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Learn Dutch very quickly
In Dutch:
de manager heeft een burnout
Try to translate this into English, without dictonaries or internet.
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Another one
Mag ik van u een Big Mac Menu met Coca Cola, super sizen en een milkshake banaan.
To help you out
Mag ik van u een
May I (have) from you a (litterally) or Can I have a ......
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I'm so lame.
all of it is in english except heeft
so it all makes perfect sense.
thanx fer the 'american friendly' sayings
I went to that site you linked to a few weeks ago and read much of it.
But I start to get into my academic modes and pick it all apart and just get further enmeshed in it and then go do something else. I need to live in
an environment where people speak it all the time and it'll come to me.Like if I were locked in a dutch coffeeshop for a week . . . but then I'd
probably forget much of it in a week. HA!
seriously the similarities are so frequent between dutch and english
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In a Dutch coffeeshop you learn quicker English/American English than Dutch. Esp. in Amsterdam. In Rotterdam you learn far more Quickly French than
Dutch.
The simularities are due to the large amount of new things there are.
We don't translate them very often. Sometimes some companies are over the edge like UPC they talk about Digital television and view on demand.
In business as the first example out of every ten words at least 4 of them are based on American or UK English. Making it easier for us to handle our
administration in India. But there are also differences.
Germany,France and English spoken languages refer to faeces, as they need a powerful statement. In Holland we use the English Shit , as a weaker form
of damned. When you do something a normal guy shouldn't do ,we say that you have shit all over. (Overal schijt aan hebben).
But there is a certain simularity in Shit,Schijt and the German Scheisse.
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i always say 'scheissenhausen' with the idea that it means 'shit-house". does anybody know if this is right? even if it's not i'm still going to say
it.
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DED? How often do you visit coffee shops?
The German slang for toilet is Klo. (it rhymes with D'Oh!)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by scallopino
i always say 'scheissenhausen' with the idea that it means 'shit-house". does anybody know if this is right? even if it's not i'm still going to say
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"Haus" is House
"Scheisse" is shit
But in combination it is "Scheisshaus" (Shit-house)
When there is more than one
Scheisshauser (Shit-houses) "hauser" pronounced as "hoi sir"
Scheissenhausen
Sounds more as a German cityname like
Oberhausen
Hausen is a alternative word for "leben" or live
"Schijthuis" is a Dutch slang for toilet. I have to go to the "schijthuis" but is also used for pointing to an afraid person. look at that
"schijthuis"
"Plee" is also Dutch slang for toilet, however it was originally a normal word, than it became slang and now it is a kind of soft-slang, more
acceptable.
In my home town we are very proud of our ways of saying that we are going to the toilet (esp. for the brown work)
"Bringing Mandela to the train"
" I'm going to knit a brown sweater"
" pulling off a splinter out of my back"
and for the peeing part
"I'm going to look if I'am still a boy"
(Unfortenately I nowadays need a mirror to do that)
"I'm going to cry out of my tube"
"Gonna shake hands with myself"
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
DED? How often do you visit coffee shops?
The German slang for toilet is Klo. (it rhymes with D'Oh!) |
Simulair to loo, but I don't know where that came from
Klo is short for Kloset (Closet) wich is the name of the equipment you use. When you can flush it is a W.C. water closet.
Add a sink for washing your hands and than you have the combination wich is called a toilet. But nowadays everywhere it is mixed up.
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how is it that every decent conversation always ends up in the toilet if people have a sense of humor?  Not a bad thing at all, but it seems inevitable . . .
I work in a kitchen, our work all day is makin food for the meatsacks that come in and buy what we make em, after they've shit out what we made them
the day before. So poop humor is common there, in the back of the house. Foodstuffs are also sexual icons and ripe instigators for friendly flirting
and raw innuendo, in a friendly environment of course. So I get all that out at work and don't bring it to the internet. It's not that I'm unaware
of it . . .
you said ""schijthuis" is also used for pointing to an afraid person."
how does this work?
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No DED that's schijtluis or shit-louse.
Also the word plum is used as slang for toilet. Ergo: bad name for kids.
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Both are used
Never heard of the joke from the sick guy that stayed home from work. ( in Holland they check that with a visit). His wife also had telephoned for a
plummer due to a toilet with flushing problems.
In the morning there is someone at the door.
He says he had come for the shithouse that failed to work
The wife shouts to the first floor " Jan, in your bed quick,you are checked.
That joke won't make sense if it actually is shitlouse
Nice try 
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I have absolutely never ever heard anybody say schijthuis to someone who's a coward. Comparing people to houses/buildings is silly. Animals; sure.
Articles of clothing? Muts! Sure.
ALso I don't know that joke. It could go in my "worst joke competition" I ran through MySpace. Though I quit that because there was too much typing
involved.
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for bad jokes I like the ones that go on and on and end going nowhere or ending up being a bad pun.
But my favorite joke?
If you're stuck in the desert on a canoe with no wheels,
how many pancakes does it take to cover a dead dog?
Ice cream has no bones.
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OK... I don't get it...
My worst jokes competition ran in categories, and the only one I attributed to was "sex". But there's many jokes in there! Check http://blog.myspace.com/bbp4music
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there's nothing TO get, it doesn't make any sense, that's why it's so funny
an equally valid punchline is
'not enough penguins fit in a bathtub.'
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Ah, OK...
My current favourite is one I fooled many people with by now. They all fall for it:
-It lives on a farm, has a comb, feathers, big tail, it crows, and it has 4 legs.
-I don't know. What is it?
-A cock.
-With 4 legs?
-I added two to make it more difficult.
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hahahaha
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I think I'm gonna have to come visit in order to learn dutch: the immersion process: surround myself with native speakers and pay close attention, be
a parrot for a while and then it'll come to me
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LEarned yesterdayfrom bbc television
Royle Family
Going to the toilet
Shake hands with the one eyed milkman
And I thought that such sentences where only Dutch
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Take a leek... shake hands with the prime minister... take the lead...
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