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[Ali]

I'll take Swedish.  I would happily curse in every language.    What's it mean?  Is it just pronounced like fan in English?  Maybe we should start a spin off thread where you can all teach me to curse in other languages.

[Buddy]

It means fuck. And if you want a few other Nordic curse words, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DAkJf0md1kG8

[Guardian85]

"Helvete" is also a good strong norwegian curse word. Very commonly used by us northern norwegians. Literally means "hell". Very useful if you hurt yourself.

[history_geek]

I'll take Swedish.  I would happily curse in every language.    What's it mean?  Is it just pronounced like fan in English?  Maybe we should start a spin off thread where you can all teach me to curse in other languages.

Simply use the "Han" from Han Solo, but replace the H with an F, and you get you're close

It means fuck. And if you want a few other Nordic curse words, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DAkJf0md1kG8

Bah, he didn't say Perkele properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQuREhWe8o

Notice the difference in the way "r" is pronounced in Finnish. Now try to tell me "faen" sounds better!

Also, there's an additional bonus in Finnish, because you can do this: Voi Perkeleen Perkleen Perkeleen PERKELE (ad infinatum)!

And for other Finnish swearing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xuv9RVss_Y&feature=related

[Ali]

It means fuck. And if you want a few other Nordic curse words, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DAkJf0md1kG8

Faen tallah (sp?)!  Yay, love it.  I especially like when he really goes to town at 0:23.    To my American ears it sounds like playing a record backwards. 

[Ali]

"Helvete" is also a good strong norwegian curse word. Very commonly used by us northern norwegians. Literally means "hell". Very useful if you hurt yourself.

Pronunciation?  Hel-veet?  Hel-vee-teh?  Hel-veh-teh?

[Asmodean]

"Helvete" is also a good strong norwegian curse word. Very commonly used by us northern norwegians. Literally means "hell". Very useful if you hurt yourself.

Faen og dobbelfaen og satan og jævla dritt-(Insert the object of frustration) og den forpulte (Insert whos fault it is if applicable)

THAT is useful when you hurt yourself.

[Asmodean]

Hel-veh-teh?

...More or less. It's not how I would transcribe it, but close.

[Ali]

"Helvete" is also a good strong norwegian curse word. Very commonly used by us northern norwegians. Literally means "hell". Very useful if you hurt yourself.

Faen og dobbelfaen og satan og jævla dritt-(Insert the object of frustration) og den forpulte (Insert whos fault it is if applicable)

THAT is useful when you hurt yourself.

Pronunciation (and translation) please.  I'm liking what I have learned about Norwegian so far,  but if you make me try to translate it in my own terrifying American accent, I totally will.

"Fahn oh dobbelfahn oh SATAN oh havla DREET ASMO oh den forPOOHLTAY Asmo."

And so forth.

ETA:  In my own awful accent:

http://vocaroo.com/?media=v9V3htq9pow1M55o4

[Asmodean]

Fuck and double fuck and satan and bastard-(Insert frustrating bits, preferably with another curse attached, like dritt */shit) and the overfucked (Insert whos fault, preferably with another curse word attached, like rævhøl */asshole)

Transcripting pronounciation across languages is a fucking art, but generally, words like satan are not pronounced "seiten" here - the transcription would therefor pretty much be "satan", with the same kind of sound as "bAstard"

[Asmodean]

jævla - j, not h. As in Yemen.

[Ali]

Could you somehow record it?

I have a coworker who is Norwegian.  He told me to say "Yi elskor die."

http://vocaroo.com/?media=vHAmHrNnibpan7k7s

What does that mean?

[Asmodean]

I love you, I guess. Jeg elsker deg - Yai elsker dei

Look to bAstard for a and Yemen for j (More or less)

[Tank]

It means fuck. And if you want a few other Nordic curse words, check this out: http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3DAkJf0md1kG8

If nothing else this demonstrates the futility of age varification on the internet 

[Ihateyoumike]

Since we're all posting pictures of ourselves... Here's one of me I took on my new iPhone. Of course it looks like a drawing cause being a new phone, I've messed around with all my crazy apps and everything and apparently haven't gotten any real pictures of me on there yet. But the app I took this picture with is just too damn cool. Maybe I'll get around to getting an actual picture of me sometime.