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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I double checked I'm not on 4chan.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago

For those who might not know, this is the final scene from Finding Nemo. In English, it says "Fin", a fun pun.

[–] ChillPill@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around the city keeping its speed over 50 and if it's speed dropped, it would explode. I think it was called "the bus that couldn't slow down"

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Honey, we just went over this. It's called Fart.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to fart around the city keeping its farts over 50 and if it's farts dropped, it would explode. I think it was called "the bus that couldn't slow down"

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

The bus that couldn't stop farting

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Old enough to remember.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

While the word "speed" indeed is "fart" in Norwegian, the movie "Speed" was released as "Speed" in Norway.

The poster is photoshoped, as one easily can tell by the premiere date in the bottom of the poster. The date "June 10" would've been written as "10. juni" in Norway.

Today, most movies not primarily marketed for children are released with their English titles in Norway. And back when the movies were translated to Norwegian, the titles were often not direct translations. In fact, the Norwegian Wikipedia-article for Speed makes an interesting claim about the the 1975 Japanese movie Speed was based on. While known in Japan as "Shinkansen daibakuha", and as "The Bullet Train" in English speaking countries, the article claims that the Norwegian title was "Expressen er lastet med...... dynamitt!", directly translated as "The Express is loaded with... dynamite!". I can't find any sources to support this claim, but it does follow the norm of translated titles of the time.

Other translated Norwegian film titles include "Airplane!" as "Hjelp, vi flyr!" (Help, we are flying!), "Die Hard" as "Aksjon skyskraper" (Operation Skyscraper), and "Deliverance" as "Piknik med døden" (Picnic with Death).

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They must've been pissed when the next die hard was in an airport.

They had the golden opportunity to name it "Aksjon flyplass" (Operation Airport), but went with Die Hard 2. But they returned (without a vengance) for the third Die Hard, which they named "Die Hard i New York" (Die Hard in New York). Similar to how "You Only Live Twice" was titled "James Bond i Japan" in Norway.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Sweden, we use the words "infart" and "utfart" to for entrance and exit respectively when using them in a car context.

[–] BroChiMinh@gehirneimer.de 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Corresponding words in German would be Einfahrt and Ausfahrt.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

recently got told by someone who was visiting Germany that they just passed by "the city of Ausfahrt"

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[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago
[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also other Germanic languages.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] remon@ani.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Origin

I timestamped it at the relevant clip, but I HIGHLY recommend watching the rest as well! 😁

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah the zionist Rachel Riley

Dammit! 🤬🤦

TIL

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

disgusting! look at those legs. not a single hair on them.

how the hell are we supposed to know she's a female?!

don't even get me started on how dainty those ankles are. I bet she's not even a dwarf.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Looks more like stupid sexy Cheery Littlebottom

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Oddly enough, that is Proto-Indo-European and not Germanic unless Sie das sauerkraut gegessen haben.

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago
[–] jxk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm more concerned about "røsh tid" personally.

[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

tid translates to time. Hour translates to time.

Enjoy your aneurism.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Another for you. In Denmark, we have bicycle traffic lights and they sometimes show you how long it'll take until the light is green. They say

Tid til grøn

Which is almost pronounced "til ti grøn"

Always makes me laugh a little

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

til ti grøn

As a non-Dane, what's funny about this?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tid is pronounced til, and til is pronounced ti

Idk, it's not much but I find it silly

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tid isn't prononounced "til".

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

To an English speaker it almost is, like I kinda said above?

Perhaps a bad anecdote

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's the reverse of Norwegian where "tid" is pronounced "tea"(english) and "til" is pronounced between "teal"(English) and "till"(english). The "d" is silent.

But the Danish pronunciation is a little confusing because the d in tid is pronounced and is done so like an English "L", at least in this instance while the "L" is silent.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This country makes me so confused sometimes. I do kinda love it here. I feel quite privileged to be able to spend a couple months in your lovely country.

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[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ah. My suggestion of an aneurysm was commenting on how i wrote the reply, not necessarily the translations themselves.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago

that is what i would ask him to autograph 100%

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Please tell me where's a Norwegian trailer where a gritty-voiced narrator says the title. Please please please please

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

"bilingual in 56 other languages"

Impressive.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I made a tutorial video for a twin stick and one of the dudes I was chatting with told me that my username means crude thing. Or something, it was a while ago.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Fart" synopsis:

Howard Payne gets on a fully packed bus he glued the windows and the doors shut right after he ate a lot of broccoli, cabbage, beans, etc., with the hopes of being able to extort $10 million from the police...

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

If you have a lighter handy it can help you go faster.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

How do you think he gets the extra propulsion to go so fast?

[–] quitenormal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You've obviously neverheard of the illustrious 8th century Norwegian King, Eystein the Fart.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sandy b farted so hard in this one

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