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Another Dutch one I know : Koop een boot, werk je dood. translates loosely to : Buy a boat and work on it will be a deathmarch. Except in Duch, it rhymes.
by the-dude 5y ago
Another Dutch one I know :
Koop een boot, werk je dood.
translates loosely to :
Buy a boat and work on it will be a deathmarch.
Except in Duch, it rhymes.
- CaptainJustin 5y agoCould you also translate that "Buy a boat, work yourself dead" ?
- vidarh 5y agoOr "to death", yes. Same sentence structure works fine barring the occasional word order change in most Germanic languages (e.g. Kjøp en båt, arbeid deg til døde/til døds" in Norwegian. I can't find a way of making it rhyme in other Germanic languages, though. (incidentally work/werk have cognates in German and Scandinavian languages too, but only as nouns (Werk, virke, verk etc.), hence the shift to "arbeid" in the Norwegian version; and "buy"->kjøp or e.g. German kaufen is extra odd, with English having retained a Germanic form while the others inherited a latin loan-word; yes I know this is a total digression...)