thedudeabides ( @thedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 21•2 months ago“You son of a prostitute” Most European thing I’ve heard today
Wxnzxn ( @Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 months agoFun fact: The German original uses “Dirne” which is a very archaic word, could probably be translated as something like “harlot”
python ( @python@programming.dev ) 2•2 months agoSo a Dirndl is a slutty dress??
Wxnzxn ( @Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months agoI mean - nowadays it sorta is, it’s been heavily relegated to sexually fetishised contexts.
But the reason a “Dirndl” is called that is, because “Dirne” is a word that used to mean just “woman” but went through a linguistic evolution to mean “prostitute” quite a while ago. Off the top of my head, I don’t know of an example that happened similiarly in English, but I’d guess there’s bound to be something like that there, too
Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago“Courtesan” is an example in English, originally meaning ‘noblewoman’.
There’s also “minx”, which originally just meant ‘person’. (It’s a cousin of “mensch”.)
thedudeabides ( @thedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 months agoSaving that one for trivia nights
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 8•2 months agoWow, people translate Zangendeutsch into English
idiomaddict ( @idiomaddict@feddit.de ) 4•2 months agoI’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?”
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 3•2 months agoI’m curious: is it intuitive for you once you know or confusing or funny or all of the above?
idiomaddict ( @idiomaddict@feddit.de ) 3•2 months agoWinzig-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