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[–] virku@lemmy.world 131 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).

Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven't seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Let it loose before you get on the bus.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You're on a bus with others, you all ate too much beans, and it turns out there's a bomb on the bus that goes off if it detects too high fart smell.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Another noggie here - Yes, they're named after the effect they have on your digestive system after passing them at too high speeds.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago

Sounds like you need

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

lmao it even looks like cheeks spreading

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.

Turns out, neither would Google translate

[–] virku@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Informatikk sounds pretty nuts, too

edit: I learned a new word today

[–] virku@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

I totally read it as “datakink”…

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

You should bring back the usage of datafag as fast as possible

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The first one is real but not the second.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It probably is real. Google Translate gets updated and translations change over time. It used to translate “inglasat uterum” (Swedish) as “glazed uterus.”

It means glass-encased veranda.

It no longer translates it to that.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I had to check, the Finnish word "kinkkukiusaus" which is a ham and potato casserole, still translates to "ham temptation"

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Use it as a part of some other compound. It will translate fine.

For example, try slutt datafag lærd

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just gonna slide in here to say that both that and the original is basically gibberish, my best-effort translation of the last one would just be "stop computer science educated"

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes well google translate sucks

However datafag is rad as shit so I'm going to invoke law of cool vs boring

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then let me bestow this blessed knowledge upon thee
A field of study is called "fagfelt"

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

There is no way Norwegian is a real language

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thought so, the end of finding dory taught me the meaning of slutt.

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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn, never knew I was a graduate computer science.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

all Norwegian movies end with a reminder i am a slut

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Im about to become a slut in a few months.

[–] henfredemars 11 points 1 month ago

Funny thing I was already a slut before I earned my computer science degree.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I prefer the unbreedable trucks.

[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Same, truck 😔

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Discussing language and using English to do so, is hysterically ironic. “Is that how you pronounce it? I’ve only ever seen it written!”

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The English interpretation of the Norwegian pronunciation still works since the 'a' sound is the same as in "dawn".

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, imagine words having different meanings in different languages

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Du lukter dridtgodt.

Hjemmebrent.

Takk.

Dra til helvete.

That's the extent of my Norwegian. I hear it's all you need really.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason I have you tagged as dansk/norsk

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Lol, because I'm a Norwegian living in Denmark. 😎

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Noggie here; You've got the important ones. Meet me next year for Norwegian 201 - Phrases to use when your karsk tastes weird.

[–] trd@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

slutt is a verb here

[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The lecturer and TA's for a university course combined tend to get referred to as the "fagstab".

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Griffus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn't speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎

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[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Joke hinges on English "slut" being spelled like the Norwegian word for end, "slutt", but it actually isn't.

Swedes being very silent over in the corner...

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

norwegian is however a lanious serguage

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