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in proper english this is called 'vicarious shame'. in dutch we say 'plaatsvervangende schaamte' which is 'stellvertretende Schande' literally translated to german.
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In Dutch we use 'zitvlees' to refer to a persons ass. But not in any metaphorical context. If youve been sitting on a hard wooden chair for too long you stand up and say 'ach kanker mijn zitvlees doet zeer'
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Also because of climate change. There was a particularly cold period when Iceland was discovered and a particularly warm period when Greenland was discovered. I remember reading that somewhere in a history book in school.
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In Dutch we would say 'Fijne avond' or 'fijn weekend' aka 'have a nice evening/weekend'. I guess the equivalent of 'feierabend' would be to say 'vier je avond/weekend' which would translate in English to 'celebrate/enjoy your evening/weekend/leisure time/time off' depending on context and whether its american or british english.
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@rateeightx I didnt want to get into vowels too much because Id have to write an essay. There are like 5 ways that the letter A can be pronounced in English and you dont use any diacritics so when someone reads a word without hearing it they generally dont have a clue how to say it properly, and if you hear a word without reading it you just have to guess for a lot of sounds whether you should use an A, an E, an O, or 'au'. If you are nkt a native speaker and you hear the word 'laugh' for the first time, you would have no clue how to write it. I guess you could borrow some variants from Scandinavian languages or accents from French to distinguish them but honestly its such a mess I would just split them into a bunch of different symbols entirely. In dutch we use a lot of combinations of 2 vowels to represent different sounds, we have aoeiu of course, which represent the short vowel sounds, with diacritics to denote how to pronounce them and where to put emphasis, and then we have many combination sounds: aa, ai, au, ee, eu, ie, oe, oo, ou, ui, uu, to denote longer sounds. in english a word like 'obvious' also has combination sounds but the 'ou' in that word is pronounced completely different from the 'ou' in out. Its so inconsisent and it's such a mass, I would just start over entirely.
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Weh doesnt mean soreness, it means sorrow
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Cale being a Celtic word for port, would the port of Calais also be derived from that root? In Dutch it is called 'Kales'.
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I'd say 'doom' means fate rather than judgment. Fate in the context of judgment. A doom could also be a prophecy. Oh and 'flumbard(ing)' would literally translate to 'flamebeard(ed)' or 'flame-axe' depending on the germanic root you choose for the word 'bard', either 'barda' or 'barte' which are both probable candidates. Some interesting comparisons to Dutch in this video: 'Hernpan' is still used in Dutch as 'hersenpan' which indeed literally means brain pan, where the pan refers to the encapsulation of the brain including the lid on top. 'Jangler' would translate to 'jongleur' in Dutch, which could be translated to jester, but more likely to juggler, as in an entertainer, someone that performs tricks. 'Spinnandweb' is also highly similar to 'spinnenweb' which just means spiderweb, but the 'spinnand' would mean it translates to 'spinning web'. 'Twifald' is 'twijfeld' in Dutch which is closer than the German 'zweifeln'.
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It does seem a bit clunky, this. Some notes: I would have suggested 'lending' instead of 'borrowing', this is more in line with other modern germanic languages, although there is a difference in english between the meaning of these 2 words compared to the other languages, so borrowing does fit as well. But lending is shorter. Instead of 'yearhundred' you could also use 'age', derived from proto-germanic 'aiwaz', 'eeuw' in modern Dutch. Also shorter. Similary, instead of 'stronghold' you could use 'burg', or 'borough'. which has the same meaning. Foresayer should be truthsayer. For some of the other clunky words I have no solution, I have no clue what to substitute for 'ask-thing', there doesnt seem to be an English equivalent for the German word 'Frage' for example. I guess you could say 'an asking' instead of 'an ask-thing', maybe? Oh and to be pedantic, atheling should be pronounced with an ae as in the article 'a' in American English, equivalent to modern germanic 'edel'. Also, laughing has a short 'o' sound, not an 'ah'. Final note: The word witcraft is 'wiskunde' in Dutch, as substitute for the word 'mathematics' so that guy was definitely on point.
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@feli-the-sunfairy oh no cringe is definitely not a positive emotion, i think cringe is best described as the feeling of hearing nails on a chalkboard. it just makes you bare your teeth and pull your shoulders up. schadenfreude is much more positive.
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I am that person who is upset about decimate. Just use another word if you mean something else.
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The hieroglyph for time pretty obviously seems to represent a wheel, or more metaphorically, a circle. With either nailheads or smaller entities within it. In most anceint cultures time was considered to be circular, an infinite repeat of the same events. It could also represent fases of the moon at the same time, but the symbolism of it seems very clear to me.
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As an English translation for jein I would just go with 'nye?'
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As for backpfeiffengesicht, I commonly hear Americans say someone has such a punchable face which is pretty much the same amount of syllables
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'doch' can also be used in a 'yes it is', 'no it isnt' back and forth. In Dutch if someone insists on a ludicrous proposition we say 'toch' or 'toch wel'. For example you tell someone the earth is round, and they say no, its flat, you can simply reply 'toch' and then you start a fight about it. Which would indeed be equivalent to the use of the word 'though' in English.
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Decision isnt pronounced with an sz, its pronounced with an sh.
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@zidane8452 depends on what accent you have. maybe in american english, but a posh british person wouldnt say desizhion like the zh sound is pronounced in any slavic language. you would pronounce it like the sh in 'british' or 'posh'. like the c in a word such as excellent.
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@zidane8452 you are right though that im not a native speaker. but all english people i talk to seem to agree my accent is near flawless. and I learnt from the best. mr Attenborough for example. i grew up when nat geo still had documentaries, and properly narrated ones at that.
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@zidane8452 you may have heard of a town called zaporizhia in the discourse around Ukraine in the past two years. that is what zh sounds like
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@evefreyasyrenathegoddessev4016 yeah the twifald comparison to german was a bit of a miss. also, if youre still interested, flumbard probably means 'firebeard', bard being a shortered version of 'barda', beard in english. alternatively it could be derived from 'barte' which means axe but that makes a bit less sense. good luck with your study of dutch. 8000 words down, about a million to go :P
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@doommarauder3532 Well with Q replacing Qu you would just write qew and problem solved.
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In Dutch we call a 'wegbier' a BVO. Beer for underway. So maybe you should introduce BFU into the English lexicon.
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So, there is a lot to consider regarding the C. It can represent an S or a K or sometimes a different sound with a diacritic instead. We can probably eliminate one of those letters. K being the hardest to write, I vote for that one. So we can remove the K. The letter J is also useless because you can just write an I, so get rid of that. And the letter Y can be replaced by an I as well. If you write 'ie' or 'ies' instead of 'yea' or 'yes', it works fine. Now you have a 3 letters less in the alphabet. Q can simply by used to represent 'qu' aka 'kw' or rather 'cw' because we got rid of the K and Q is useless by itself. Then we have the issue with C, K and S left. There is an old writing for S in German that is like the F symbol on a violin that can be used instead: the letter 'ʃ' or long S. This can represent a long sharp S as in 'assessment' like the Eszett 'ß' in German. S can just be a regular English S as in sand. And C can replace K. You can use those Slavic symbols for adding a z sound to a consonent, thats fine, though its a very foreign symbol. We have very few sounds that have a z at the end. I can think of some loanwords that have it but no native Germanic words. The word 'Tzar' for example. More importantly you could also use the Greek symbols for adding 'pneuma', breath, to add an h sound, which would be denoted by a little c above the letter. For example, the word 'solace' has an S without breath, but the word 'shame' could be represented with an S with a diacritic. The word 'hard' could similarly do without an H at the start with a diacritic above the a. Some English accents barely pronounce that H anyway. SO we can get rid of H as well. We have now removed the letters C, K, J, H and Q already while only adding one, the hard S. So our alphabet is already more simple and more consistent. And we have only added some diacritics, a long S, and the letter Thorn can represent 'th' because its basically a T with a diacritic anyway. Now we can add some more symbols. In many languages the latin 'ch' represents a sound like the letter Chi in ancient greek, a throat G. So I wouldnt recommend just using C as a representation for that, if you want to construct a common phonetic Germanic alphabet, because it is much more suited as a replacement for K. I would propose we use X for this just like the modern Greeks do and then you could use another seperate symbol each for the 'ks' sound as in axe. the 'ksh' sound in action, and the 'tsj' sound in chomp. Or just write it as 'acʃ'. 'acsion' and 'tiomp'. That would at least do to make spelling more phonetic and consistent without needing more letters. And as you can see, we dont need an X, a J or a 'ch', to spell these words phonetically, respectively. But we can do a bit better: for the sound 'ks' we can find a new symbol of your liking, I can suggest the Greek symbol 'ξ' because it already represents that sound. Then add a diacritic to make it a 'ksh'. For 'ts' (as in boats') and 'tsh' (as in chair) you can do a similar thing with a different symbol but you will have to find something because Greek doesnt have a symbol for it but surely some language does, maybe borrow another symbol from Turkish. This all is on top of the other suggestions in this video. Maybe I should make a video myself. Edit: Watching the video further, you can add back and use it to represent the 'uh' sound as in ypsilon without the need for another simbol borrowed from the IPA. Because thats how an 'y' is pronounced originally, and still is in German and Scandinavian languages. Oh and obviously, U V and W are the same letter and can be written the same.
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@rateeightx True, I was just having a bit of fun. Aa for the dz sound that J can make, I would use the greek letter for that. The reason I would use C instead of K is that its much wasier to write, a K is basically just a C with an unnecessary extra vertical line. If you replace every K with a C and every C that sounds like an S with an S then you have more consistency and simplicity. As for words like action, these are french loan words. In french the 'ct' cpmbination sounds like an X. In Germanic languages, its pronounced as 'kt'. For example the word 'tractability'. It doesnt make much sense to use the same 'ct' combination for both these sounds when there are plenty of other letters to use to differentiate between them.
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i would just say 'Bild' in that context
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