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08 Nov 2008 Sat 04:26 pm |
Surprized. I always thought the Netherlands is a place where alcohol and narcotics addictions are considered as part of personal freedoms. Does it make sense to allow weed and curb absinthe
Having said that when I used to smoke, I would occasionally roll a Drum or Samson can´t remember which one tasted better.
I believe I know almost all the curse phrases in Dutch, courtesy of a nasty friend who was raised in Holland.
It is not banned any more, the brewing? of it has changed as theAenigma "fountain of all knowledge" posted above
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 04:55 pm |
as theAenigma "fountain of all knowledge"
Only about alcohol
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 05:14 pm |
It is not banned any more, the brewing? of it has changed as theAenigma "fountain of all knowledge" posted above
The ban was lifted in 2004 (after it had been prohibited for nearly 100 years), but the absinth that is sold in here now, is not comparable to the one sold in eastern European countries or so it is said (where apparantly Dutch tourists go to to get their stock?). Also the percentage of alcohol of absinth I have seen in most alcohol stores here is quite ´low´.
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 05:16 pm |
I believe I know almost all the curse phrases in Dutch, courtesy of a nasty friend who was raised in Holland.
Hehe. Can you please confirm my personal thought that Turkish curse phrases are much ruder than ours?
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 05:16 pm |
The ban was lifted in 2004 (after it had been prohibited for nearly 100 years), but the absinth that is sold in here now, is not comparable to the one sold in eastern European languages (where apparantly Dutch tourists go to to get their stock?). Also the percentage of alcohol of absinth I have seen in most alcohol stores here is quite ´low´.
The main difference is that it does not include a hallucinetic drug anymore
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 05:19 pm |
The main difference is that it does not include a hallucinetic drug anymore
Yeah I know but actually I was mainly referring to the high percentage of alcohol
Btw the Dutch lift of the ban seems very late?? Maybe they should have wait a bit more since our youth is drinking itself to coma for fun.
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 10:42 pm |
Hehe. Can you please confirm my personal thought that Turkish curse phrases are much ruder than ours?
Well, Turkish curse phrases tend to be very sophisticated and creative but in the wrong direction of course.
Another thing about them is that they are not possible to translate. As for Dutch swear phrases, they are pretty straight forward - at least the ones I know. They sound very funny to me. Especially the one that goes like "plur tagi zeup jo" The spelling is surely wrong...
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 10:52 pm |
Especially the one that goes like "plur tagi zeup jo" The spelling is surely wrong...
Pleur toch eens op joh. (Take a hike, get lost). It´s not really bad, there are worse....
Vineyards, you also know all the meanings of all your cursings and name-callings?
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 10:56 pm |
Pleur toch eens op joh. (Take a hike, get lost). It´s not really bad, there are worse....
Vineyards, you also know all the meanings of all your cursings and name-callings?
I doubt if I would have gotten that one!
Yes, it isnt really bad. I could nearly imagine my mom saying it Actually I relaly think that we curse rather politely. I still get annoyed by Turkish curse phrases, (for example when watching a match or when in the traffic), I am sure they are no longer seen for its meaning (among the young population, whod obviously not use it next to their ´bigger ones´ , but just have become ´general curse phrase´, but as a foreigner I automatically translate it, and they are very rude.
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 10:59 pm |
Pleur toch eens op joh. (Take a hike, get lost). It´s not really bad, there are worse....
Vineyards, you also know all the meanings of all your cursings and name-callings?
Yes, but this is not a proper place of course
Thanks for the translation by the way. I think Dutch is a very funny sounding language (in the positive sense) I don´t know where you got that voiced velar plosive : "g".
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08 Nov 2008 Sat 11:06 pm |
You can´t imagine the curse phrases I keep overhearing from young girls. I can´t believe in my ears. Can Yucel was known for his blatant cursing and true, he was an unorthodox person to say the least. Nevertheless, not only was he a good chap but he was also a very good chat companion who would speak with perfect strangers about poetry and politics. His father was an icon statesman and took up a very important place in the cultural awakaning of Anatolia after the declaration of the republic. He was so much under influence of his. He was a very political person. I don´t know how I managed to switch to Can Yucel though.
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