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[–] virku@lemmy.world 133 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Uh. Norwegian chiming in. That translation is really bad. I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round. For graduate I would translate it to fullført (completed).

Also datafag may be used some places i suspect, but I haven't seen it used in higher education. Maybe it was used earlier. But now the terms datateknikk or informatikk are the most common. I have a degree named dataingeniør myself.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 104 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Let it loose before you get on the bus.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You're on a bus with others, you all ate too much beans, and it turns out there's a bomb on the bus that goes off if it detects too high fart smell.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Another noggie here - Yes, they're named after the effect they have on your digestive system after passing them at too high speeds.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 43 points 10 months ago

Sounds like you need

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

lmao it even looks like cheeks spreading

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would never translate slutt that literally means end or stop as graduate or the other way round.

Turns out, neither would Google translate

[–] virku@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

The grammar is bad as well. The of is superimposed in the translation. It should have been slutten/enden av datafag to be correct Norwegian. But by then the joke is fully gone.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Informatikk sounds pretty nuts, too

edit: I learned a new word today

[–] virku@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

I totally read it as “datakink”…

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The first one is real but not the second.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It probably is real. Google Translate gets updated and translations change over time. It used to translate “inglasat uterum” (Swedish) as “glazed uterus.”

It means glass-encased veranda.

It no longer translates it to that.

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[–] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use it as a part of some other compound. It will translate fine.

For example, try slutt datafag lærd

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just gonna slide in here to say that both that and the original is basically gibberish, my best-effort translation of the last one would just be "stop computer science educated"

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes well google translate sucks

However datafag is rad as shit so I'm going to invoke law of cool vs boring

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[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn, never knew I was a graduate computer science.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

all Norwegian movies end with a reminder i am a slut

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Im about to become a slut in a few months.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 10 months ago

Funny thing I was already a slut before I earned my computer science degree.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers' voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say "graduate computer science". To me it reads more like commanding someone to "quit computer science!", more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, "to complete one's education in computer science".

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[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I prefer the unbreedable trucks.

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

Same, truck 😔

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Discussing language and using English to do so, is hysterically ironic. “Is that how you pronounce it? I’ve only ever seen it written!”

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The English interpretation of the Norwegian pronunciation still works since the 'a' sound is the same as in "dawn".

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Due to the Norwegian language conflict there have been various competing forms of written Norwegian over time, two of which have been officially recognized as equally valid by the Norwegian parliament since 1885. Both apparently changed their spelling of "slut" to "sludd" in the 21st century, Bokmål in 2005 and Nynorsk in 2012, presumably in an effort to encourage English speakers to make jokes about Swedes and Danes instead of them.

[–] Potato@feddit.org 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Sure, except the Norwegian spelling is "slutt". The pronunciation is a bit different from the English word "slut", the English one uses more of a ø-sound for the u. "sludd" is the Norwegian word for sleet, which is a mix of snow and water, this is even stated by your sources.

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[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

"Slutt" (means end) is not commonly used for "sludd" (means sleet), though. Never actually seen "sludd" spelled like that, but "slutt" meaning end is extremely common.

I wouldn't expect any Norwegian to read "slutt" and assume it meant sleet.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago

Yeah, imagine words having different meanings in different languages

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Du lukter dridtgodt.

Hjemmebrent.

Takk.

Dra til helvete.

That's the extent of my Norwegian. I hear it's all you need really.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For some reason I have you tagged as dansk/norsk

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Lol, because I'm a Norwegian living in Denmark. 😎

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Noggie here; You've got the important ones. Meet me next year for Norwegian 201 - Phrases to use when your karsk tastes weird.

[–] trd@feddit.nu 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 10 months ago

slutt is a verb here

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Griffus@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I only learned it verbally hanging out with the Norwegian family of a friend of mine. I didn't speak much but I learned to understand quite a bit just from hanging out at their house all the time. And that was in the late 80s. I think I did okay. 😎

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[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The lecturer and TA's for a university course combined tend to get referred to as the "fagstab".

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Joke hinges on English "slut" being spelled like the Norwegian word for end, "slutt", but it actually isn't.

Swedes being very silent over in the corner...

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