Post things that are retarded about your language

Post things that are retarded about your language.
Pic related, probably the most retarded thing about German. Even as a native speaker I always twist these numbers when writing and talking at the same time.

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What is 1995 in french?

>nittonhundratrettiosex

Nünzähsächsedrissg

How the following numbers are told: 70, 80, 90.

>70
>soixante-dix, litterally translating into sixty-ten

>80
>quatre-vingt, litterally translating into four-twenty (as in 4x20)

>90
>quatre-vingt-dix, litterally translating into four-twenty-ten

You quickly grow accustomed to it though.

But otherwise,
>things that are retarded about your language
All of the conjugations, and its silent letters.

In school we learn the plural 'you' as 'vosotros' and we can conjugate all verbs to match that. But it always sounds retarded and obsolete, nobody ever actually uses that shit (instead, we use 'ustedes' as plural you, which means conjugating verbs in the same way as third person plural, 'they')

Double negation doesn't work in polish:
If you would say:
>Nobody is not perfect
It literally means
>Nobody is perfect.
that "not" doesn't change anything which is not logical.

Turkish may sound horrible but it's pretty logical tb.h
Maybe foreigners can find SOV order ridiculous

Mille neuf-cent quatre-vingt-quinze.

>Tuhatyhdeksänsataakolmekymmentäkuusi
I'm not memeing

depends if you are french or belgian/swiss tb h

it's the standard form in spain

your texts are still written in ustedes tho right?

This is actually a word that is correct: "Nordöstersjökustartilleriflygspaningssimulatoranläggningsmaterielunderhållsuppföljningssystemdiskussion"

>tfw this is the longest word in french: anticonstitutionnellement

We're a nation that likes for our writing to be adjourned with nice healthy spaces, so we don't favour words that are too long.

Many words are compound words, so you can just make up words on the go.

Flodhäst = hippopotamus (river horse)
Pepparkakor = ginger snaps (pepper cookies)
Fruktkött = pulp (fruit meat)
Björnbär = black berry (bear berry)
Jordnötter = peanuts (dirt nuts)
Tandkött = gums (tooth meat)
Sjukhus = hospital (sick house)
Bröstvårta = nipple (breast wart)
Kofångare = bumper (cow catcher)
Blixtlås = zipper (lightning lock)
Tvättbjörn = raccoon (washing bear)
Färgglad = colorful (color happy)

Can you deconstruct that for us?

Can you compete with this triple consonants?
>Flussschifffahrt
Or with these 8 consonants?
>Angstschweiß

>Many words are compound words
Ah of course, same as german.

Hence why I can't help but scoff at those in adoration of the german language (so 9gag I'm guessing?), mistaking it for a complex language, and venerating its elongated vocabulary, without ever realizing that those long words are merely shorter words melded together.

Do you have any idea how that came into being?

yeah

>Tuhatyhdeksänsataakolmekymmentäkuusi
Tuhat=one thousand
yhdeksän=nine
sataa=hundred
kolme=three
kymmentä=dozen
kuusi=six

>västkustk

Tuhatyhdeksänsataakolmekymmentäkuusi

>three dozen
wut?

Yes, because German is widely considered to be a beautiful and elegant language, especially on the internet, who doesn't know these funny pictures with rage faces making fun of the French language.

Kymmentä = tens
Kymmenen = ten
Kaksikymmentä = twenty
Kolmekymmentä = thirty

Is it "Two thousand and sixteen" in your language, or "Twenty Sixteen"?

Actually it seems most people are making the transition from "two thousand andnumber" to "20 number" instead. Seems like only the first decade in English is 2 thousand and 5 (or whatever number)

No habláis bien, sudacas.

We also use ustedes, but that's the dumb thing to do. Vosotros has a unique conjugation that allows you to drop the subject because it's not confused with third person plural.

Same in Russian

dozen = 12 my friend not 10

>he thinks dozen = 10
you're a fucking retard

and you can differentiate between casual plural and formal plural (just like you would singular)

I have heard both but mostly it's the former..form.

that feel when had to speak to belgians on the phone at work and they momentarily confused me with their use of septante.

>German is widely considered to be a beautiful and elegant language
Maybe the language isn't complimented under those terms, but as I've said, there are some on the internet who conflate your convoluted words for "derr german rationality (ps: german engineering is da best!)", and genuinely believe it to be a sign of the german mustard race (as in "look germans have to be super smart to rememeber such long words xD!", without knowing that it's smaller words forged together).

Don't think I don't like german. I do, but you can't either deny that it gets some strange praise on the internet from some who see it as proof of germans as the ubermenschen.

Yeah. I don't know why we don't use it. Here it has a spaniard connotation if used and people laugh, but I guess they forget what language they are speaking

I seem to recall that counting in twenties is owed to us by gallic tribes (quatre-vingt), who would count that way.

Otherwise I wouldn't know. Sorry!

Sometimes free word order works weird in Russian:

жapeHHaя c гpибaми кapтoшкa - fried with mushrooms potatoes
жapeHaя кapтoшкa c гpибaми - fried potatoes with mushrooms

>1936
>一千九百三十六
>1*1000+9*100+3*10+6
>literally perfect decimal way
Sorry foreigners, Chinese numeral is just the best way.

sorry im not that guy but anyways... just tried to clarify what he meant.

Most praise for the Germans is only due to retarded Americans who go MUH GERMAN HERITAGE, and in the case of Sup Forums, MUH PURE ARYAN NAZIS.

That's all.

It's Zweitausendsechzehn in German.
I wonder why noone is saying "zwanzighundertsechzehn" though. (twentyhundredsixteen)

In German we only use "Zweitausendsechzehn" so "two thousand sixteen".

>"Two thousand and sixteen"
this way

Have you ever been to 9gag, l'ami?

this is retarded

>1936: mil novecientos treinta y seis

gallego putoooo

...actually no.

Tыcячa дeвятьcoт тpидцaть шecть. 1000+9*100+3*10+6. This way is better. That multiplication by one is completely unnecessary.

Really? What the heck to you use these for?

In german there are only 2 synonyms for two. "Zwei" and "Zwo". And I think "Zwo" was just invented so you wouldn't confuse 2 with 3 (Drei).

Good.

As taintful as it might be on my soul, it will always remain with me that I did tread the pages of that site in 2008 when it was founded. It has good spirit, but the users there are some of the greatest displays of human retardation I've ever had to lay eyes upon, and they're the ones that spout the "germans are like so cool, like taking on all of the world bro! epic!", "socialism! yay!", "french are surrender monkeys! ebin!", "wtf! immigration is great" memes/belief with no a single speck of irony.

If you want to see germans in the process of their dick getting sucked, be my guest and go there though.

笑死了
>千,万,亿
No way a human being can quickly convert this bullshit from decimal

Isn't "Zwo" just the northern accent?

Serbian:
>1936
>Hiljadu devetsto trideset i šest

Hiljadu- A thousand
Devetsto- Nine hundred (devet- 9; sto- 100)
Trideset- Thirty (tri- 3; deset- 10)
I šest- and six

I believe Serbian is practical in this way.

No, it is always used when it important not to confuse 2 with three. In trainstation-announcements for example. In the military it is even forbidden to say "zwei", you have to use "zwo".

>Not having words for 10,000 and 100,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000
Our scale changes each time 1,000 is multiplied. Why is this hard to understand?

Serbian is the same...

Same shit in Ossetian, this is why we learn maths in Russian, much simplier .

First, declination + plural male gender
1. Dwaj mężczyźni (two men)
2. Dwóch/dwu mężczyzn
3. Dwóm mężczyznom
4. Dwóch/dwu mężczyzn
5. Z dwoma mężczyznami
6. O dwóch mężczyznach
7. Dwaj mężczyźni!
Second, declination + plural not male gender
1. Dwie kobiety (two women)
2. Dwóch kobiet
3. Dwóm kobietom
4. Dwie kobiety
5. Z dwoma/dwiema kobietami
6. O dwóch kobietach
7. Dwie kobiety!
Third, declination + male/female group
1. Dwoje ludzi (two people - man and woman)
2. Dwojga ludzi
3. Dwojgu ludzi
4. Dwoje ludzi
5. Z dwojgiem ludzi
6. O dwojgu ludzi
7. Dwoje ludzi!
Fourth, declination + not human plural
1. Dwa koty (two cats)
2. Dwóch kotów
3. Dwóm kotom
4. Dwa koty
5. Z dwoma kotami
6. O dwóch kotach
7. Dwa koty!
And the last, declination + ‘dwa’ as noun
1. Dwója/dwójka (diminutive)
2. Dwói/dwójki
3. Dwói/dwójce
4. Dwóję/dwójkę
5. Z dwóją/z dwójką
6. O dwói/o dwójce
7. Dwójo!/dwójko!
And don’t forget about:
Second:
Drugi (male)
Druga (female)
Drugie (neutral)
Drudzy (plural male)
Drugie (plural non male)

and most of it we use every day

I know, it's just too different from western grouping by 3 digits

Sounds like a hybrid monster between Reddit and Sup Forums.

I thought it was only a gallery of outdated memes (I sometimes see the 9gag stamp on images that were considered naff here in 2013)... Now I'm aware. I'll put my bullshit glasses before visiting the site.

Negentienhonderdzessendertig
But negentienzessendertig works too

nouazeci si unu
[spoiler]nine-tens and one[/spoiler]

bretty good
lets laugh at inefficient as shit west european ways

...

Oh shit. That's some crazy shit.

The worst thing about Turkish is that it's word order is basically a German sentence backwords.

I wonder how languages that lack V2 word order make people think anyway.

Oh don't bother.

I'll hand you a quick metric of the site's intelligence for you to ward away from it forever: you see, out of curiosity's sake, I visited 9gag to know their reaction to the black characters in BF1, and not including the French in the game.

Litterally every single post was either trying to back that blacks HAD served in WW1, and the others recycling and recycling the very same "Thank God we don't have to play as the french! Like imagine being a french soldier in there, and your only option is to raise a white flag lol" joke.

Over and fucking over.

So in that it is a horrible hybrid: the unfunny repetition of Reddit till staleness, and the retardation of Sup Forums (without its good sides).

Also their humor seems very dated because they still everything from everyone else, i.e. why Sup Forums waged war on them in err, 2009?

We would have all been better off if Franks wouldn't adopt to the losers they conquered. We'd still have a common language and you wouldn't have this wierd number system.

How we say years in English:
784 - Seven hundred and eighty four/seven eight four/seven eighty-four
1900 - Nineteen hundred
1901 - Nineteen hundred and one/nineteen oh one
1910 - Nineteen ten
2000 - Two thousand
2001 - Two thousand and one
2010 - Twenty ten/two thousand and ten

>We would have all been better off if Franks wouldn't adopt to the losers they conquered. We'd still have a common language and you wouldn't have this wierd number system.
I don't be mean to be offensive in any sort of way, but I infinintely prefer that it was a Latin language we rooted ourselves rather than a German one.

I do cry over the treaty of Verdun though. Splitting the two monoliths (well three hah, sorry Lothringen) of Europe and dooming them to inevitable conflict was idiotic. We could've been so much more if united.

Come on. You frenchmen get your dick sucked by cultural educated people. Why can't you spare to see us getting sucked off by some internet memers?

I grant you getting sucked your dick by intellectuals, it offends me not in the slightest.
Why don't you grant us Germans the fun we can get?

Sounds ebin XD

I'll probably stay on Sup Forums, since I can't even stand Reddit who looks advanced compared to this.

Germans also is pompously adressed the admirative gestures of far more refined people than 9gaggers! Germany has a plethora of philosophers, musicians and authors that intellectuals readily sink their teeth into and admire, so why should you settlle for the compliments of internet memers that unironically praise the suicidal Germany (let's face it, you did wage war on the world, twice at that too) of the XXth century as its greatest hour.

France might have a greater share of the attention for people believing it to be the hallmark or refinement, but Germany gets some limelight too and can do so much better than 9gag.

This is the average intelligence of the 9gagger:
>"Nearly a day before the Sup Forums raid, 9gag had discovered their intentions through several posts that had surfaced on the website’s “Hot page”. The posts were in fact, set up by Sup Forums users, in an attempt to confuse 9gaggers. One such post was apparently written by a Sup Forums member acting as a 9gag member, inciting a DDoS attack on Sup Forums. However, the coordinates given to them were actually 9gag’s. Unaware of this, 9gag members fired upon the given coordinates, and DDoS’d themselves. Due to the servers’ massive capacity, little effect was had. 9gag, having discovered their mistake, launched a DDoS attack on Sup Forums’s main page, shutting it down for a small amount of time."

Ouais, vois l'anecdote ci-dessus.

J'en... reste sans voix.

>implying we're just bullied by Internet memesters
>implying everything is forgotten in real life and they only go "surrender monkeys lol" in front of a screen

Frenchmen would say quatre-vingts quinze for 95, that literally means four-twenties fifteen
Belgians just say nonante-six

The thing is that your language is your home/country.

One day will be restored the whole Reich of our common ancesters better and brighter as it ever was.

>Frenchmen would say quatre-vingts quinze for 95, that literally means four-twenties fifteen
>Belgians just say nonante-six

>tfw this is the biggest hindrance to our reunification

>One day will be restored the whole Reich of our common ancesters better and brighter as it ever was.
Well yeah, that was in 1804 "lol", but then Prussians had to be pissy about it.

AND THE SWISS TALK LIKE BELGIANS TOO

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>implying we're just bullied by Internet memesters
>>implying everything is forgotten in real life and they only go "surrender monkeys lol" in front of a screen
Implying you are right.

You are only bullied by Internet memester AND Anglos, esepcially your allmost cousins "the English".
And they bully everyone. They bully Spanish, Portuguese, Swedes, Poles, Germans,...

AND No one bullies you outside of screen. Who did bullie you outside of screen past 1956 ?

Russian.
Everything about it is retarded, because it's unnecessarily complex as fuck.

Yeah, it's not like the Anglos imposed their worldview on the entire world!!!

I always get memed by fucking Malaysians or Chileans about how I'm an effeminate coward that won't take a shower.

>tfw this is the biggest hindrance to our reunification
this and the fact we'd rather stay with the Vlaamse than becoming French

noranta-six in catalan

wtf frenchs

no wonder polish isn't a popular language to learn.

That French autism is a relict of the Celtic vigesimal system actually, that got pretty much mixed with the Roman decimal one

Nah that's because nobody gives a shit

Kind of retarded for foreigner but kind of fun for people who love twisting a sentence like me.
Normal grammar:
>I ate rice yesterday
>aku makan nasi kemarin
I = aku
to eat = makan (there's no past tense or perfect tense)
rice = nasi
yesterday = kemarin

Retarded version:
>makan nasi, aku, kemarin
>aku, kemarin, makan nasi
>kemarin, nasi, aku makan
>nasi kemarin aku makan
>nasi aku makan kemarin
>makan, aku, nasi, kemarin
>kemarin, makan, aku, nasi
Depends on how the way you talk though

Colloquially, "zwo sechzehn" (two sixteen) is common, too.

>zwo
Really depends on your region m8, I'd rather say zwee :^)

>And I think "Zwo" was just invented so you wouldn't confuse 2 with 3 (Drei).
That's how it's being used now, originally it used to be the feminine form of two iirc

Dois mil e dezesseis, so two thousand and sixteen

We didn't wage ware against the whole world in WWI.
It's just the whole world somehow recieved invitations to take part. ^^

WWII was pretty a bad ass operation, a la: "Fuck you! Fascism will conquer the world now"! And then the Anglos sided against Germany "and with France".

Now remember when France wanted to spread " Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité " to the whole world and the Anglos sided against France "and with Germany" ?

At least they aren't keeping us small, right?

We had two chances for world dominantion...
We both have the same country as origin! I can't believe you guys gave up on it.
For me the world doesn't feel right as it's shaped today. Something will be done. maybe next century maybe this century.

>four-twenties fifteen

Eupen-Malmedy?
I can only speak for myself of course, I've only heard it this way here in Southern Germany.

same, actually double negative is pretty much needed here for greek
>kανένας δεν είναι τέλειος
>nobody not is perfect

Luxembourg. The more you go to the North the more they start switching o for e and z for t. In the Northern part of the German community in Belgium they already say twee and generally speak with a tumour in their throat

Speyerer Linie I think it is.

how do you say 80 in french

Well according to Wikipedia it's the Linz am Rhein line.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_German_consonant_shift#Geographical_distribution

>Nah that's because nobody gives a shit

well put it this way:
>learn polish
>realise no one else speaks polish except polish people
>realise you dont want to talk to polish people because they're always depressing cunts
>kill yourself because you wasted 20 years of your life

so yep you are right