• Redredme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    402·
    2 个月前

    I still find it weird that the word daddy, you know, the word you lovingly use as a child for your father also has a very sexual other use.

    I dont know what you guys do or did with your dad when you where little but this is just beyond crazy.

    Or does the entire US population has oudipus complex?

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
    372·
    2 个月前

    Dutch words in general are insane. My favorite is Schildpad=turtle. Which literally means “shield Toad”

    • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      50·
      2 个月前

      Exact same usage in German: Schildkröte.

      But its not like the English language doesn’t do the exact same thing.

      Most languages: Ananas

      English: pineapple

        • umbraroze@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 个月前

          Gets even weirder in Finnish, because it’s “kilpikonna”. Someone in ye olde times just straight up translated the Swedish name. Got none of the Indo-European roots in sight, but it still makes sense. Vaguely toady creature that has shields!

          (Only problem are the homonyms. “kilpi” also means registration plate, and “konna” also means “villain, thief”. So every time some random person goes around nicking plates off cars, the journalists think they are very clever again, even when the joke has been made before numerous times. Poor turtles! They don’t deserve this!)

        • petersr@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          Jokes on you, in Danish it is “Skildpadde”. “Padde” is toad, sure, but “skild” doesn’t really make any sense!

          (Perhaps it is an ancient Danish word for shield (skjold), but no one would use it)

        • Shou@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25·
          2 个月前

          Apple used to be the general word for fruit. Hence why so many languages call potatoes “earth apple” or oranges a form of “yellow apple” or “applesin”

    • beansbeansbeans@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 个月前

      Dutch is so whimsical. I personally giggle at winkelwagen. Winkel = shop, wagen = cart. Also, love that they say helaas pindakaas, meaning “that’s too bad”, but if literally translated means “unfortunately, peanut butter.”

      • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 个月前

        Pindakaas literally translates to peanut cheese. IIRC someone trademark protected the word meaning peanut butter, thereby forcing everyone else to call it kaas (cheese) instead?!

          • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 个月前

            EDIT: Had not seen your edit before i posted this. Though both sources agree on the protected word, mine does not mention Suriname in any way. It sounds like a good theory, but could also be coincidental that the same word was chosen, couldn’t it?

            –

            Apparently, I stand (a bit) corrected. According to this dutch source, the dutch word for butter (boter) could only be used for products containing real (dairy) butter.

            Here’s a machine-translated and quickly edited (to make sense) version:

            In 1948, the first jar of peanut butter was marketed in the Netherlands, but it was not allowed to be called peanut butter. Butter was a name that was specifically registered for real butter. So only butter was allowed to be called butter. Other types of butter were called margarine. And so, another name had to be thought of.

            […] Pinderkaas was compared to leverkaas (“liver cheese”). That is also a sandwich spread that does not contain any cheese at all, but does have cheese (kaas) in its name.

            • subtext@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 个月前

              Ah so similar to Oreo “crème,” because “cream” is a protected word in the US

      • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        That works doubly if you’re talking to someone with peanut allergy who’s asking what was in that cake while choking.

    • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      It’s the same in many other languages, it’s not a good example of Dutch being silly.

    • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      Something I like about the language is the homonyms.
      Like pad means both toad and path, but then you have a voetpad (foot path/ foot toad), fietspad(cycling path/ bicycle toad) or a zebrapad (zebra crossing/ zebra toad).

      The latter ones don’t exist, just to be clear :)

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 个月前

    We all know Dutch isn’t real, it’s a prank played by the Dutch people on the rest of the world.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    This translation is off. The Dutch translation is too nice compared to what the English is trying to convey.

    Translating it back it would mean “Hit me dad”

    A more literal Dutch translation of the first sentence would be “Geef me kletsen pappie”

  • Bob@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    2 个月前

    Alternative caption: Google Translate is not a serious translator.