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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

NO FARTING ON THE ROADS

[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

yeah all three. we have none of those roadsigns.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 16 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.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

Fart is speed Smell is impact

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Smäll is impact but it's pronounced smell.

[-] [email protected] 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.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When I visited Germany I laughed hard at every exit sign: Ass fart german for exit is ausfahrt

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Dam that's funny what's her number

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fahrt zum Kunstmuseum

T: Ride to the art museum

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Sweden is very real.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

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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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Being married is gift as well.

[-] [email protected] 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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"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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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Probably 3/3 Norwegian signs as mentioned.

Usually, in the context of traffic, the word 'Hastighet' would be used, which roughly works out to be 'Hastiness' in English.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

For example "mist" in German means "dung" or "crap". Imagine what a German must think when they see a shower head for sale advertise its "mist" setting.

https://www.linguee.com/german-english/translation/mist.html

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Last week i passed by the Danish city Middelfart.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"Dot" in Swedish is prick.

You're welcome.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Farts will never not be funny.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Saatan, perkele.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

what about shart.

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