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[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Italian not missing a beat in making things sound like pasta.

Wait that's what bowtie pasta is named after isn't it

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Should be butterfly pasta! We've been robbed!

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 7 points 2 months ago

In Italian, butterfly, bowtie and the kind of pasta are all called "farfalla". Which has come first, though?

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 41 points 2 months ago

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 2 months ago

mfer nationalised the comments section just like they did the swedish nuclear power plants

[-] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Germans nationalized Swedish power plants? TIL

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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 months ago
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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Ok but Schmetterling doesn’t even sound worse. Just picture it in a not angry German accent

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

If anything it's a good exemple of a nice German word

Well, "schmettern" (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. "Schmetterling" comes from the old Slavic "Schmetten", meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from "schmettern", which is a word still in use.

[-] YellowTraveller@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

There's too many consonants

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 months ago

But only the "TT" sound harsh, which is the same as butterfly, which I'd argue sounds harsher overall.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The "schmett" makes me think of the mess that's left if you squish one.

EDIT: Curious about the etymology of the German word, and the "schmett" part means "cream," which is similar to the "butter" part we use in English. The closest word an English speaker might recognize is probably the Yiddish "schmir."

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

Zangendeutsch: Butterfliege

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 months ago

What is zangendeutsch? Google isn't giving me much in the way of English answers

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 32 points 2 months ago

It's basically an insider from a German meme community here on lemmy. The community is called ich_iel (a translation of me_irl) and people use bad literal translations from English as a joke and call it Zangendeutsch. Butterfliege is a literal translation of butterfly but not the real translation.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 months ago

I wish I spoke German. That's exactly my type of humor. Lol

[-] accideath@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It’s never too late to learn. Just don’t use the ich_iel community as study material or you’ll end up speaking a very strange kind of German.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, it'd have to go better than my attempts at learning Spanish. Lol. 5 new years resolutions in a row!

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago
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[-] moshtradamus666@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

That's funny, in Brazilian Portuguese 'mariposa' means 'moth', and the word for 'butterfly' is 'borboleta'. TDIL.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

β€˜borboleta’

Lol sounds like medieval siege engine name

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] sverit@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago

UND KEINE EIER!

[-] Hagdos@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Die eier von Satan literally means Satan's eggs. It's a recipe for round cookies with hash. And no eggs.

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[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 8 points 2 months ago

Sommerfugl (bird of summer) in Danish :)

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[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

And PillangΓ³ in Hungarian. I love both words.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

This image is so ancient it doesn't use flags emoji.

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[-] notsofunnycomment@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

Someone once told me to that words for things that are not traded across linguistic borders exhibit more linguistic diversity (as in, neighbouring countries use completely different words that share no common etymological roots etc.). Butterfly is one key example.

[-] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Butterfly is a terrible name

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

And fish should be flowers.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ΰΈœΰΈ΅ΰΉ€ΰΈͺΰΈ·ΰΉ‰ΰΈ­ in Thai translates to β€œshirt ghost” 🀷 it sounds very similar to the tone-deaf as β€œtiger ghost” which is certainly a cooler name, but nope.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

We used to call then flutterbys definitely trolling

[-] steelyDansSteamedHam@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Afrikaans: skoenlapper, which translates to shoe licker.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Papalotl in Nahuatl.

[-] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Ancient meme. Handle with caution

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[-] Phantaminum@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Mariposa gang

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

A schmetterling is the approximate amount of shit one spackles into the bowl of the toilet after a particularly fibrous day. It's not so much that it clogs the plumbing or anything, but it certainly leaves a schmetterling of evidence behind for the next man to attempt to knock loose with his stream.

A very beautiful word.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

蝢々 けょうけょう chouchou in japanese (although technically the first chou means the same thing; I'm not sure if there is a real difference)

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