Ich lass mich nicht gern hadischatzen! ?
hadischatzen
jemanden liebevoll zur Eile anhalten
Beispiele:
Hadi Schatz, wir müssen los!
Hadi Schatz, gidelim artık!
Tag: Languages
Saatlerce
A: Eşin nece konuşuyor?
B: Saatlerce.
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https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/697867983436259328
youpronounce.it
YouPronounce.it allows you to enter an (English) word and finds YouTube videos where this word is used, jumps to the exact point so you can hear how that word is pronounced. 😀
Der Untergang des Abendlandes
Özçekim
Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Association) has approved “özçekim” as the correct Turkish word for selfie. 😀
Guessing the average age of the participants from the picture the discussion must have been a lot of fun. xD
Eldi sildi …
You gotta love th mid of a four-year-old. xD
eldi sildi
iyi ef ci
eyç ay cey key
…— a four-year-old girl in Turkey learning the English alphabet
Hediye
hediye
gereksiz olabilir, gönülden bir ikram
Double Positive = Negative
A linguistics professor was lecturing to her class one day. “In English,” she said, “A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”
A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah . . .right.”
Source: http://www.enginesofmischief.com/makers/evan/humor/doublenegative.html
Lexical Distance Among the Languages of Europe
Interesting chart about the lexical distance among the languages of Europe.
Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
This is probably my favorite Wikipedia article: Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias.
I even added “Car engine revving” in Turkish and something else I don’t quite remember any more … probably “Bite” in German. 🙂