Den Danske Sprog Er Mange Svær

Hva' så, knægt? Skal du med en tur i Hvalkælderen og ha' pingvinbank?? This is a Danish blog where I blog in and about our noble potato language. Not in a nationalist way, don't be fucking racist.

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So What's This All About?

This is a blog in and about the Danish language.

With many English-speaking aquaintances and more time spent on the computer, I've begun to feel my grasp on my mothertongue get worse over the last few years. And hearing people substitute words with English in passing makes me think I might not be the only one? It doesn't help that Danish has a reputation for not sounding very good. It's not suave. It's a bit of a silly one. But it's mine, and I like it.

This blog is dedicated, most of all, to saying silly things in Danish. Sure, there is a core of wanting to reconnect with my native language, and perhaps an undertone of old-man-yells-at-cloud in my soul, but the main point is that translation is a fun puzzle, language is interesting, and sometimes, memes sound great when you translate them to Danish.

And sometimes not. I'm willing to take the L.

Now I know this might attract an unfortunate crowd so I feel the need to disclaim: DO NOT BE FUCKING RACIST. Dansk Folkeparti do NOT fucking interact.

This blog welcomes trans women, queer people of all kinds, weird kinksters, illegal immigrants, and all other aspects of our beautiful human diversity, as long as you support each other's human rights.

Even you, Sweden.

This means to TERFs, no queerphobes, no racists, no people who want to gatekeep pride, no ableists, the works. I know you're here anyway, but now you know that I am using my mind to pierce you with several oversized forks through your most vulnerable nerve endings! I would say that's only fair :)

Tags:

More may be added with time

Nu På Dansk - humorous translations of memes and such things

Fra Det Lille Hjem - Anecdotes, things we've said in Danish in my household, anything of the sort

Kom Lad Os Brokke Os - for whenever I tap into my inner cranky old man

Direct Translation - me having a little guffaw about what it is we call things when you really look at what makes up all those compound words

Den Røde Ordbog - translations of words I sometimes struggle to translate myself, words I often see substituted with English words, or just words that I rediscover or remember and find delightful (or cursed) enough to share

Diverse - miscellaneous

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If you don't mind me asking, do you have any favorite Black singers/musicians that sing in a language other than English? Not looking for any specific language, just not English if possible. Thank you!

Me, unfortunately no 😭 I mean, technically The Weeknd can sing in Amharic, but he hasn't released a full Amharic album so. I'll leave this here for other folks!

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I have some suggestions:

Aiza (Canadian/Burundian singer who sings in French & also won Francophone Artist of the Year)

Tinariwen (I'm fairly certain they are afro-Amazigh & they sing in Tamashek)

Black Morris (Afro-Greek rapper, has music in Greek)

Radmilla Cody (Afro-Navajo singer with songs in the Diné language)

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I would like to shill for Thomas Buttenschøn, who sings (I believe exclusively?) in Danish!

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maybe this is not my place to say because I am monolingual, and I'm sure it's part of a larger, more nuanced discussion about visibility and accessibility on the internet, but I think it'd be cool if people posted in their native languages more instead of in english. I see people do it way more on other platforms than on tumblr which is almost exclusively in english

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El problema es, como bien has dicho, la accesibilidad y la visibilidad.

Tumblr en concreto es muy anglocentrista y un gran número de los usuarios no habla más que inglés. Si quieres que tus cosas lleguen a gente con gustos u opiniones similares, escribirlo en inglés asegura que la gente por lo menos lo pueda leer. Suma a esto el hecho de que bastantes series y tal son originalmente de habla inglesa (y a veces ni se traducen a tu lengua madre), lo que crea un fandom principalmente angloparlante.

Más allá de eso, también hay que tener en cuenta las diferencias culturales que surgen entre fandoms de distintos idiomas. Por ejemplo, durante mucho tiempo el fandom de Vocaloid angloparlante y el hispanohablante han chocado con respecto a temas como la piratería. En ocasiones es complicado manejar estas expectativas, y si sabes varios idiomas, peor incluso.

A mí me gustaría subir cositas en español y encontrar a gente que comparta mis gustos, pero en Tumblr en concreto es casi imposible. Tumblr ya es de por sí mucho más «nicho» en espacios hispanohablantes que otras RRSS como TikTok o Instagram, y si tus intereses no son muy populares, despídete.

La lingüística de los espacios de fans también está hipercentrada en el inglés. No es una pareja, es un ship; no es un universo alternativo, es un AU; no es destripar, es hacer spoiler, etc. Incluso las siglas: en español es LGTB, pero lo que sueles ver es LGBT. Parece una tontería, pero esta disonancia cognitiva hace que resulte muchísimo más complicado hablar en tu propio idioma en un fandom. Por no hablar de las innumerables referencias a posts o a memes... en inglés todo, por supuesto. Como te atrevas a hacer cualquier referencia cultural no inglesa, no te entiende nadie. Pierde la gracia.

Casi todo esto se puede achacar al imperialismo cultural estadounidense. El inglés es útil para comunicarse con gente de todo el mundo, pero su omnipresencia sirve de barrera para todos los demás idiomas. Quizás habría que reflexionar un poco sobre por qué coño el resto del mundo tiene que tragarse años de clases de inglés para hablar del juego que le gusta en una red social mientras muchos angloparlantes no se dignan ni a meter un texto en un traductor automático y prefieren pasar de largo.

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Jeg hørte en sang i radioen i dag der startede ud med sætningen "alting fader med tiden". Nu må det simpelthen holde op. Et Sprog Ad Gangen! Fucking, falmer?? Jeg kommer efter dig!!

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I believe this little guy is a Liophloeus Tessulatus. it was found in Denmark and they're native to the Scandinavia area, but I could be wrong.

Fun weevil fact: the danish name for weevil is snudebille, which translates directly to snout-beetle

weevil 1252

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Poob har det til dig

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European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

There's a petition for the EU to suspend their trade agreements with Israel. If you're an EU citizen, sign it right now.

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Just saw a petition in a group chat about "don't bring ICE to Europe!" and I felt insane for a minute. We already have militarised borders and concentration camps for migrants and we let people die in the sea and we banish people to unfamiliar countries and we brutalise them and we terrorise them and we detain and deport them!! The UK and the EU are not the liberal paradises we pretend they are!! Our borders kill people!! We don't need a petition to keep US violence away, we need to organise against the European violence we already have!!

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The amount of pictures of people dying in boats trying to get to europe. and the amount of few survivors who then get denied put into prisons (remembering the harlem panopticon where we put immigrants for a while. and i do mean like an actual literal panopticon.) or camps and then send back. and why? because some europeans are so fucking racist and xenophobics theyd rather see their fellow men die than to have absolutely nothing change in their lifes to help these people survive. Words will never be enough to explain my rage for how EU has treated people like absolute fucking cattle. all my life the news here. the politicians. the US is a shithole. the EU is a shithole but tries a lot harder to hide it. theres so much blood on these hands. its sickening.

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I keep remembering that fucking post about "Uwu look at Europe's beautiful open borders!!!!" With pictures of a little boundary stone in a field in Belgium or a line painted on a road in Luxembourg, that was circulating around the same time as yet another overloaded boat had been turned back by Greek or Italian coastguards in the middle of the Mediterranean and the International Community(TM) had collectively shrugged when bits of it started washing up in the Greek islands.

The way that Europe has sold itself as such a fluffy woo Good Vibes Only Continent should be studied.

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So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

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7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins In Guinea-Bissau - Health Policy Watch

A US government-funded trial on the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations, which will delay vaccination for up to 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Biss

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I need everyone to know that "ups" is the danish word/expression for "whoops", which makes UPS a really really funny name for a delivery service specifically

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You ever see something that you just know is gonna live in your head rent free forever

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Naturbasen har informeret mig, at dette er en 'løbebille'. Ja det skal jeg da lige love for

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Jeg plejede at bo i indre københavn, er nu flyttet til en anden kommune i storkøbenhavn, og generelt har jeg ingen stærke følelser om kulturen i midtbyen og føler generelt, at jeg foretrækker hvordan tingene er her lidt længere ude.

Men èn ting midtbyen har kørende for sig, som de ikke kan finde ud af herude er, at man kan få lov til selv at bestemme hvad der er i ens mad. Det er umuligt at finde en burger uden mayo herude. Ingen fravalg hvis du vil bestille en sandwich udefra. Jeg er lige kommet hjem fra lægen og jeg går forbi vores lokale kebabskur, de laver sygt god kebab og jeg vil fucking gerne have en kebab. Men hvis jeg beder om hverken chili eller dressing kigger de på mig som om der er noget galt med mig. Det er der også, og jeg ville værdsætte det hvis vi kan være lidt taktfulde omkring det. Sidste gang lavede ejeren en spøg ud af at lade som om at have puttet ekstra i af begge dele. Og jeg orker det simpelthen ikke.

Jeg kan ikke lide når maden er slimet! Jeg er slap og hvid og chili får min tunge til at gå i opløsning! Når jeg bestiller Brød med Ingredienser i, vil jeg gerne fravælge de ting, der gør resten af maden våd!

Jeg har autisme. Hvorfor skal jeg hånes. Jeg vil bare gerne have en relativt tør frokost. Er det så meget at forlange.

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Jeg ville ønske, jeg med god samvittighed kunne spørge, "hvad fanden er en spaghettigudstjeneste"

Desværre ved jeg nok om dansk kirkegang til at jeg nogenlunde kan gætte hvad en spaghettigudstjeneste er

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found a video, honestly love thiss

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Førtidspension er bogstaveligt talt det bedste der kan ske for et menneske, alle i hele verden skal på førtidspension NU