I have heard it said that to live a rich life one should learn something new every day. Well I have been informed by my teenager that the Danish word for speed bump is Fartshumper and that the word for speed check is Fartkontrol. That’s two things.
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A pal who enjoys studying languages said "The “Speed” poster is actually Norwegian, but can still read it 🙂
“Get ready for rush hour”". Thought you might enjoy knowing this too!
It had me remembering something similarly funny in German, but forget what word. 🤔 See it on sides of buses I think.
Same word in other Germanic languages, just slightly different spelling. In Dutch we also have the word "vaart", although the movie is still called Speed.
Dutch: reliably the most humorous merge of modern German and modern English for completely legitimate linguistic history reasons.
I wouldn’t go so far as “every”, but several native Dutch speakers I’ve met (who also speak at least one if not both of English and German) do know this.
As an English speaker I was amused by these warning signs I encountered on a bike trip in Belgium, which referred to what we call a cattle guard in the US
PS, German does this all by itself some times, including my favorite English-German false cognate, pictured below. This is a WWII US Army surplus mustard gas bottle. It’s labeled “poison” (EN), “gift” (DE), and “veleno” (IT). (I have a couple, I use them to take batched cocktails to parties.)
My father told me about a norwegian ski jump announcer who had to translate his commentary into english on the fly and ended up saying something like "And there he flies with a with a lot of fart". I'm not totally sure it's a true story, but it's hilarious and I can totally see it happen for real.
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“Get ready for rush hour”". Thought you might enjoy knowing this too!
It had me remembering something similarly funny in German, but forget what word. 🤔 See it on sides of buses I think.
Fartplan is a timetable.
Bådfart is a boat trip.
Overfart is a crossing (of a lake, etc.)
I en fart is in a hurry.
...and when a train or elevator warns you it's going to be moving now, it might tell you "i fart". (But I'll blame the dog.)
I wouldn’t go so far as “every”, but several native Dutch speakers I’ve met (who also speak at least one if not both of English and German) do know this.
Meanwhile, down under in ‘Straya, we do it for science.
🎶 It’s a gas, gas, gas!
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