• M137@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Same with the Scandinavian languages. You can mostly figure out what they’re talking about, but some words are just gibberish. I had two Danish girls try to hit on me at a bar here in Sweden many years ago, the only thing I understood was that they found me attractive because I look like Bob Dylan and they are fans of him. Danish is especially hard, IMO, even more so when it’s spoken by drunk people.

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      11 months ago

      My friend got by on 7 years in Germany only knowing

      “Ein bier, bitte.”

      and

      “Willst du fich mich?”

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        11 months ago

        Most likely they were using them in the opposite order there, and the beer glass helped ice the swelling.

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      11 months ago

      At my wedding the Filipinas all called out “guapo!” and 3 of us looked up. :)