Favorite "non-English" phrases?

[leo-rcc]

I always love to use Dutch phrases in another language. "Ga je gang" means "Go ahead" but if you translate it literally it says "Go your hallway".

[Mung Bean]

menja bé, caga fort i no tinguis por a la mort!

(Eat well, shit strong and don't be afraid of death!)

[Ironclad]

Allah-Akbar

[ficklefiend]

I often say "Ich habe keine idee", "Vielen danke", "Bitte schon", "Wie Geht's?" and "Schade". I do it so much that I sometimes get confused when people don't reply in kind!

We also call mum "Mutti", me and my sister were both started into german rather than french in primary school so some of it kind of worked it's way in and never left. I never learned any french at all, which is a real bummer when so much of the rest of the country took at least a bit and expects you to understand turns of phrase. I find this quite often in novels. It always annoys me if they have a little bit of german in an english novel they will translate, but not for a bit of french.

Prost!

[Ironclad]

I had a wolly hat bearing the legend, "De puta madre", my little bro bought it.
Apparently it means, of whore mother.. although I have heard it is a double meaning and could be considered to say, mother fucking cool.
But I don't really know. Anyone offer to fill in the gaps?

[normal]

Dugnad is the Norwegian word for doing work voluntarily to help others.

Going to build a shed? Let's have a dugnad.

Of course, not everyone likes doing work for free, and then you may say they lack dugnadsånd. Which can sort of translate to the spirit of dugnad.

Any other languages have anything equivalent to dugnad or dugnadsånd?

[colubridae]

mir ist wuerst

german
Mine's a sausage, I'm a sausage.

meaning 'I don't care'

[klr]

mir ist wuerst

german
Mine's a sausage, I'm a sausage.

meaning 'I don't care'

Hmmm .... It lacks a certain je ne sais quoi for me ...

[Tigger]

Allah-Akbar : hehe :

[enkidu]

Dugnad is the Norwegian word for doing work voluntarily to help others.

Going to build a shed? Let's have a dugnad.

Of course, not everyone likes doing work for free, and then you may say they lack dugnadsånd. Which can sort of translate to the spirit of dugnad.

Any other languages have anything equivalent to dugnad or dugnadsånd?

That is a word worth pursuing around the world. A brief perusal:

Colonial N A: bee
Older English: bean, bene
N A Amish inter alia: barn raising
Finnish: talkoot
Swedish-Finnish: talko
Estonian: talgud
Hungarian: kaláka
Turkish: imece
Polish: tloka
Cherokee: gadugi

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"footy".

[normal]

Dugnad is the Norwegian word for doing work voluntarily to help others.

Going to build a shed? Let's have a dugnad.

Of course, not everyone likes doing work for free, and then you may say they lack dugnadsånd. Which can sort of translate to the spirit of dugnad.

Any other languages have anything equivalent to dugnad or dugnadsånd?

That is a word worth pursuing around the world. A brief perusal:

Colonial N A: bee
Older English: bean, bene
N A Amish inter alia: barn raising
Finnish: talkoot
Swedish-Finnish: talko
Estonian: talgud
Hungarian: kaláka
Turkish: imece
Polish: tloka
Cherokee: gadugi

Nice. How did you find out this?

[Feck]

Putain .. it was the pet name of mine for a half - French girlfriend of mine ..

[leo-rcc]

mir ist wuerst

german
Mine's a sausage, I'm a sausage.

meaning 'I don't care'

About the same in Dutch "Het zal me worst wezen".

[Ian]

"Schadenfreude". German word meaning taking pleasure from the misfortune or suffering of others.

I feel schadenfreude towards Michigan football fans every time Ohio State beats their team in the annual game.
I felt schadenfreude towards the Somali pirates who mistakenly tried to hijack a US Navy warship a few nights ago.