[1 year ago today]

Uha, det var tæt på, at jeg fik skrevet “rusmidler” på indkøbslisten i stedet for “risnudler”. Der kunne weekenden have taget sig en uventet drejning bare for en slåfejl!

[Uh-oh, I almost put “drugs” on my shopping list instead of “rice noodles”. The weekend could have taken a drastic turn right there, just because of a typo!]

(First posted 4 Sep. 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[4 years ago today]

Sometimes an é becomes a chinese character, but that is probably the text file's fault.

(First posted 22 Aug. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1½ years ago today]

Til oversætterne af Dinotrux: I har oversat “reptool” til “reptøj”, men den korrekte oversættelse er altså “værktøgle”.

[To the translators of Dinotrux: You translated “reptool” (a portmanteau of “reptile” and “tool”) to “reptøj” (a portmanteau of “reptil” and “værktøj”), but the correct translation should have been “værktøgle” (a portmanteau of “værktøj” and “øgle”).]

(First posted 7 Feb. 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[4 years ago today]

When the coffee filters fall into the sink.

(First posted 29 July 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[3½ years ago today]

🇩🇪 angesagt ➡️ 🇬🇧 hip ➡️ 🇩🇰 hofte 🤦‍♂️

(First posted 27 Jan. 2020 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1 year and 1 month ago today]

Let's continue with some more:
🇫🇷 Simon 🇩🇰 Simonsen
🇫🇷 Laurent 🇩🇰 Larsen
🇫🇷 Michel 🇩🇰 Mikkelsen
🇫🇷 Garcia 🇩🇰 Bjørn
🇫🇷 David 🇩🇰 Davidsen
🇫🇷 Morel 🇩🇰 Mouritsen
🇫🇷 Roux 🇩🇰 Rød
🇫🇷 Girard 🇩🇰 Gertsen
🇫🇷 Fournier 🇩🇰 Bager
🇫🇷 Lefebvre 🇩🇰 Smed

(First posted 27 June 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1 year and 1 month ago today]

Here are the ten most common French surnames Danished:
🇫🇷 Martin 🇩🇰 Mortensen
🇫🇷 Bernard 🇩🇰 Berntsen
🇫🇷 Dubois 🇩🇰 Skov
🇫🇷 Thomas 🇩🇰 Tomsen
🇫🇷 Robert 🇩🇰 Robertsen
🇫🇷 Richard 🇩🇰 Reichhardt
🇫🇷 Petit 🇩🇰 Klein
🇫🇷 Durand 🇩🇰 Rask
🇫🇷 Leroy 🇩🇰 Konge
🇫🇷 Moreau 🇩🇰 Mouritsen

(First posted 27 June 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1 year and 1 month ago today]

I am a Danish linguist and onomast, who is happy to #DanishYourName for Le Grand Départ. I'll start by re-Danishing and Frenching myself (ew, no, not like that):

🇩🇰 Kristen Munk (🇫🇷 Chrétien Moine)

(First posted 27 June 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1½ years ago today]

Mig: “Jeg tror altså ikke, at det er sandt, alt det, du finder på.”
3-årig: “Men det *er* sandt, alt det, jeg finder på!”

[Me: “I don't believe its true, all the stuff you make up.”
3-year-old: “But it *is* true, all the stuff I make up!”]

(First posted 26 Jan. 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[2½ years ago today]

“Den Grimme Œlling”? I thought you were better than this, [@]disneyplus

(First posted 24 Jan. 2021 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1½ years ago today]

No, Google. An ‘octogenarian’ is not the same as an ‘otteårige’ (‘eight-year-old’) 🤦‍♂️ #GoogleTranslate #GoogleTranslateFail #LostInTranslation

(First posted 22 Jan. 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[2 years ago today]

Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish

(First posted 16 July 2021 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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[1 year ago today]

Appalling : Appealing :: Quit stalling! : Quit stealing!
[@]AIsToBAsCIsToD

(First posted 13 July 2022 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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I believe this is a plush version of the IBM Selectric Typeball 😂

(First posted 27 June 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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Terrible spacing results in “FINT ÆLLING”

(First posted 6 June 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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ˇ P O Ð C A S Ț F E Ś T I V Ą L

(First posted 30 May 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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“…who lyst in them to serche shall fynde it playnely
And loke who hath who hath no bearde, it is a sygne he is no man
And tyll he haue a beard, he is much lyke a woman.”
And this is only one stanza in a longer poem in the same vein... dated ca. 1540!

(First posted 1 Apr. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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It is a little-known fact that The Beards [a novelty band from Adelaide, Australia] have been writing lyrics since about 1540:
“In a bearde doth manhode playnely consyste
The sygne of a bearde, strength doth sygnifye
This is founde in naturall thynges serche who lyste
The prudent Phylosophers, this doth testyfye…”

(First posted 1 Apr. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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ə̗ɟɐɔ səpodᴉʇuɐ (Oslo)

(First posted 12 Mar. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED A #unicode #unicodeproposal

(First posted 9 Mar. 2019 by me [@]danishmunk@twitter.com)

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