Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 8:50 am

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:49 am The idea that there is to every distinct language some core property that is conceivable and comprehensible, while also being impossible to convey in a different form, through translation.

Our Yugo curse words/phrases is a best example for that.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

Makes no fucking sense in English.

When is someone chased in... yeah whatever that was?

Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 8:50 am

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 3:49 am The idea that there is to every distinct language some core property that is conceivable and comprehensible, while also being impossible to convey in a different form, through translation.

Our Yugo curse words/phrases is a best example for that.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

Makes no fucking sense in English.

I'm gonna use the English translation of this one later today.

Oh, we've got some more of them too.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate (not in a good way)

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate (not in a good way)

https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

One Serbian classmate said his mother regularly told him 'I will fuck your mother'. Even to oneselves it doesn't always make sense.

Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 1:51 pm https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

You often want to use this one.

"Drink shit through a straw" is a great one.

we are a creative cursing nation.

kokorodoko wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 2:00 pm

Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 1:51 pm https://translate.google.com/?sl=hr&tl= ... =translate

You often want to use this one.

selectively, more lately. you don't wanna give your "fucks" away too easily.

Lu Zwei wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2024 2:23 pm we are a creative cursing nation.

I had a Croatian student a couple years back. She landed in the U.S. at 9 in the middle of a pandemic with almost no English. Super tough, tesko as she put it.

I was trying to help her access some research in her native language for a big standard animal informational essay. We looked up 'bears' in Croatian on her computer and one of the first image were two burly, bearded men spooning in a hot tub. She was all "Medvjed?" and I was all "Ne.....".

By fifth grade she was fluent in English no thanks to me, or masks, or Google translate. Pretty much thanks to her making friends with some nice girls.

As a person that has dealt with foreign people that would come to Croatia, they would all say to you that Croatian is SUPER HARD to understand, and even more so to learn to speak.

SUPER TEŠKO!