“You son of a prostitute” Most European thing I’ve heard today
Here in Finland we say “the pup of a whore”.
Added benefit of being gender-neutral.
Gender-neutral insults
Based Finnish
hot
❌
ice, maybe with a hint of sugar
✅
You still have to heat that first, then cool it down after.
Not really! Iced tea can be done by filling a bottle with water and some leaves and putting it in the fridge overnight. You will have a litter of cold tea in the morning!
Wow, people translate Zangendeutsch into English
I’m a native English speaker with very good German married to a native German speaker and every few weeks I come across something that I just don’t get. My husband has now developed a Pavlovian response to me saying “so you remember Zangendeutsch?”
I’m curious: is it intuitive for you once you know or confusing or funny or all of the above?
Winzig-weich took way too long for the payoff, but generally I chuckle a little. I do absolutely worry that I’m internalizing bad English linguistic interference though