Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
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@NatureMC @Pascal_dher @waldschnecke @randahl
Instinctual, no cognitive effort to recall and time-effective system 1 vs deliberate, brain cognitive effort required to recall and slower system 2.@dahukanna I have now mastered the French numbering system sufficiently to write cheques, but I always count in my head in German to save my brain for more important things. 🤭 Or I use the Belgian French ...
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl Randahl I wonder why
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl There was a Swedish film festival in Delhi many years ago, and I remember some… consternation in the audience when the last frame said of some film said "SLUT" in big white letters on a black screen.
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@randahl may be they need to learn danish
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@dahukanna I have now mastered the French numbering system sufficiently to write cheques, but I always count in my head in German to save my brain for more important things. 🤭 Or I use the Belgian French ...
@NatureMC @Pascal_dher @waldschnecke @randahl
From practice and lived experience:
- More than 100 - can count with no effort in English
- less than 100 - can count with no effort in English and French.
- less than 50 - can count with no effort in English, French, Danish and German. -
@NatureMC @Pascal_dher @waldschnecke @randahl
From practice and lived experience:
- More than 100 - can count with no effort in English
- less than 100 - can count with no effort in English and French.
- less than 50 - can count with no effort in English, French, Danish and German. -
Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl here in Norway you can get a divine massage: https://www.godmassasje.no
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@randahl
As an arthouse cinema projectionist I learned that Danish and Swedish films end with an insult. I don't think they're calling the whole audience sluts, just that one person in row three. -
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl But you must concede that English native speakers often have difficulty with their own language, let alone another one.
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl I fart @ Gods elevator
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@randahl You are on to something!
I'm guessing "Din" means "your" (like Middle English "thine") and this sign displays your current speed?
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I'm guessing "Din" means "your" (like Middle English "thine") and this sign displays your current speed?
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That's interesting! I guess if a filmmaker were half Russian, half Danish they would end their movie with "Crazy Slut".
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@randahl @cookingroffa in The Netherlands, Nutricia, a producer of a wide variety of foodstuff, including baby food, confused English speakers with this gem. Translation: mama, this/that one, that one, that one… Please
@pointysticksncoffee @randahl @cookingroffa I'm an American, as you know, and I live in a VERY Latino apartment buildiing. And they think it's all strange that I know Norwegian, but not Spanish. It's fun. And I was outside cleaning pillows. Fluffing them. And my neighbor is like "What you doing?" And I said "Beating my pute", and he's like "WHAT?!", because puta in Spanish is whore, but in Norwegian (and i believe in Danish) pute mean pillow. Which has now become an inside joke of the complex.
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Or the evergreen road signs "Fart kontrol"
@Gupperduck and the German parking exit wishing drivers to have a „Gute Fahrt“. @randahl
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
@randahl what about poor kittens?
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Examples that Danish is the most confusing language for English speakers:
In Denmark, when washing machines are done, their displays write, "Slut!", which means "Finished".
When someone enters an elevator, the display changes to "I fart", which means "On the move".
Tourists have difficulty finding a nice WC, because the signs often say "Bad toilet", meaning "Bathroom and toilet".
In lobbies with multiple elevators, one sign may say, "Gods elevator", which means "Freight elevator".
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@randahl@mastodon.social it might have been "Kan jeg sidde ned" that's another really goofy one
Yeah. Before trying to learn a language, I spend time listening to the sounds deciding if I can say them or if they are differentiated enough.
So anyway, Japanese is the most friendly language to me because of the limited sounds. I attempted Hungarian for the challenge and I ran into all the word forms that were too inconsistent… and how much it felt like every single word was very unique… but no gender! Which made me quit French fastest despite friend thinking I was natural -
Yeah. Before trying to learn a language, I spend time listening to the sounds deciding if I can say them or if they are differentiated enough.
So anyway, Japanese is the most friendly language to me because of the limited sounds. I attempted Hungarian for the challenge and I ran into all the word forms that were too inconsistent… and how much it felt like every single word was very unique… but no gender! Which made me quit French fastest despite friend thinking I was natural
