My partner: yeah so that particular... act, in my language roughly translates to the same as the English version - Y'know, "blowing" someone.
Me: your language and English are both insane because in my language we call it "sucking" someone, which is what you do! No one should ever blow on someone's...thing! How'd that even go, like "PHHHTPHTPHT"!
Them: would that- would that even be safe? *laughs* Or would that just. Implode their dick??
Me: *deadpan* world's cheapest bottom surgery. Also the most dangerous. "Getting blown", more like "getting blown clean off".
A funny story around the word gay. A thing about the word gay that's so fun is that because of how languages work it's also a thing in Norwegian (1), except it's spelled differently (gøy) and has a different meaning (it doesn't mean homosexual or queer, instead it means fun/enjoyable or quirky/fun)
But because of how pronounciation works, probably especially with Norwegian since we don't have any official spoken standard words can sound like others. (2). I'll assume most people reading this won't speak Norwegian,so I can explain the pronunciation. Generally, at least where I live gøy is pronounced [gøi] (1), using Google assistant I estimate it's like gouy (goúy?), fairly fast (short ø/ou) and with weight at the end, and tbh more pitched up at the ou.
So gøy [gøi] doesn't sound the same as gay [geɪ] normally, but something something similar vocals, dialects, speaking fast and voila, your mildly transphobic father(3) was talking about how (gay /pos) some photos he was showing me were.
Sources under the cut
1. NAOB (academic dictionary, with etymology)
2. Wikipedia: Norwegian phonology (we don't have an official spoken standard)
3. (Mildly) Transphobic not homophobic (afaik), but that still means he isn't like, an LGBTQIA+ ally, not that he claims to be. He isn't like, actively hateful, but as per my understanding trans people don't fit in his world view. I mainly said this to mean that he's not just being pro-queer presumably, I wouldn't call a stranger with similar belief transphobic because of how society is, even now.
9or10allgood replied to your post:When I was little and I couldn't remember the word for ash, "tuhka", I called it "puun ryttyä" and "takanriesaa"... hard to translate but it's something like "wood's crinkle" and "fireplace's menace/blight"
When I was little, money was “tsikka” (because that’s what coins in my grandfather’s pocket sounded like) and elephants were finkyfunts.
Lol!
When my daughter was little, she thought the word "grouchy" meant something similar to "itchy" or "scratchy". She would complain that she didn't want one particular blanket because it was too grouchy. Also her father's beard was grouchy. There was something poetic about that.
When I was little and I couldn't remember the word for ash, "tuhka", I called it "puun ryttyä" and "takanriesaa"... hard to translate but it's something like "wood's crinkle" and "fireplace's menace/blight"
Lol, those are both great!
(things you say when you can’t remember the word for something)
No, and I don’t even speak more than a few words of the language. That anecdote came from a friend of mine who was an exchange student in Germany, speaking German as a second language.
I’m American, and all four of my grandparents came from Finland.
