Fun things with various languages

[Arilou]

Feel free to post fun/odd/useful tidbits about various languages here.

Let's start with swedish, swedish is absolutely adorable, we're not quite as bad as the germans, but we can create compound words like nobody else. (even more confusing is the fact that a compound word might mean something totally different than a the different words written a part "skum tomte" "kassa apparater" and "kyckling lever" are good examples) Add to that the fact that swedish can easily turn a word into a different word-class (eg. Car "bil" (from "automobile") can be turned into the verb "bila" ("to drive a car") "sol" (sun) can be turned into "sola" (to sunbathe) "soligt" (sunny) etc. etc. you can get mightily impressive words that, while sometimes a bit awkward, are entirely legible and sometimes even grammatically correct, to take a not-too overhwelming example:

Utrikesdepartementspressekreterare (Utrikes= "foreign", literally "from outside the kingdom") + Departement=Department + pressekreterare ("secretary of press", note the lack of preposition) = "Secretary of Press at the Department of Foreign affairs."

Fun no? That's not even an extreme example.

[Praetorian]

Hottentottententententoonstellingsmakersopleidings programma.

[No_]

http://www.slayradio.org/mastering_swedish_lesson_4.php

[Animeband]

Haha, I love German:

Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften - "insurance company" Used in common everyday language too. German is the king of compounding words

Plus no matter how it's spoken (at least in my mind) or what is said, you always sound like you're gonna kill the person you're speaking to. You could be telling your girlfriend "Ich laufe sie" and it would sound like to a non German speaker that you're trying to kill her.

Oh yeah, German is semi useful when you can't pronounce Czech to save your life. Only Czech people can speak Czech without looking stupid :(

[sgt. pepper]

Yeah, if i german started yelling at me i would run and hide.

[renegade]

there's a funny (not realy all that funny acutaly) thing with hebrew and japanese

if you write the word *america* in japanese (katakana) it looks exactly like the word maniac in hebrew (its writen the same way as it sounds in english though its meaning is deferent in hebrew. it means something like ass-hole )

it looks like this
the one on top is in japanese
and the other is in hebrew

[Arilou]

LOL

To take another german word: "Bundesverfassungsgericht" Meaning something like "Federal Constitutional Court". It's the f's and s's that makes it fun :p

"Ich laufe sie"

"I run at her"? :confused:

[Jormungand]

im gona memorize all these big words then run up to sombody and start sreaming them

[whispering]

Utrikesdepartementspressekreterare
nordästersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranlä ggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskuss ionsinläggsförberedelsearbeten

[4letterwords]

actually renegade, the A in america is more like the one in hebrew. Technically in japanese you wrote "Imerika"

Close enough though :P

[Animeband]

LOL

To take another german word: "Bundesverfassungsgericht" Meaning something like "Federal Constitutional Court". It's the f's and s's that makes it fun :p



"I run at her"? :confused:


Haha, I meant "Ich liebe dich" :P

I was half asleep when I posted that.

[Alphonse v.2]

I would love to learn something as long as I didn't have to spend more then 5 minutes at it, so I am kinda limited by the things I do, and want to do.

[renegade]

actually renegade, the A in america is more like the one in hebrew. Technically in japanese you wrote "Imerika"

Close enough though :P
oh yeah, hehe

ill fix that
edit: -fixed :)

[Roxie]

Norwegien is absolutely nutty cute.

I saw the movie "The Inherientence" at our school's movie theater and the spellings were crazy!! Prouducktion and things like that, its almost phonetic in its spellings.

[Arilou]

That's because Norwegians reform their language about once every decade or so :p