being a space pirate is clearly not all its cracked up to be
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:16,
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Has this information come to you from your own studies of the wider world or is b3ta to blame?
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:33,
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they all seemed to know a lot about British culture and sub-culture as they can get BBC and they were mostly fascinated by 'Allo 'Allo and totally got the sense of humour involved.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:38,
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I have no idea how they managed to translate a lot of the accent/mispronounciation jokes
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:42,
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and really didn't need to be translated. They especially liked the British spy/policeman one and often quoted him word for word, they loved it. They were also very fascinated by The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:45,
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I always thought the rank-and-file Germans (as opposed to the gestapo) were treated rather sympathetically in it, but I don't know whether they'd see it that way
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:28,
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This is also how I picked up some Swedish, because their children's tv is the shit
"mijn neef zou je dat laten doen met haar, maar het kost een extra 500 schilling" but I don't know what it means. Lots of people said it to me though.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:08,
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"My nephew would let you do that with her, but it costs an extra 500 schilling" I'm worried about the use of 'nephew' and 'her' in the same context but whatever floats yer boat
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:10,
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stupid gender specific words
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:23,
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and he would let you do it to her
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:27,
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or any other language. We had very rudimentary French Language lessons at school with no real emphasise of actually learning anything about the language. But on the continent they learn English as a second language and most are multilingual, which puts Britain to shame.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:19,
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I was actually referring though to the fact that "lul" is Dutch slang for penis. Having said that though we can use phrases like cocky and dicky without so much as a snigger.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:25,
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As I understand it also Wan Kok means Bad Cook in Dutch as Mediocre pointed out on my Facebook.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 10:47,
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I spent quite a lot of my childhood in Holland so I know lots of childish rude words but would have no idea how to tell someone to fuck off!
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 11:25,
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Sgt. Peeper's Lonely Half-Hand Band.
Strawberry Flids Forever.
You've Got To Hide Your Hand Away.
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Mon 30 Apr 2012, 9:29,
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Strawberry Flids Forever.
You've Got To Hide Your Hand Away.

