Danish: Rødgrød med fløde ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VziyktyS0 )
English: Currant pudding with cream
Danish: Rødgrød med fløde ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8VziyktyS0 )
English: Currant pudding with cream
I have to disagree, about the utility of F not that the scale is arbitrary. I couldn't care less about a scale telling me if it's comfortable or not, really, I can go out and see if I'm cold or not for that :) Celsius shows the freezing point of water as it's 0. That means that I clearly see if for example, it can snow instead of rain or that the roads can be frozen today so I gotta watch out for that.
Obviously we are all biased here on the system we've been using since always but that's just my explanation on why I think Celsius is better :) In the end it doesn't matter really, as long as it shows the temperature ;)
Swag is a Con (con as in Comic-Con, E3) term which has gotten popular in everyday life. Basically Swag was real life loot drops found in a Con, these days it has carried over to meaning IRL loot in general, thanks to TV personalities saying the term incorrectly.
Where did the term come from you may ask yourself, many might think it is from Swagger. Which is the way Captain Kirk would walk. However since the term also relates to stolen loot an old Australian term, Which ironically relates to the bedroll. And was used in crime fiction as recently as the 1970s, which was when the Early Cons started to happen, I must feel it has less to do with Swagger, and more to do with Swagmen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swagman
WENSLEYDALE!
"Its Cheese Gromit!"
#boycottchina
We use those in England as well; though I think that 'Barbie' as a term was originally from Australia and we copied it, and me knowing 'Esky' may be due to my parents living in Australia before I was born as I can't recall anyone other than my father saying that (though he called it Eskimo, rather than the short version).
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Swag in England meant loot long before the 1970's.
In reference to the wiki you linked - it contradicts your dates?
"In the early 1800s, the term swag was used by British thieves to describe any amount of stolen goods. One definition given in Francis Grose's 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue is "any booty you have lately obtained,.... To carry the swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety."[4] James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his memoirs written in 1812 and published in 1819.[5] By the 1830s, the term in Australia had transferred from meaning goods acquired by a thief to the possessions and daily necessaries carried by a bushman. The compound swagman and colloquial variation swaggie first appeared in the 1850s during the Australian gold rushes"
Either way, the term nowadays when heard still is easily translated in Australia to mean the swag bedroll, not swag loot. I believe the majority of the current young generation using the term "swag" does not have any real idea of it's true original meaning.
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Swiss-German:
- 'Chuchichäschtli' (when someone asks us whether we can teach them a swiss-german word, we usually tell this one) means a "tiny cupboard in the kitchen".
- 'Samichlaus' means "Santa Claus"
- 'Ricola' is a well known manufacturer of breath mints (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAoDzIsx03E)
- 'Fondue' is the no. 1 speciality in Switzerland.
- 'Röschtigrabe' (since our contry has four federal languages [german/french/italian/retoromanian] we call the line which "splits" german and french-speaking parts the Röschtigrabe. Rösti is another swiss speciality made from cooked potatoes which will then be roasted in a pan (http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/114/roesti.jpg)
Yes, I thought it was clear that I was saying USA nerd cons in the 70's, ie that is when it entered into the slang of the US, and it referred to free stuff given away at cons.
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We have Ricola in the USA, at almost every checkout stand. http://youtu.be/4Q5IA2Epk9Y
Fondue was popular with yuppies in the 80's.
Rösti they look like Southern Style Hash Browns, or latkes
http://www.londongrill.com/final/wp-.../latkes11.jpeg
http://www.winecommonsewer.com/.a/6a...9b18970b-500pi
Sad thing because of some stupid frozen potato product being called southern style hash browns it is hard to find the classic ones.
Fuck
It's a very magical word.
:-)
Sweeter than yo mama's apple pie.
In English, it is pronounced "check." If you start saying "tzeck" to other English speakers, they won't know what you're talking about.
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Oh OK, cool. Glad to know we don't pronounce it wrong in English.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
LOL, yah George Carlin has one of the best routines based on it.
NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkb4TPI-Lo
Lol actually means "fun" in dutch.
I had fun / Ik had lol
pościel - bed sheets in Polish