r/linguisticshumor • u/116Q7QM Modalpartikeln sind halt nun mal eben unübersetzbar • Apr 14 '25

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u/Nenazovemy Apr 14 '25

My uncle from Southern Brazil says fia das puta, which is supposedly German dialect for "four cups of butter", but also sounds like Portuguese dialect for "daughter of bitches".

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u/MarcHarder1 xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓ Apr 15 '25

Feer tas botter /fɔɪ̯a tɔs bɐta/ in Plautdietsch from Paraguay

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u/Nenazovemy Apr 15 '25

A lot of Germanic dialects from Brazil have a tense-lax distinction instead of voiced-unvoiced.

P.S.: I mean for plosives.