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That last point brings to mind an idiom in Finnish. When you don't understand something, you can say "En tajua hölkäsen pöläystä". Now, the funny thing about th
by chousuke 7y ago
That last point brings to mind an idiom in Finnish. When you don't understand something, you can say "En tajua hölkäsen pöläystä". Now, the funny thing about this is that I don't think most Finns could tell you what "hölkäsen pöläys" actually means; it's just a part of the idiom, and kind of invokes the feeling of nonsensical speech. The words themselves are nonsense.
The literal translation is therefore "I don't understand hölkäsen pöläys" :P
- Xylakant 7y agoThere’s a real background to “ich verstehe nur Bahnhof” though. It’s not nonsense, it reportedly has its origins at the end of the First World War when german soldiers wanted to travel home. All they were interested in was getting to the train station. https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/3248/meaning-and-origin-of-ich-verstehe-nur-bahnhof#3249 https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/3248/meaning-and-...