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Zil posted:Why do you have to tempt Mother Nature like that. It was prophesied 
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give that goose a cigarette
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Are there any other Spanish words that are this close but this badly far off? It makes me laugh every time, and I hope nobody ever learn to proofread for ñ.
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Jul 1, 2018 02:18
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It's a literal translation to "the anus of the woman" isn't it?
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Eat This Glob posted:It's a literal translation to "the anus of the woman" isn't it? the latin root of anus is annulus https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/annulus#Latin Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts also redirects here e: and the year so yeah, time is a flat circle
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SpacePig posted:Are there any other Spanish words that are this close but this badly far off? It makes me laugh every time, and I hope nobody ever learn to proofread for ñ. Probably every language has a "trap" word that can be mistranslated in a terrible way. Wasn't there a specific English word that kept being translated to Korean as "gently caress" because of it's pronunciation? There's French with coup de foudre(Love At First Sight) and coup de foutre(Cumshot) Portuguese has Coco(Coconut, the first syllable is stronger) and Cocô(Poop, the second syllable is stronger) The popular Japanese game Okami(A Great God). The not so popular Japanese word Okama(An offensive slur to gay or trans people)
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SpacePig posted:Are there any other Spanish words that are this close but this badly far off? It makes me laugh every time, and I hope nobody ever learn to proofread for ñ. Samuringa posted:Probably every language has a "trap" word that can be mistranslated in a terrible way. Wasn't there a specific English word that kept being translated to Korean as "gently caress" because of it's pronunciation? TLDR: Dude worked in PSYOP during the Kosovo campaign, driving around a truck with a speaker on top broadcasting "THE FIGHTING IN KOSOVO IS OVER", with some details about refugees coming home and how to get help from NATO. Translators were in short supply, so for the first month or so they had to rely on foreigners who'd learned the language from a book or their grandparents. Eventually, though, they did get a local, who pointed out that the broadcast was incorrect. Apparently in the local dialect, that word did not mean "fighting".
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SpacePig posted:Are there any other Spanish words that are this close but this badly far off? It makes me laugh every time, and I hope nobody ever learn to proofread for ñ. Embarazada sounds like it should mean "embarrassed," but it actually means pregnant. The verb cojer means to hail a cab (I think?) in Puerto Rico but it means to gently caress in Mexico.
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Jul 1, 2018 06:17
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Coger. Means "to take" in Spain, means "to gently caress" in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela (probably other places too). We have that in English. Tell someone from Australia you're rooting for them and you will get interesting responses.
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Jul 1, 2018 06:45
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AlbieQuirky posted:Coger. Means "to take" in Spain, means "to gently caress" in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela (probably other places too). In New Zealand "make a move" means "to start heading out" or whatever. Not so in the US.
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Jul 1, 2018 06:55
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Absurd Alhazred posted:In New Zealand "make a move" means "to start heading out" or whatever. Not so in the US. Apparently though among Kids These Days in the US "what's the move?" is something you ask to find out what clubs/parties people are going to tonight.
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The truth, only slightly less crazy, is that Jim Carrey is playing Dr Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:In New Zealand "make a move" means "to start heading out" or whatever. Not so in the US. Me and my friends have definitely been using “let’s make a move” to mean “let’s go” since I was a teenager and this was in Pennsylvania
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Schwül means humid in German. Schwul means gay. This was a never-ending source of entertainment in German class, because apparently a lot of Americans have trouble with the ü sound.
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darthbob88 posted:One subtle one is papa, which changes meaning significantly based on what gender you use for it. El Papa is the Pope, la papa is the potato. I think but can't confirm that some American T-shirt maker or something got caught by this and the año mixup above when they tried making a "Year of the Pope" shirt.
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Jul 1, 2018 13:28
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Aesop Poprock posted:Me and my friends have definitely been using “let’s make a move” to mean “let’s go” since I was a teenager and this was in Pennsylvania I stand corrected! 
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Jul 1, 2018 18:01
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Goddamnit, New York Times  https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/1013462423821570050
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The Ringer has a great write-up on this prank. All you cob nobblers should read it.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:07
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Taco Bell is officially America's favorite 'Mexican restaurant'
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Isn’t that like saying America’s Favorite Burger Restaurant is McDonalds? Of course it’s going to be the cheapest most available crap.
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Zesty posted:Isn’t that like saying America’s Favorite Burger Restaurant is McDonalds? Of course it’s going to be the cheapest most available crap. Yeah how could it not be? You mean the only national chain in the entire category beat out that one hole in the wall place in my small town with the killer tacos!?
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The Bloop posted:Yeah how could it not be?
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Zereth posted:I believe there were only six options in the poll, and they were all major chains. My point is that there are no other national chains unless you count Chili's as Mexican or some poo poo
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The Bloop posted:My point is that there are no other national chains
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It sounds very counter-intuitive, but the Inquisition did establish what we would consider the basic tenets of our court systems, like gathering evidence, examination of witnesses, a neutral arbiter etc. Prior to this system justice was extremely arbitrary. If someone accused you of wrongdoing, and they were more influential than you were, then you were generally guilty unless someone more important than the accuser vouched for you.
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Worst timeline confirmed.
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Lakedaimon posted:It sounds very counter-intuitive, but the Inquisition did establish what we would consider the basic tenets of our court systems, like gathering evidence, examination of witnesses, a neutral arbiter etc. Wasn't the Inquisition established partly to curb vigilante witch-hunting that was starting to make the Church look bad?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't the Inquisition established partly to curb vigilante witch-hunting that was starting to make the Church look bad? Sort of, but the thought process was more "there is no such thing as witches, you superstitious idiots, please turn legit heretics and demon worshippers over to the appropriate authorities and leave the others alone". Although it's also kind of hard to nail down the motivation of "the Church" when e.g. the German bishops have always been fighting with the vatican over every single thing.
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I remember reading that they only got the idea to go after conversos when some rear end in a top hat jew wrote them in the hopes they'll ban a rival's book.
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By popular demand posted:I remember reading that they only got the idea to go after conversos when some rear end in a top hat jew wrote them in the hopes they'll ban a rival's book. Did you read that on The Daily Stormer, or something? Sounds extremely victim-blamey.
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Nope. I read it in a book here in israel but so long ago I can't remember more than that. It's possible that the book was full of poo poo, but I'd like to see if anyone knows more.
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