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Swedish to English meaning in words

Started by g6cad, September 20, 2008, 04:12:57 PM

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G6Cad

http://www.avigsidan.com/avigsidan/avigt024.html

The Swedish words to the left and English to the right
I laugh pretty hard when i read this...  but it's a raw translation  :2funny: :2funny:

IchBin

I suppose it would be funnier if I knew if the swedish words were actual sayings or something? Some of the english words were funny, but I felt like I was missing something.

Thurnok

This one doesn't make sense... the Swedish words are similar to English words anyway, so the last word here they borked up as far as I'm concerned:

Välkommen till smörgåsbordet! --> Welcome to the buttergoosetable!

Where they get buttergoosetable from I have no clue, as smorgashborg has been used in the English language for a long time, and stems from Sweden, but the Encarta lists it as follows:

smor·gas·bord [ smáwrgəss bàwrd ] (plural smor·gas·bords)
noun 

Definition:
1. buffet meal: a meal served buffet style, consisting of a large variety of hot and cold dishes
2. restaurant serving buffet: a restaurant featuring a smorgasbord
3. variety: a wide variety ( informal )

[Late 19th century. < Swedish smörgåsbord, literally "bread-and-butter table"]

So these guys are wack!  ;)
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bloc

The pun here is probably that many of them will - when broken up in single words - be rather funny to translate.

"smør"=butter, "gås"=goose and "bord"=table.

Crip

those guys sounds & looks a bit like us Rednecks :P
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G6Cad

Quote from: Bloc on September 20, 2008, 08:28:03 PM
The pun here is probably that many of them will - when broken up in single words - be rather funny to translate.

"smør"=butter, "gås"=goose and "bord"=table.

Head on the nail :)

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Brandon05

Learning another culture is so much fun and challenging at times.  I don't even know how to pronounce those words lol(the swedish ones).

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