Just what I thought about German :-)

I'm all the way down in South Africa and it's fun to see the similarities between Afrikaans and many European languages (Afrikaans being heavily influenced by Dutch and English, obviously). Also I'm just a massive language geek so I love articles like this ❤

Yes, it's seems that a lot of northern countries describe, just describe. shornsteinfeger? the one who cleans chimney. In france it seems like we are between latin, greek and WTF we decribe just like you northern countries. lol

Woets lol

You're putting the horse behind the cart: Most of these here come from German (e.g. most of the non-European-animal ones) which was a dominant language, so Danish & hence Swedish and Norwegian, as well as Dutch (which is Low-German anyhows) got it from there; and probably the same for Czech and Polish though they may be more Russian-influenced.

Actually, to "riste" means to shake :) Most norwegians don't use the word "ryste". But in the brødristers case, I suppose "riste" points to the toasting and not the shaking :)

We do say riste for shaking and toasting. "ryste" is not a word we use for that. Maybe in some dialects, idk, but I have never heard or read it in Norwegian. Anyway, I think the point here is to make fun translations by translating directly. I mean, they are all bannered with "badnorwegiantranslations" after all :p and bread toaster is not a funny translation. Bread shaker sounds like something I would say as a kid, trying to learn english, which is fun xD (a person can be "rystet" , btw, like "shocked", but I don't think anyone makes shocked toast, lol)

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