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[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Joke hinges on English "slut" being spelled like the Norwegian word for end, "slutt", but it actually isn't.

Swedes being very silent over in the corner...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I took two years of Norwegian in university, and in my first-ever class, tthe prof, a lovely woman originally from Sweden, brought us cookies.

One girl didn't make it to the second class because sis could literally not say 'småkaker' without bursting into laughter.

[-] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago

Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).

Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven't seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

'Oh boy, I can't wait for that new indie action film "Fullført Informatikk" to release!'

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

lmao it even looks like cheeks spreading

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let it loose before you get on the bus.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

You're on a bus with others, you all ate too much beans, and it turns out there's a bomb on the bus that goes off if it detects too high fart smell.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Another noggie here - Yes, they're named after the effect they have on your digestive system after passing them at too high speeds.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

As a native English/German speaker, this sign just makes so much sense. Very onomatopoeic. I love it

Speed Bump just doesn't hit as hard

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Sounds like you need

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.

Turns out, neither would Google translate

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

The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Informatikk sounds pretty nuts, too

edit: I learned a new word today

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

I totally read it as “datakink”…

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

The first one is real but not the second.

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

It probably is real. Google Translate gets updated and translations change over time. It used to translate “inglasat uterum” (Swedish) as “glazed uterus.”

It means glass-encased veranda.

It no longer translates it to that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I had to check, the Finnish word "kinkkukiusaus" which is a ham and potato casserole, still translates to "ham temptation"

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn, never knew I was a graduate computer science.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

all Norwegian movies end with a reminder i am a slut

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

Im about to become a slut in a few months.

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

Funny thing I was already a slut before I earned my computer science degree.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers' voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say "graduate computer science". To me it reads more like commanding someone to "quit computer science!", more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, "to complete one's education in computer science".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For completeness sake there's Low Saxon "Slunt", note the n, meaning "rag" as well as "disorderly, dirty person". If you want to use it call a woman promiscuous have the decency to use the diminutive. Not related to German "Schlund", gullet, that'd be Slunk. I can't find any proper etymology but my guess would be that English lost the "n" at some point.

Funnier are words like Gröönhöker. That's the same roots as "green" and "hooker" but it's not what you think, it's someone who can hook you up with the green stuff, a greengrocer. Or the perfectly cromulent toponym Quickborn meaning "lively spring".

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

I prefer the unbreedable trucks.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Discussing language and using English to do so, is hysterically ironic. “Is that how you pronounce it? I’ve only ever seen it written!”

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

Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of "slut" to "sludd" in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

"Slutt" (means end) is not commonly used for "sludd" (means sleet), though. Never actually seen "sludd" spelled like that, but "slutt" meaning end is extremely common.

I wouldn't expect any Norwegian to read "slutt" and assume it meant sleet.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure, except the Norwegian spelling is "slutt". The pronunciation is a bit different from the English word "slut", the English one uses more of a ø-sound for the u. "sludd" is the Norwegian word for sleet, which is a mix of snow and water, this is even stated by your sources.

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

Where did you get that the English pronunciation had ø-sound?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Experience with English and Norwegian (should probably have sourced it), but also from wikitionary. There are some audio examples here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slut

IPA for the word "slut" is /slʌt/, the upside-down V sounds like this. While not exactly the same sound as Ø, the audio examples on wikitionary for "slut" sounds closer to Ø for me, as I use Ø daily in Norwegian.

Edit:

Norwegian uses this sound for the "u" in "slutt", the full IPA for it is /ʂlʉtː/. For some reason there isn't IPA for "slutt" in Bokmål, but the Nynorsk pronunciation is the more or less the same. Sadly there isn't an audio recording of the word on wikitionary, but it has a double consonant which is a fun rabbit hole in Norwegian.

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

That’s suprising, I always thought it would be similar to ö in Finnish where I’m from. And swedish ö as in öl and danish ø as in smørrebrød.

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

I'm nowhere near being an expert on languages and phonology, but I think the Ø-sounds in the Nordic languages are more or less the same. With some tiny differences on pressure, pitch, and maybe tone. Close enough to be considered the same in my opinion. It probably boils down to what would mostly be accent and dialect differences between the languages.

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

Yeah, imagine words having different meanings in different languages

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

slutt is a verb here

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

Du lukter dridtgodt.

Hjemmebrent.

Takk.

Dra til helvete.

That's the extent of my Norwegian. I hear it's all you need really.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Noggie here; You've got the important ones. Meet me next year for Norwegian 201 - Phrases to use when your karsk tastes weird.

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

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

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

The lecturer and TA's for a university course combined tend to get referred to as the "fagstab".

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