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In Finnish we have "kissanristiäiset" (literally means a cat's christening), which means some trivial and meaningless celebration/event.

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[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

When we need to count slowly we'll go one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, and so on.

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[-] norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

For German, there is a really cool series of YouTube Shorts starting with this one:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Cod-d9hh55c?si=f481mc2DC0uYQTEt

[-] rockyTron@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Not mine but I had a Dutch professor who would say "it's like washing duck's feet" to refer to something that was a pointless exercise or wasted effort. I always thought it was funny but can't find anything on the Internet about it now so perhaps it's not very common.

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

"public static void main string args", which translates to "i am going to start speaking now"

[-] Snowman44@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not Thai, but they have an idiom that something will happen one afternoon in their next reincarnation.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

english:

"daddy" is some older man you're sexually attracted to

also, "daddy" is your biological father

[-] LrdThndr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's a big difference between "Bless me father for I have sinned" and "I'm sorry daddy, I've been a bad girl".

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[-] StarManta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you’re in a scenario where you need to specify between them, “zaddy” is a replacement for the former

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