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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #90 on: June 11, 2013, 04:58:43 AM »
to bad only part of that is danish

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #91 on: June 11, 2013, 10:08:38 AM »
Yesterday on my 101.7 km cycling trip I read a sign about some bro work, then I realized that the Danish word "bro" means "bridge".

Bro work sounds like an interesting job though.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #92 on: June 11, 2013, 12:09:10 PM »
i was going to make a joke about how close that was to kPa/atm but then i got lazy

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #93 on: September 02, 2013, 12:49:19 PM »
The Danish word "brand" means "fire".

"Brandfare" means "fire hazard".

("Fare" means "danger"/"hazard")

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #94 on: September 02, 2013, 02:28:28 PM »
Danish has a really strange phonology. Just an observation. :P

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #95 on: September 17, 2013, 10:25:36 AM »
The Danish word "agurk" means "cucumber".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #96 on: September 30, 2013, 12:58:32 PM »
The Danish word "save" means to saw.

This fact always bothered me when playing Pokémon back when I was 6-7 years old. I couldn't understand why you would "saw" the game. It didn't help that the other people I knew at the time also pronounced it in Danish as if we were actually sawing the game.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #97 on: September 30, 2013, 04:44:02 PM »
when i was like 5 - 7 and i would play a video game at my friend's house we came to the conclusion that 'retry' was /ritri/ (re-tree) when there was some message prompt, and had no idea what it meant, and we always had problems with it idk how that worked out because at some point we must have stopped trying

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #98 on: September 30, 2013, 08:24:59 PM »

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #99 on: October 01, 2013, 02:17:59 AM »
Kol, good to see that you English-speaking people have also had trouble with games.

Some other things:

- Another person many years ago came to the conclusion that the word "cancel" was pronounced "shangel" ("a" like in father)
- I didn't know what it meant when Pokémon said that the move I used couldn't be used against the enemy (it was resistant or something), this meant that I would keep using it over and over in some battles because I just thought it was failing. :-[
- There was a move in Pokémon called "drill peck", sort of similar to two danish words "drille" (tease) and "pik" (d*ck), so some person called the move "drillepik". Wut.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #100 on: October 01, 2013, 03:41:05 AM »

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #101 on: October 01, 2013, 04:43:29 AM »
d*ck

woah man, there are limits. You're not supposed to swear on this forum you sick monster.

Well, all I have to say was that the Danish word "and" means duck.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #102 on: October 04, 2013, 07:02:21 AM »
In Denmark, "Buster" is a name.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #103 on: October 04, 2013, 07:18:26 AM »
Buster Sikkel

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #104 on: October 17, 2013, 11:22:42 AM »
The Danish word "slap" means loose/lax/weak.

According to my dictionary, the Danish word "slaraffenland" means "land of milk and honey".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #105 on: November 03, 2013, 11:16:28 AM »
The Danish word "stem" means "to vote".

In Soviet Russia, communism stems from you.

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #106 on: November 07, 2013, 01:17:57 PM »
The Danish word "due" means "pigeon"/"dove".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #107 on: November 13, 2013, 05:40:54 AM »
The Danish word "skin" means "light", as in solskin = sunshine or måneskin = moonlight.
"Skinne" means "to shine" or "rail".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #108 on: December 06, 2013, 12:03:53 AM »
The Danish "at taste" means "to type".

Jeg tastede denne besked på et tastatur.
I tasted this message on a keyboard.
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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #109 on: December 06, 2013, 04:49:35 AM »
i still haven't figured out whether this thread is real danish or if bla is trolling everyone

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #110 on: December 06, 2013, 05:41:15 AM »
ok that one is the most believable one yet because sh-> sk in Scandinavian languages


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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #112 on: December 06, 2013, 11:47:59 AM »
ÆÅØ

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #113 on: December 06, 2013, 12:30:16 PM »
The Danish word "bog" means "book".

The Danish word "bug" means "stomach". (rarely used though, "mave" is more common)

"Jeg hugger din bug." would mean "I cut your stomach."

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #114 on: December 06, 2013, 12:49:27 PM »
plot twist: bla writes all the danish wikipedia pages.

anyways i read a bog in my bug today

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #115 on: December 07, 2013, 09:02:41 AM »
The Danish word "far" means "father".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #116 on: December 15, 2013, 11:23:04 AM »
The Danish word "rig" means "rich".

Let's stop the rigging. >:D

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #117 on: December 17, 2013, 09:22:20 AM »
In Danish, multiple-word nouns have their words stuck together. For example "koordinattransformationsmatricen" means "the coordinate transformation matrix".

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #118 on: December 25, 2013, 01:58:50 PM »
The Danish word "leg" means "play" (a noun as in children playing). The English word "game" in Danish would be "spil" though (computer game = computerspil).

But you can't leg a spil or spil a leg. Either you spil a spil (spiller et spil) or you leg a leg (leger en leg).

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Re: Bla's Danish Lessons
« Reply #119 on: January 01, 2014, 07:03:21 AM »
The Danish word "eventuel" means "possible".
eventuelt = possibly