Author Topic: Bla's Danish Lessons (Read 106042 times)

blotz · « **Reply #90 on:** June 11, 2013, 04:58:43 AM »

to bad only part of that is danish

Bla · « **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.

vh · « **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

Bla · « **Reply #93 on:** September 02, 2013, 12:49:19 PM »

The Danish word "brand" means "fire".

"Brandfare" means "fire hazard".

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

deoxy99 · « **Reply #94 on:** September 02, 2013, 02:28:28 PM »

Danish has a really strange phonology. Just an observation.

Bla · « **Reply #95 on:** September 17, 2013, 10:25:36 AM »

The Danish word "agurk" means "cucumber".

Bla · « **Reply #96 on:** September 30, 2013, 12:58:32 PM »

The Danish word "save" means to saw.

This fact always bothered me when playing PokÃ©mon 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.

atomic7732 · « **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

FiahOwl · « **Reply #98 on:** September 30, 2013, 08:24:59 PM »

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Bla · « **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 PokÃ©mon 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 PokÃ©mon called "drill peck", sort of similar to two danish words "drille" (tease) and "pik" (d*ck), so some person called the move "drillepik". Wut.

FiahOwl · « **Reply #100 on:** October 01, 2013, 03:41:05 AM »

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Bla · « **Reply #101 on:** October 01, 2013, 04:43:29 AM »

Quote from: Bla on October 01, 2013, 02:17:59 AM

d*ck

Quote from: FiahOwl on October 01, 2013, 03:41:05 AM

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.

Bla · « **Reply #102 on:** October 04, 2013, 07:02:21 AM »

In Denmark, "Buster" is a name.

atomic7732 · « **Reply #103 on:** October 04, 2013, 07:18:26 AM »

Buster Sikkel

Bla · « **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".

Bla · « **Reply #105 on:** November 03, 2013, 11:16:28 AM »

The Danish word "stem" means "to vote".

In Soviet Russia, communism stems from you.

Bla · « **Reply #106 on:** November 07, 2013, 01:17:57 PM »

The Danish word "due" means "pigeon"/"dove".

Bla · « **Reply #107 on:** November 13, 2013, 05:40:54 AM »

The Danish word "skin" means "light", as in solskin = sunshine or mÃ¥neskin = moonlight.
"Skinne" means "to shine" or "rail".

Bla · « **Reply #108 on:** December 06, 2013, 12:03:53 AM »

The Danish "at taste" means "to type".

Jeg tastede denne besked pÃ¥ et tastatur.
I tasted this message on a keyboard.

vh · « **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

Darvince · « **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

Bla · « **Reply #111 on:** December 06, 2013, 11:37:21 AM »

Darvince · « **Reply #112 on:** December 06, 2013, 11:47:59 AM »

Ã†Ã…Ã˜

Bla · « **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."

vh · « **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

Bla · « **Reply #115 on:** December 07, 2013, 09:02:41 AM »

The Danish word "far" means "father".

Bla · « **Reply #116 on:** December 15, 2013, 11:23:04 AM »

The Danish word "rig" means "rich".

Let's stop the rigging.

Bla · « **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".

Bla · « **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).

Bla · « **Reply #119 on:** January 01, 2014, 07:03:21 AM »

The Danish word "eventuel" means "possible".
eventuelt = possibly