When we need to count slowly we'll go one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, and so on.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
242 points (99.6% liked)
Ask Lemmy
27061 readers
2767 users here now
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected].
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
In Dutch we just start counting at 21, if we want to count seconds.
“Eénentwintig, tweeëntwintig, drieëntwintig...”
load more comments
(1 replies)
I'm not Thai, but they have an idiom that something will happen one afternoon in their next reincarnation.
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.
For German, there is a really cool series of YouTube Shorts starting with this one:
"public static void main string args", which translates to "i am going to start speaking now"
english:
"daddy" is some older man you're sexually attracted to
also, "daddy" is your biological father
load more comments
(4 replies)
"yeah nah" - "that is a bad idea/I don't want to do that"
As in "hey mate, want to skive off and grab a quick one while the boss is away?" "Yeah nah, got too much stuff to do aye".
Contrast with the less common formation "yeah nah, yeah" - "that is a bad idea but I want to do it anyway"