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[Dunamisdeos]

This whole conversation is a WTF.

[Castlecliff]

Yeah, now kiss

[methylatedspirit]

Is this now a WTF competition?

[Castlecliff]

My father said I looked like I was from a Tarantino movie. I have no clue if i genuinely look swag as fuck or this Django look is out dated..

[Greiger]

My wtf of the day, a couple pages back folks were talking about differences in names of countries.  I plugged a couple of those into google translate because I wanted to see how many google butchered the translation of.

While I sadly didn't find anything badly messed up in google translate. (I think google is on to me looking up their amusing translations)  I did decide to listen to how one of them was pronounced.

Yhdysvallat

I am now convinced that the finnish have alien mouth anatomy because I can't see how a human mouth can possibly make the sounds that came from that audio file.

EDIT: No offense meant of course.  More of an impressed wtf as anything.

[wierd]

yoodeedisvallat

that's what I hear anyway...

[methylatedspirit]

That word is "relatively" easy to break down into its constituent syllables, but almost impossible to say quickly as one word.

[IcyTea31]

Yh-dys-val-lat

Take the first syllables:
yh: "Eh, what's up, Doc?" (In Finnish, Y is always a vowel, pronounced the same as the German Ü.)
dys: "dystopia"
val: "wallaby"
lat: "latte"

[TD1]

IcyTea just finnished speaking.

[Teneb]

The radically uneven day lengths are truly a terrible thing, as evidenced here.

[Kagus]

I'm still working on Brzęczyszczykiewicz. I think I've got most of the individual sounds down, it's just making everything flow together that's... Not going so well. Especially considering I don't speak Polish. At all.


I guess you could say that I need to brush up on my Polish.

[CABL]

I'm still working on Brzęczyszczykiewicz. I think I've got most of the individual sounds down, it's just making everything flow together that's... Not going so well. Especially considering I don't speak Polish. At all.


I guess you could say that I need to brush up on my Polish.

Take it slowly, no need to Russian it.

[Iduno]

I'm still working on Brzęczyszczykiewicz. I think I've got most of the individual sounds down, it's just making everything flow together that's... Not going so well. Especially considering I don't speak Polish. At all.


I guess you could say that I need to brush up on my Polish.

This'n, right?

Is there a way to slow down youtube videos?

[Kagus]

I'm still working on Brzęczyszczykiewicz. I think I've got most of the individual sounds down, it's just making everything flow together that's... Not going so well. Especially considering I don't speak Polish. At all.


I guess you could say that I need to brush up on my Polish.

This'n, right?

Is there a way to slow down youtube videos?

That's the one. And yes there is, actually! Click on the gear, then on "Speed > Normal" and you can push it up to 2x speed or down to 0.25x speed. I highly recommend doing both to Ram Jam's Black Betty.

Does it help this situation? Uhh... Well, it's easier to hear and understand how that "czyszczyki-" transition is supposed to sound than it is to actually replicate it.

[JoshuaFH]

Are you sure it's a real language and not the Poles making shit up and then snickering behind our backs when we try to learn and replicate it?