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[–] troed@fedia.io 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least two, maybe all three, of those photos are from Norway.

But yeah, we have the same word. I do believe the fact that our trains have "slutstation" to be funnier.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah all three. we have none of those roadsigns.

[–] Nikko882@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Left one is Norwegian. E55 and E47 are not in Norway, but in Sweden and Denmark (Also would be "fartskontroll" in Norwegian). Max is spelt "maks" in Norwegian (Also it would be a compound word "maksfart"). It is possible that the two images on the right are fake, though.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i think they're danish. sweden never uses "fart" to denote speed on signage, instead opting for "hastighet", and we also just use an image of a camera on the speed control sign.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Farts on Troll is my new fantasy metal band name

[–] Forester@pawb.social 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not the fart that kills you. It's the smell

Fart is speed Smell is impact

[–] Flyingpeakock@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Smäll is impact but it's pronounced smell.

[–] Forester@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I barely can communicate effectively in English sometimes. If I'm lucky I might get German across. ;p. Those are the only two words in swedish that I know.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's from a Norwegian skit, so it's smell in this case

[–] lazyViking@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I dont think ~~it's from a skit. I think it's from an interview of rally driver Petter Solberg who is famously bad at English (and probably pumped full of adrenaline after a race)~~

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago
[–] drre@feddit.org 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i don't know swedish at all but: in german there is the word "Fahrt" which may be understood as journey, but may also be used in a phrase like "wir machen zwölf Knoten Fahrt" (our speed is twelve knots).

(No idea why I'm writing this, but I'm not gonna delete it now)

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

When I visited Germany I laughed hard at every exit sign: Ass fart

collapsed inline mediagerman for exit is ausfahrt

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wolf knoten

I had a friend who liked to talk about her 'wolf knot' periodically. I still do, but we talk about her current exploits more lol

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Dam that's funny what's her number

[–] three@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fahrt zum Kunstmuseum

T: Ride to the art museum

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I will never tire of telling Americans that to a lot of British people, "President Trump" sounds like "President Fart", and that it makes no sense that you would elect someone called that, even if they weren't stupid, senile, shit their pants in public and batshit crazy.

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

End is slut. One that gets pointed out often is that terminal/final stop is slutstation

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

It's really important to fartkontrol when you go to the slutstation.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 14 points 1 week ago

I first discovered "Fart kontrol" when driving in Denmark in Euro truck sim 2. That was an amusing moment.

[–] patchworkneuron@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also Swedish: semester means 'a vacation' and gift means 'poison'

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

gift means poison in a lot of northern European languages, actually. Fun fact: that's because 'gift' (in the sense of 'present') was used as a euphemism for poison so much, the original meaning faded eventually

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Being married is gift as well.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fart, her til, mein teil.

what does it mean in this context? It looks like the emergency stop button, what does it have to do with speed?

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is the panel outside of the elevator. "Fart" means speed and "I fart" means that the elevator is moving. Hertil means "to here" and is the button you use to summon the elevator to your floor.

Mein teil is when you have a friend over and you feel like barbeque, but the fridge is empty.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I fart" means "in movement", just an indicator that it's on its way, and "hertil" is as you guessed a combination of "her til" meaning "to here", that's the button you press to call the elevator.

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[–] Michal@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not like English doesn't have words that mean funny in other languages 🤷‍♂️

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[–] djmikeale@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

Last week i passed by the Danish city Middelfart.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

"Dot" in Swedish is prick.

You're welcome.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The polish word for luck is either "szczęście" or the more casual "fart"

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[–] Linkalee@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I found a Swedish candy at World Market called Skum Bananer. I'm going to be calling bananas "banan/bananer" for a long time.

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[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Farts will never not be funny.

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[–] Zealousideal_Fox_900@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cries in chose to learn Finnish instead of Swedish/Norweigan/Danish

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Saatan, perkele.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

If you had tried for Danish you would be crying twice as hard. Unless you're like Geordie or Scottish, then you might have had a chance.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The poster with “fart” and a bus coming out of an explosion behind Keanu lmao

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago
[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

what about shart.

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