 4 months ago
It’s such an immigrant thing to do. At this point my conversations with my partner almost always have English and German mixed in. But even back in my country, I’d use a lot of English because I couldn’t remember the word in my language or it was simply easier to do so in English, lol.
Eq0@literature.cafe 4 months ago
I am totally unable to drop a single word in a different language in the middle of a sentence. Switching language? Sure! One word in? It’s unintelligible
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same here, but when I manage it, it comes out in a thick Spanish accent that I usually don’t have. 😅
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 4 months ago
I speak a lot of English and do so with a Swedish accent. Since we're trained on British English in school and mostly exposed to American English otherwise, it tends to be a mashed up version of English too.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 months ago
When I was a child my mother worked at night to deliver newspapers. A lot of her colleagues were Turkish and German was only spoken when it was relevant for all or explicitly for my mother and step father.
I could often hear conversations held in Turkish interrupted with German words like “Steuererklärung” (tax declaration) or “Finanzamt” (German tax authority) but my personal highlight was when a Turkish outburst was followed by a “Du Schofseckl” which is a very local way to call someone names. Just imagine someone talking to you in a foreign language and ends with a term your grandfather used to berate stupid neighbors.
RidderSport@feddit.org 4 months ago
Schofseckl is such a heavy dialect insult that my norther ass had to reread that word a couple of times to find out what it meant. Guess they integrated well, much better than I would because I’d refuse to on principle.
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 months ago
That’s fair, I learned to speak a more understandable version as I grew older. One of my half brothers and his father have a very heavy dialect. To the amusement of my sisters and me.
Their dialect is so strong that when the car broke down while on their way to family in Hessen, my step father couldn’t properly communicate with the mechanic. We still quote parts of the conversation. It was glorious.
Other than that I love Swabian life lessons like " ‘s läbe isch koin Schlotzer" or small odes to their treckers like "Isch d’ Berg au no so schteil, mein Fendt der schafft des alleweil!".
But I also prefer the way you people in the North talk. At least listening :D
RavuAlHemio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If I’m parsing that correctly, it means “you sheep’s bag”, referring to its scrotum. 😀
ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 4 months ago
The “Schof” is not drived from the German “Schaf” but from Yiddish. The older generations used it to describe someone who’s a useless idiot. E.g. when. someone fucks up something easy and obvious
fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What exactly is the lesbian agenda? Build better decks? Pockets on all women’s clothes? Better rates at U-Haul?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
CARGO SKIRTS!
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
If there’s anything I’ve learned from my trips to Rona and this comment it’s that there’s considerable crossover between the interests of Dads and lesbians
phx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait, am I a lesbian?