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  • Hjalmar@feddit.nutoComic Strips@lemmy.worldIf German was English
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    6 days ago

    German is weird in more ways, namely word ordering

    Sie dürfen nicht ein Feuerzeug mit ins Flugzeug nehmen

    You’re not allowed to a fire stuff with you in flight stuff bring

    But all languages are weird. Here’s some french for you

    qu’est-ce que c’est?

    I don’t have the knowledge needed to translate this properly but it’s something like “wh’is-at what that is” (its the way they say “what is that”)

    And Swedish, my native language

    I eftermiddags åt jag jordgubbar. Nu ska jag äta middag.

    This after middle day ate i soil old men. Now I’m going to eat middle day. (This afternoon I ate strawberrys. Now I’m going to eat dinner)

    Given that Swedish is my native language I’d also like to inform you that the English word “smorgasbord” is completely ridiculous. It’s literally just the Swedish word “smörgåsdsbord” but without å and ö, so it’s pronounced completely wrong. The word smörgås is however also a bit weird, it literally means “butter goose”. So your English word smorgasbord means “butter goose table”. Also window means wind eye, it’s the old Swedish word “vindöga”