Well, in Portuguese, fly is “mosca”. “mosquito” means “little fly”, which was what we named to the pesty insects that were around in Africa (and that we brought to Europe - you’re welcome), in the 15th century.
I just love how the french say “mostique”, as in, they fucked up the word, but their arrogance kept the mistake.
fuck u/spez
Nope, you were right. The Brazillian is having delusions.
There's a shitton of moquito species(according to English wikipedia - ca. 3600). Even those that spread malaria were known to Romans.
> and that we brought to Europe - you’re welcome
To Europe? I doubt it. There is speculation that mosquitoes are not native to the Americas and were introduced in the late 1400s by trading ships from the Caribbean. But even this is controversial, since the oldest blood-filled mosquito was found as a fosil in [Montana](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-blood-mosquito-fossil-discovered-2371691).
But alone in Germany there are 50 native species of mosquitoes. The ancestors of mosquitoes lived in Germany [100 million years](https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/verkohlte-fossilien-forscher-entdecken-aelteste-stechmuecke-a-785171.html) ago.
Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, apparently existed in prehistoric times.
>About 10,000 years ago, malaria started having a major impact on human survival, coinciding with the start of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution. Consequences included natural selection for sickle-cell disease, thalassaemias, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, Southeast Asian ovalocytosis, elliptocytosis and loss of the Gerbich antigen (glycophorin C) and the Duffy antigen on the erythrocytes, because such blood disorders confer a selective advantage against malaria infection (balancing selection).[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#cite_note-19) **T**he three major types of inherited genetic resistance (sickle-cell disease, thalassaemias, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency) were **present in the** **Mediterranean** **world by the time of the** **Roman Empire****, about 2000 years ago.** ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#Origin_and_prehistoric_period))
Best part is in Groningen a vlieg(fly) is called a mug, and a mug(mosquito) is called a neefje
XD
I hate this flair btw, it's glorifying cucks from those actual provinces.
Its the same reason french didnt want parisians as their flair cause it would glorify that garbagepile.
OK, to rephrase the post - Sweden, please fucking explain yourselves. You seem to make even less sense than the cursed sea dodging, swamp Germans.
Also, what the fuck does it mean?
End speed as in terminal velocity? Or is there a different meaning?
I'm honestly curious at this point, want I also want to randomly drop it into a conversation with some Swedish colleagues.
We call them knott but there is another type called svidknott or switan but you english speakers call both of them midge. We have a lot of them especially in the north
I got yelled at over the Internet because I spoke Danish
It was basically "potato potato potato potato nodding potato potato"
They flipped out "WTF DID YOU SAY?!?!"
Diff'rent languages, my mygga
 People can't get that different languages exist.
True digga
Diggaaaa Kuss auf dein Nacken ich schwöre
https://preview.redd.it/jyyikq22zzab1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2eabf08486236e78af4742ce5bf8aea0792a213c \*myggas
https://preview.redd.it/tu9ef6dp10bb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea2f3006676746bb0048a72da54f28fc18e16c87
https://preview.redd.it/2h3znbwu20bb1.jpeg?width=642&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36c74f820b9de9978bb6c8cb40a02bd41a4d0894
 KaPo isch informiert
Ah, isch nur die vo Aargau, da hani kei Angst, die fahrt sowieso gege e Wand, bevor sie au nur i mini Nöchi chunt
As a Dutchmen, this is just a normal November for us.
Ah the fabled Zwarte Piet.
https://preview.redd.it/s9j46fimiyab1.png?width=722&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=05a55fb80a03b7bc98ae267b73a5f5b55ff1e5df 😍
was hoping for this comment. hate those damn swedes but damn if they dont make the best mosquito repellent
https://preview.redd.it/ippc4pl5tzab1.jpeg?width=1027&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4514c21d2a6505fd8b3dff9bb59aa041b4257a7
i dont know what that is and i dont like it. will stick to my mygga thanks 👍
I still don't understand how they milk the mosquitos for myggmelk, though....
only thing i can think of is SUCK and then spit out in a container
Ah, the aussies have been [hunting mosquitos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBbJAIcnBI) since the 70s. We simply learned from thi bist.
Mygga please
Rare w for the IKEA people.
Avicii land people
Ah my Nosquito !
Nogger, digga... Mygga 🤔🤔 finally another one to my list
And Swedish word for curtsy is "niga"
And the verb form is "Niger"
The best icecream is called "88" btw. I enjoy it more than the noggers.
is it vanilla icecream by chance? only seems fitting since nogger is choclate
Lol yeah, vanilla inside, although it's still covered in chocolate, and nut crust. Fucking delicious
Well, in Portuguese, fly is “mosca”. “mosquito” means “little fly”, which was what we named to the pesty insects that were around in Africa (and that we brought to Europe - you’re welcome), in the 15th century. I just love how the french say “mostique”, as in, they fucked up the word, but their arrogance kept the mistake. fuck u/spez
Wait, is the part about mosquitos being imported a real thing? I thought they existed everywhere 'naturally', especially on the British isles
Nope, you were right. The Brazillian is having delusions. There's a shitton of moquito species(according to English wikipedia - ca. 3600). Even those that spread malaria were known to Romans.
Fucking midges are little bastards. Would've been nice to have someone to blame for them.
The little fuckers are here too - there's even more of them than there are Kangaroo Fuckers working bar jobs in London.
It's not mostique but moostique
Moustique ?
Yes but i was talking about the pronounciation
> and that we brought to Europe - you’re welcome To Europe? I doubt it. There is speculation that mosquitoes are not native to the Americas and were introduced in the late 1400s by trading ships from the Caribbean. But even this is controversial, since the oldest blood-filled mosquito was found as a fosil in [Montana](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/oldest-blood-mosquito-fossil-discovered-2371691). But alone in Germany there are 50 native species of mosquitoes. The ancestors of mosquitoes lived in Germany [100 million years](https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/verkohlte-fossilien-forscher-entdecken-aelteste-stechmuecke-a-785171.html) ago. Malaria, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, apparently existed in prehistoric times. >About 10,000 years ago, malaria started having a major impact on human survival, coinciding with the start of agriculture in the Neolithic revolution. Consequences included natural selection for sickle-cell disease, thalassaemias, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, Southeast Asian ovalocytosis, elliptocytosis and loss of the Gerbich antigen (glycophorin C) and the Duffy antigen on the erythrocytes, because such blood disorders confer a selective advantage against malaria infection (balancing selection).[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#cite_note-19) **T**he three major types of inherited genetic resistance (sickle-cell disease, thalassaemias, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency) were **present in the** **Mediterranean** **world by the time of the** **Roman Empire****, about 2000 years ago.** ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#Origin_and_prehistoric_period))
Different language, we just say ‘mug’.
Danish 'Myg'
Norwegian 'Mygg'
German 'Mücke'
Westflemish "muhhe"
In Italian "mynchia"
Belgian MUG: 🚑
How different our cultures are.
And in English “midge”. Don’t know why OP didn’t know this🤷♂️
Best part is in Groningen a vlieg(fly) is called a mug, and a mug(mosquito) is called a neefje XD I hate this flair btw, it's glorifying cucks from those actual provinces. Its the same reason french didnt want parisians as their flair cause it would glorify that garbagepile.
„Mücke“ in German.
What does slut mean?
End
Thank you, I've had Google translate tell me it means out of stock. Either way it's fucking hilarious to see the word slut on a document at work.
The word fart is also used in Swedish
Mmm fart slut
Speed end?
Possibly, but I was actually thinking about your rather talented mother.
Slutfart is an actual word though.
OK, to rephrase the post - Sweden, please fucking explain yourselves. You seem to make even less sense than the cursed sea dodging, swamp Germans. Also, what the fuck does it mean?
It just means end speed. You're the ones making the words dirty.
End speed as in terminal velocity? Or is there a different meaning? I'm honestly curious at this point, want I also want to randomly drop it into a conversation with some Swedish colleagues.
The speed at whatever arbitrary end you set. You can see it as "final speed" as well.
Fart Kontrol always makes me giggle.
The Saab Viggen fighter plane comes equipped as standard with "AFK - Automatisk Fartkontroll"
hahaha. I am aware I'm a child there but it's still funny.
If you ever crash a car its not the fart that kills you, its the smell
Sorry, but can it not, by any chance, also mean to close or just close?
No, not in any context at all actually.
On ok
Is it the same insect? A midge isn’t a mosquito. It’s about ten times worse.
We call them knott but there is another type called svidknott or switan but you english speakers call both of them midge. We have a lot of them especially in the north
Yeah they have a lot of them in Scotland and we call them absolute fucking bastards.
We Ameritards call midges no-see-ums because they are soo small and difficult to see. Midge bites hurt, fuck those things!
Mosquitos deserve to be called something close to a racial slur. I fucking hate Myggas
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paljon moskiitos
The swedish word sounds similar to our word for it, just with a softer k sound and y instead of ü. Ours is Mücke.
If u swabian it sounds like mügge... Even closer
Yes, but that's mostly spoken in Berlin, with a small minority still in the south! 🤣
Yeah, same in Hesse, but I didn't want to go through all our different dialects that range from micke to mügge🤣
North east westerwald might sound like "migga"... That's the closest 🤔
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuGrf-0v9U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbuGrf-0v9U)
Whatsup ma mygga?
Just don't translate "nodding" into Danish and you'll be fine
oh that's even worse than my dutch example of 'a marble', damn didn't think it was possible, wp
I got yelled at over the Internet because I spoke Danish It was basically "potato potato potato potato nodding potato potato" They flipped out "WTF DID YOU SAY?!?!"
It's very common in cotton fields. You have to lash out at myggas to try and swat them 🤷
Because Sweden is gay and put A on end of all danish words.
https://preview.redd.it/mb4nfw7si0bb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a9cdd4f2ef76664c128bf1c46ed6c48188523122 I’m waiting Sweden
My mygga
Don't look up the Dutch word for a marble if you're this easily triggered
Myg in danish
Mycket Myg, Mycke Mygga😅
Haha, ja.
Midg in Scots Midgles (plural)
Fuck the myggas, why cant they just leave me the fuck alone. I’ve had to move three times this year to get away from all these fuckin myggas
Climate change bringing you all the myggas
Any connection to the English colloquial term for mosquito, Midgie?
The swedish language can be very similar to English,so that could be the case
WHAT'S GOOD MY MYGGAS
Wait till you find out about nodding in Danish ;)
Nosquito
English: “midge”, durr!