Teach me your language

[Buddy]

On the more SFW side of things.

In Swedish hello is hallå but most people just use hej.

Thank you is tack.

Cheers is skål.

The only extra letters in the Swedish alphabet are å, ä, and ö

[Buddy]

There is a wonderful YouTube user who teaches Swedish:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GoSwedish

[xXxWashburnxXx]

In Kentucky the letter G is often left off of words ending in ing.

[Buddy]

In Kentucky the letter G is often left off of words ending in ing.

Yea we call that the lazy g. You hear it a lot in jag, mig, and sometimes idag.

[Gawen]

Wotcher is a corruption of What cheer?, a medieval greeting which originally asked 'what's happening that's good?'.  I don't think it's been understood by most speakers since around Shakespeare's time.

You fell into that one all on you're own...ye olde Git...*laffin*

[Amicale]

Wotcher is a corruption of What cheer?, a medieval greeting which originally asked 'what's happening that's good?'.  I don't think it's been understood by most speakers since around Shakespeare's time.

You fell into that one all on you're own...ye olde Git...*laffin*

I'm very familiar with 'Wotcher', as is anyone who's ever been a fan of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. *grin* (it's particularly used in 'Wyrd Sisters', which is a hilarious parody of Macbeth)

Ali, I loved your attempt at the pronunciation! I wouldn't have done any better!

[Ali]

"Vi skåler for våre venner og de som vi kjenner,
og de som vi ikke kjenner dem skiter vi i!"
http://vocaroo.com/?media=vKnxKsCiHHEQ9FIcb

A toast to all our friends and those that we know,
and of those we do not no we don't give a shit.

My favourite norwegian toast.

That's a pretty good toast.  My grandpa has a pretty good toast that he uses

"Here's to you, and here's to me.  I pray we never disagree.  But should we ever disagree, to hell with you, here's to me."

[The Magic Pudding]

"Here's to you, and here's to me.  I pray we never disagree.  But should we ever disagree, to hell with you, here's to me."

I like that, you'd have to do it early on though, even "Take what you can get / Give nothing back," can be hard to remember after a while.

[Wessik]

Hmmm... Should I...?

Dein kaebe cheute sesein, fuhle...
Why certainly, sir, I do agree with your idea in the utmost as a paragon of virtue and efficiency. Thank you sir.

Ich halte die meurenlusse.
I am taking an extremely long shower. Don't bother me.

Die steunen de dein ische maedste muchreule mit die otterlahden.
Of course your daughter is chaste.

>:D

(-Y-)_/`

[philosoraptor]

Wessik, du bist boshaft! ;-)

I've always enjoyed Scheisse passiert, which is the German equivalent of shit happens.  And of course schadenfreude, which has no English equivalent, but breaks down to the pleasure you get in observing someone else's misfortune-especially if they had it coming!

L'esprit de l'escalier is a French expression that literally translates to "the spirit of the staircase".  It refers to the phenomenon of thinking of the perfect comeback to something only after you've already walked away.

[history_geek]

schadenfreude, which has no English equivalent, but breaks down to the pleasure you get in observing someone else's misfortune-especially if they had it coming!

To us the equivelant would be "vahingonilo", with "vahinko" meaning a missfortune or accident, and "ilo" being joy. There's actaully a saying in Finnish that "Vahingonilo on paras ilo" - "The joy at someone (elses) missfortune is the best joy".