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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If they could reconcile their differences, you could eat chicken wings while learning how to say “jumbo bazoingas” in several languages.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do wish Duolingo had slang and curse lessons

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That would be fucking awesome

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Das wäre verdammt¹ geil

There, learned a German phrase ;-)

Pronunciation in IPA:
das 'vɛːrə fɛɐ̯ˈdamt ˈɡaɪ̯l

1: Technically, that's "damn awesome". The more literal translation of fucking would involve the word "fick", the most idiomatic version "verfickt geil". I don't really see it used even in rougher slang, so I feel like the general equivalent in terms of usage would be "verdammt".

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Danke! I’ve always wanted to learn German.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

And if you skip your lesson, you become the next set of "chicken" wings

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How do you translate made up slang words into another language? Do you just discover which made up slang words they have for the same things and then use those words? What if the other language doesn't have equivalent slang?

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Then you just look at the jumbo bazoingas and stop worrying about it.