The anything thread.

[Sierra1]

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It didn't like that link.

 

[RIVA]

Apologies . Hopefully this one works

 

[bimota]

 

[Sierra1]

Apologies . Hopefully this one works

Or gargle . . . .

 

[Jiivee]

PERKELE!
This strong Finnish curse word tells all my thoughts when I look out the window today. I can't even tell anymore if this hellish winter is coming or going!?
So... Tenere stays in the garage, I walk to the nearest pub and drink my head full!!

 

[Jiivee]

Feeling much better now!

 

[Wenisgoodenuf]

Many of us feel your pain. Spring will come

 

[Sierra1]

Well, the Finns must be a nice bunch of folks. Google says that your "strong curse word" is devil. Makes the rest of us look like savages.

 

[Jiivee]

Yes, I'm a little drunk.
Sierra1, yep, google translates that "perkele" means "devil"? To us, it doesn't mean that or really anything else. We just say "perkele" when things don't go well. I can't say it better but we say it in almost every sentence.

Then someone says that we Finns are the happiest nation in the world... I wouldn't be quite sure about that?

 

[Sierra1]

I figured that something got lost in translation.

 

[Tenman]

 

[Checkswrecks]

Feeling much better now!
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At least you know your beer will stay cold.

 

[fac191]

I figured that something got lost in translation.

We havent finished teaching you'all English yet.

 

[Sierra1]

We havent finished teaching you'all English yet.

I had to get a Texas to English dictionary when I moved here.

 

[EricV]

Perkele is used much like mɛʀd in France, dammit in the US or bugger in the UK. General purpose F words.

Side note, who knew there is actually a Wiki for Finnish profanity? I guess everything is on the internet if you look in the right places!

 

[Sierra1]

I always use merd(e) when I don't want to get in trouble for calling someone a do-do head. Damnit doesn't even get censored on TV anymore. But bugger? Yup, straight up F-bomb.
Fun fact: when I was a kid delivering newspapers, I had a bicycle trailer that was called a Bugger.

 

[EricV]

The Utah to Mississippi transition was a little challenging at first. Accent mostly. Oregon to Utah was not as bad. Mostly local names mis-pronounced. They do that here too. Grates on me to no end when they pronounce Saltillo as Sall Till O instead of Saa tio per Spanish, which is where the name came from. Or call a shopping cart a 'buggy', and are too lazy/apathetic to return it to the "cart return" that is labeled that way, so just leave it in the middle of the parking lot.

 

[Sierra1]

Yup. There's local town, Rio Vista. Some pronounce it as R-eye-O Vista. And my town, Joshua. Pronounced Josh-oo-way.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Worcester Mass is generally pronounced Wooster.

 

[scott123007]

Another f%&*^up pronunciation is "Greenwich"