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RE: Phrases and Sayings Translated Word for Word

in #translation6 years ago

I like the translated sayings. We have a lot of sayings in norwegian aswell. One of my favorites is «ugler i mosen» which means «owls in the moss», a similar saying in english would be «something is fishy»🦉🐟

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I would have never guessed that it means something fishy. :D

Haha, it originates from danish where it means «wolfs in the swamp», at it was poorly translated to norwegian and it has just stuck around😅

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Poor translations are the best! And if you haven't stumbled on to this danish language video yet, now you have:

Hahaha, that video is the best! the teachers showed it to us in Norwegian class back in school :)