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Adam Sharp@adamcsharp.bsky.social |
🇪🇸 A Spanish version of “all talk and no action” translates to “all noise and few walnuts” vs 🇩🇪 A similar phrase from German (specifically Berlin dialect) is “no hair on your head, but a comb in your pocket”
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Adam Sharp
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🇪🇸 A Spanish way of saying “they lived happily ever after” translates to “they were happy and ate partridges” vs 🇩🇪 A German way of bringing something to an end is “flap shut, monkey is dead”
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Lee Randall
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Hey doll, sent you an email yesterday -- check those spam folders!
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Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄
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In Colombia, "all bells and chimes and no ice cream."
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Gili Bar-Hillel
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That’s one of the few expressions where in modern Hebrew we actually still quote a biblical phrase! נשיאים ורוח, וגשם אין Proverbs 35:14, “As vapours and wind without rain”.
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Jesse Fuchs
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Now I want to hear a Fehlfarben cover of this, with appropriate localizations youtu.be/iXXjP6xOJYQ?...
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