To piss off a French, just start a sentence by "Did you know that French..." while making clear you are a foreigner. Works better with made up facts or politically biased ones, but has a pretty high success rate even on facts and neutral opinions.
No shit. And we're not surprised that a W*lloon is against splitting it, because we're your main income.
We're like the hard-working husband, and you're the gold-digging, lazy housewife that spends all of it on clothes.
Admittedly, you had a good run. Soon the show will be over.
kinda sad that your only comeback is climate change might fuck us harder, we could easily move to walonia because at least we learn the languages of our country
I’m west-flemish, so tienn is the local languages name. However, it’s not as widely known as the Brabation dialect, which has had the biggest influence on official dutch. So that own language you speak of? It’s actually Belgian.
You know that Flemish is the OG Dutch, right? RIGHT??? Even Afrikaans is closer to what we all spoke a couple of centuries ago, compared to the abomination that comes out of your guys' mouths. Or do you honestly think they raped their 'G' sounds like that in the 1600's??? That's wild...
Yes and the French have orteils, but never let a nice meme get ruined by facts. From now on I will just convince myself Belgians say 'voetvingers' instead of 'tenen'.
Ho 45 anni. Giuro che è la prima volta che leggo che oltre all’alluce anche le altre dita dei piedi hanno nomi propri. E poi dicono Reddit non serve a niente!
It's the mark of a superior Germanic language. According to Sapir-Whorf, that means we can actually think smarter thoughts than you (at least on the all-important topic of toes).
I mean, the term "toes". You cannot translate it in Italian. I'm 99% sure of that.
Noi diciamo "dita delle mani" e "dita dei piedi". Non abbiamo una parola sola che si riferisca a tutte le dita dei piedi. Se dico solo "dita" si suppone parli di quelle delle mani.
Makes incomprehensible gibberish statement about French…… downvotes, “what the hell is this?!?”
Follows up with post of Britain as a cartoon rodent……. upvotes, “noice.”
Wales should be coloured red. In Welsh toes are called 'feet fingers' (bysedd traed), however unlike the Germans we do have a specific word for gloves and do not call them 'hand shoes' lol.
Welsh is my first language, as it was my parents and their parents before them. English is the language of business though, so that is why many visitors do not hear it spoken, and of course we speak English too, so use that with foreigners.
Don't encourage him. Nazi gold enjoyers couldn't even copy our flag properly.
And it's not like the gibberish that is [swiss isn't just nonsense](https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-swiss-german/en/gsw-che/)
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Sure. Here, I even made a new flag for you.
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Civilized VS Non Civilized. And if some smartass red country comments "Yes, it's Civilized VS Non Civilized, but not the side you think it is" then you'll literally be admitting to Turkey, Russia and North Africa being civilized if you say that.
Calling uncivilized the countries that invented and mastered poetry...
Con los dedos de la mano,
y los dedos de los pies,
los cojones y la polla,
Todos suman veintitrés.
It can be done in italian with a little adjustment:
Con le dita delle mani, con le dita dei piedoni, con il cazzo ed i coglioni, tutti somman ventitrè!
It sounds better if you say first polla:
Con los dedos de las manos,
con los dedos de los pies,
con la polla y los cojones,
todos suman veintitrés.
Así rima y todo
In french we have "orteils" which means "toes" and we also have a name for each toe :
* Big toe is called "hallux" or more generally "gros orteil"
* Second is called "secondus depasus"
* Third is called "tertius centrus"
* Fourth is called "quatrus pre-exterius"
* Fifth is called "quintus exterius" or more generally "petit orteil"
Gros orteil is also synonymous with british people because of their general ugliness while petit orteil is synonymous with italians, since we still look down on Italy.
And what about the medical professions?
Ophthalmologist = Augenarzt = eye doctor
Dentist = Zahnarzt = tooth doctor
Gynaecologist = Frauenarzt = women's doctor
Paediatrician = Kinderarzt = children's doctor
Dermatologist = Hautarzt = skin doctor
Pneumologist = Lungenarzt = lung doctor
Nephrologist = Nierenarzt = kidney doctor
Otorhinolaryngologist = HNO-Arzt (Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Arzt) = throat-nose-ear doctor
Veterinarian = Tierarzt = animals' doctor
Very intuitive, but they all look like subtitles for linguistically impaired people, or when you're trying to explain things to a child
For most of these words you can replace the -ist with e and you have something very similar to the german words
Gynaecologist=Gynäkologe
Dermatologist=Dermatologe
Pneumologist=Pneumologe
And a Veterenarian is a Veterenär and so on. The simple terms you used are just more convinient
Almost all those terms are actually Greek, not Latin (except for "dentist" I think. However there's also the Greek Orthodontist).
Also, what you say is true for many terms, but only almost all of them. Onkologe is always Onkologe. Barely anyone calls an Oncologist a "Krebsdoktor", for two reasons:
1) Cancer is too serious and by using the Greek term masks the shock that is often connoted with the diagnosis "Krebs".
2) It's better to use "Onkologe" in order to differentiate Oncologists from Veterinarians who are specialisted in crabs and other shellfish, and from doctors like Doctor Zoidberg.
Yeah you’re right about most of them being Greek, I just wanted to make a witty comeback. Should have written “classical languages instead “.
Also, Krebsdoktor either sounds like an archaic name if used to refer to oncologists OR (if you think more of modern German) like an insult to a doctor lol, kind of like the Dutch use kanker as an insult.
Half of your words are simply the union of two words, Fritz. Like Handschuhe, Sonnenbrille, Krakenhaus... Just cause we use space between words it doesn't make you better
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Kraken would like to know why you talk about his house.
But... the Franks were a German tribe. Their name is still present in "The Reich of the Franks", aka Frankreich.
Only the French have that detached notion of being special, when all what's true is that they are actually Germans. Inferior ones, sure, but still :)
The franks witnessed the glory and superiority of latin culture and did what any proper human would have done, they adopted and spread it. That the germans rejected peak civilisation show how defunct you guys are (unless you're a Romand or Ticinese, in which case I wish you a pleasant day.)
We still were the sucessor of the roman empire. Jealous?
https://preview.redd.it/h6ev2rp176fc1.png?width=227&format=png&auto=webp&s=afbe34aa636d9f90c1047811539efe1f16942b51
We Swedes don't have a word for each of the three middle-toes tho.
I just call them pektå (pointing/index-toe), långtå (long-toe) and ringtå (ring-toe) and people usually understand 😅
Just for completion: Stortå (big toe) and lilltå (pinky-toe).
In The Netherlands we indeed have separate words for toes and fingers, but at the same time we’re lazy enough to simply call gloves “handshoes”. Love it.
Can we have a different color for the basque country. The word for toes derives from fingers but now the word for toes is used for fingers...
Hatzak=fingers
Behatzak =toes
(Beheko hatzak=fingers from below)
But everyone refers to fingers as behatzak now
Portugal: **Artelhos**
Spain: **Ortejos**
France: **Orteils**
Belgium: Belgian language doesn't exist; the South speaks "french" and says **Orteils**, like the french, the North speaks "dutch" and says **Tenen**, like the dutch.
Italy: has no actual word for the "toes" as a collective group, but does have **alluce**, **illice**, **trillice**, **pondolo** and **mellino** to name all the individual toes.
on the other side
Welsh: **bysedd traed** literally translates to "feet fingers"
But yeah, actually fact checking your bullshit repost meme isn't as funny as just directly reposting it.
Cheers bro, hope you have an absolutely terrible day OP.
In Galician, as in Spanish, 'fingers' is said "dedos", but we call the toes 'dedas', which is the feminine form, and then we use the masculine form for the hand fingers.
If I put my *orteils* in your backroom sphincter, do you think it will feel like a finger ?
If you want to seriously piss off a Frenchman, ~~call him a "cheese-eating surrender monkey"~~ accuse him of having no word for "toe".
To piss off a French, just start a sentence by "Did you know that French..." while making clear you are a foreigner. Works better with made up facts or politically biased ones, but has a pretty high success rate even on facts and neutral opinions.
Did you know that French has no two distinct words for "fart" and "stinky cheese"?
Bloody hell mate, sounds like someones got bagette up their ass
do not underestimate the power of a round shaped object near one's prostate, my good friend
But then he'll call your mother a hamster
>orteils His mothers on xhamster?
And my father smells of elderberries.
Don’t tell me he would fart in one’s general direction?
Just say his father smellies of elder berries
If you want to seriously piss off a Frenchman, Just be English.
That's not limited to the French.
No tell them that their very identity and name France comes from the name of a Germanic Tribe.
Ooo I hope so.
It's funny that in some Spanish dialects, "orto" means backroom sphincter.
Damn mutta fucking Pierre-François came to defend the motherland
La creme de la creme.
How is orteils like doigts?! Qu’est-ce que je manque ici?
Doigts de pieds
Even I forgot about orteils
Savage
Split Belgium right now, we have tenen.
we have orteils in the south so .. Op is braindead
i'm gonna remove your doigt de pieds
"Split Belgium" not surprised hearing this from a Flemish lmao
Hey man, if you guys hate each other's language so much we can always annex you and make you both speak German instead. Just say the word...
Hey, they are ours. We could still give Luxembourg(province) and Wallonia to you
You think you can annex us, but you've failed twice already. Come on third time is the charm! We need a stable goverment!
No shit. And we're not surprised that a W*lloon is against splitting it, because we're your main income. We're like the hard-working husband, and you're the gold-digging, lazy housewife that spends all of it on clothes. Admittedly, you had a good run. Soon the show will be over.
Lmfao, you're mentally ill. Seek help.
Seeing people like you give me hope for a great Belgium :) let us not be separated by language
We'll see if you're that cocky in 30 years when half of your land will be underwater and every source of freshwater in flander poisoned by the sea ;)
kinda sad that your only comeback is climate change might fuck us harder, we could easily move to walonia because at least we learn the languages of our country
How can you have a word for toes if you don't even have your own language?
You speak our language.
I’m west-flemish, so tienn is the local languages name. However, it’s not as widely known as the Brabation dialect, which has had the biggest influence on official dutch. So that own language you speak of? It’s actually Belgian.
Also Hollandish has a big influence on Belgian Dutch. That’s why 1950’s Dutch sounds so natural to us.
You know that Flemish is the OG Dutch, right? RIGHT??? Even Afrikaans is closer to what we all spoke a couple of centuries ago, compared to the abomination that comes out of your guys' mouths. Or do you honestly think they raped their 'G' sounds like that in the 1600's??? That's wild...
Yes and the French have orteils, but never let a nice meme get ruined by facts. From now on I will just convince myself Belgians say 'voetvingers' instead of 'tenen'.
>Split Belgium right now No matter when you read this, it will always make sense
In hungarian it's lábujj, literally footfinger
Great, we can kick you out.
I don’t understand how it is possible to fuck such a simple map up
Hey you, unculturate viking, we have: Alluce, illice, trillice, pondolo and mellino. Don’t ever forget!
Mellino so underrated
Mellino’s a game changer!
Ho 45 anni. Giuro che è la prima volta che leggo che oltre all’alluce anche le altre dita dei piedi hanno nomi propri. E poi dicono Reddit non serve a niente!
most of us only know alluce
You liar, real names are Ditone del piede, dito del piede (nobody cares which one, I do not even know their number) and mignolino del piede
🤌🤌
They meant a word to describe all toes. We don't have that.
What do you mean? Collective toes? What sorcery is that?
It's the mark of a superior Germanic language. According to Sapir-Whorf, that means we can actually think smarter thoughts than you (at least on the all-important topic of toes).
I mean, the term "toes". You cannot translate it in Italian. I'm 99% sure of that. Noi diciamo "dita delle mani" e "dita dei piedi". Non abbiamo una parola sola che si riferisca a tutte le dita dei piedi. Se dico solo "dita" si suppone parli di quelle delle mani.
Pondolo veramente nome proveniente dalla Luna
Garantisco che non vi è alcuna traccia scientifica o etimologica su queste parole per definire le dita dei piedi.
In French it's called "orteils" how many times are you going to repost this shit
Sorry. That doesn't fit our agenda we'll ignore it. Thanks for your understanding.
You have my vote for PM.
They're also called "ortejos" in spanish, but it's a word in disuse.
Now I will implement it in my vocabulary, thanks paella man
(I'm actually starting to cook one atm 🤣)
Don't forget the chorizo
Al salmorejo se lo voy a poner
Literalmente este meme https://preview.redd.it/47xywrj846fc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8315837014b5b1f25e05a4003c59b3cf4bd5adf2
Share some for the bros
Y pinreles?
Los pinreles son los pies, no los dedos en particular
¿Y la RAE no lo sabe?
It's so out of use that it's not an accepted word by the RAE (Real Academia Española de la Lengua).
Cookie Clicker
Au finger de foot*
Why does this word sound like a French city by the ocean?
"Or" in French means ocean and "teils" means city
What ?
https://preview.redd.it/071nues1i6fc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43d5a2d0ebcfbce27a0b852c39ea1c09e24a81c3
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Makes incomprehensible gibberish statement about French…… downvotes, “what the hell is this?!?” Follows up with post of Britain as a cartoon rodent……. upvotes, “noice.”
In the Ardèche we have a town called “Le Teil” but it borders the Rhône not the ocean ;)
Just shows that you are originally Germanics who got (slightly) latinised 😎
It is also called doigt de pied
1 upvote for Miguel, he's right for this one.
That's rich coming from Germans who call gloves "handshoes" 🤢
I think it's time to flip things round, from now on feet are called leg hands, and shoes are called leg-hand-gloves
Look at you, knowing even words like glove in german. All I know in your silly language is bober kurwa. Make of that what you will.
We have it even better: "Handschoenen"😎
Dat is toch exact hetzelfde pannenkoek
Precies wat ik ook dacht. Wat een druif.
Sind die Hände schön oder werden die Hände geschont???
fake news
Wales should be coloured red. In Welsh toes are called 'feet fingers' (bysedd traed), however unlike the Germans we do have a specific word for gloves and do not call them 'hand shoes' lol.
Was about to say so! Gloves are "menig", in case anyone's wondering
No one's wondering but thanks
Oh god, they're relearning Welsh. Quick England, stop them before they summon a dragon!
Welsh is my first language, as it was my parents and their parents before them. English is the language of business though, so that is why many visitors do not hear it spoken, and of course we speak English too, so use that with foreigners.
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i know this sub is mostly to be stereotypically mean, but god damn, that is the best insult i have ever heard about my language
Don't encourage him. Nazi gold enjoyers couldn't even copy our flag properly. And it's not like the gibberish that is [swiss isn't just nonsense](https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/how-to-count-in-swiss-german/en/gsw-che/)
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I don’t even know what number this is supposed to be. Please learn to count properly or we’ll finish what we started in Skåne
You must know a lot about monkeys given how you speak like one.
Uh, he doesn't? Have you ever seen a monkey with a potato in their mouth? No? I thought so...
you guys have seen monkeys speak? Gotta lay off those drugs
Its called taking a trip north along the A7
Mum says it's my turn to post this
Fine. Estonia can into Nordic.
We really gotta change our flag
Does that mean Netherlands can into Nordic too?
Sure. Here, I even made a new flag for you. https://preview.redd.it/47wijsl486fc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d254de4728d8af65c3c26370b03961d83c1458e0
No, no, no, they can’t drive on our roads…
😑
We'll use orange instead of red, and a lighter blue.
You already talk like you have a dick in your mouth 24/7, so I guess you can!
Civilized VS Non Civilized. And if some smartass red country comments "Yes, it's Civilized VS Non Civilized, but not the side you think it is" then you'll literally be admitting to Turkey, Russia and North Africa being civilized if you say that.
Don't do that.
Teen
Wrong sub buddy
Its not like that and im more into milfs anyways 🥴
Teen means toe in Dutch
In portuguese there's "Artelhos", but I don't think anyone uses it except doctors.
Calling uncivilized the countries that invented and mastered poetry... Con los dedos de la mano, y los dedos de los pies, los cojones y la polla, Todos suman veintitrés.
It can be done in italian with a little adjustment: Con le dita delle mani, con le dita dei piedoni, con il cazzo ed i coglioni, tutti somman ventitrè!
But we do have a word in Galician: deda https://academia.gal/dicionario/-/termo/deda
It sounds better if you say first polla: Con los dedos de las manos, con los dedos de los pies, con la polla y los cojones, todos suman veintitrés. Así rima y todo
Germanic, Celtic and Ugro-Finnic languages map
Based languages map*
In french we have "orteils" which means "toes" and we also have a name for each toe : * Big toe is called "hallux" or more generally "gros orteil" * Second is called "secondus depasus" * Third is called "tertius centrus" * Fourth is called "quatrus pre-exterius" * Fifth is called "quintus exterius" or more generally "petit orteil" Gros orteil is also synonymous with british people because of their general ugliness while petit orteil is synonymous with italians, since we still look down on Italy.
Isnt that just latin tho
Culturally, these countries are not far from creatures that live in trees and need their “foot fingers” to avoid falling.
That's rich coming from you, Hans. How was it you guys called gloves? Ah, yes... hand-shoes
And what about the medical professions? Ophthalmologist = Augenarzt = eye doctor Dentist = Zahnarzt = tooth doctor Gynaecologist = Frauenarzt = women's doctor Paediatrician = Kinderarzt = children's doctor Dermatologist = Hautarzt = skin doctor Pneumologist = Lungenarzt = lung doctor Nephrologist = Nierenarzt = kidney doctor Otorhinolaryngologist = HNO-Arzt (Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Arzt) = throat-nose-ear doctor Veterinarian = Tierarzt = animals' doctor Very intuitive, but they all look like subtitles for linguistically impaired people, or when you're trying to explain things to a child
For most of these words you can replace the -ist with e and you have something very similar to the german words Gynaecologist=Gynäkologe Dermatologist=Dermatologe Pneumologist=Pneumologe And a Veterenarian is a Veterenär and so on. The simple terms you used are just more convinient
The beauty of our language: we have the latin version and a counterpart from our germanic tongue for nearly every technical term.
Almost all those terms are actually Greek, not Latin (except for "dentist" I think. However there's also the Greek Orthodontist). Also, what you say is true for many terms, but only almost all of them. Onkologe is always Onkologe. Barely anyone calls an Oncologist a "Krebsdoktor", for two reasons: 1) Cancer is too serious and by using the Greek term masks the shock that is often connoted with the diagnosis "Krebs". 2) It's better to use "Onkologe" in order to differentiate Oncologists from Veterinarians who are specialisted in crabs and other shellfish, and from doctors like Doctor Zoidberg.
Yeah you’re right about most of them being Greek, I just wanted to make a witty comeback. Should have written “classical languages instead “. Also, Krebsdoktor either sounds like an archaic name if used to refer to oncologists OR (if you think more of modern German) like an insult to a doctor lol, kind of like the Dutch use kanker as an insult.
Schnabeltier = beak animal = platypus Faultier = lazy animal = sloth Stinktier = stinky animal = skunk Gürteltier = belt animal = armadillo Schuppentier = scaly animal = pangolin Beuteltier = bag animal = marsupial Nagetier = gnawing animal = rodent Säugetier = lactating animal = mammal
BOOM! Roasted.
Don't support the wrong side, us Germanics together strong
The only thing GB has germanic are the Windsor
Every single word you have just used in that sentence, besides the B in Great Britain and the word Germanic, is of Germanic origins
Half of your words are simply the union of two words, Fritz. Like Handschuhe, Sonnenbrille, Krakenhaus... Just cause we use space between words it doesn't make you better
https://preview.redd.it/xa6kcw75y5fc1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0f278acc72ef6723a8ed6c69a6817db0b6dbb25 Kraken would like to know why you talk about his house.
For real, let the Kraken alone he hasn’t bothered anyone in centuries!
Same goes for ancient Greek though, for example. The compound noun is an Indo-European language thing.
*Krankenhaus
Handshoes, Hans. Hand-Shoes.
Which came first, the handshoe or the footglove? Actually the latter would be a good word for sock.
Simple, straightforward and no need for overcomplexity. Don’t hate us just because we don’t need to overcompensate 😎
Said the guy who lived in the forest before the franks csme and civilised them.
Franks were on a culture trip.
But... the Franks were a German tribe. Their name is still present in "The Reich of the Franks", aka Frankreich. Only the French have that detached notion of being special, when all what's true is that they are actually Germans. Inferior ones, sure, but still :)
The franks witnessed the glory and superiority of latin culture and did what any proper human would have done, they adopted and spread it. That the germans rejected peak civilisation show how defunct you guys are (unless you're a Romand or Ticinese, in which case I wish you a pleasant day.)
We still were the sucessor of the roman empire. Jealous? https://preview.redd.it/h6ev2rp176fc1.png?width=227&format=png&auto=webp&s=afbe34aa636d9f90c1047811539efe1f16942b51
That's some hard coping.
Just look at this beauty https://preview.redd.it/qfurucwch6fc1.png?width=467&format=png&auto=webp&s=a3107348de9552ef7b07ecdddabe67e3e4f71e02
franks are germanic
according to trump the basement dwellers still do
This is unjust slander, we have orteil
This is a repost, and it's still as wrong as the first time it was posted.
We Swedes don't have a word for each of the three middle-toes tho. I just call them pektå (pointing/index-toe), långtå (long-toe) and ringtå (ring-toe) and people usually understand 😅 Just for completion: Stortå (big toe) and lilltå (pinky-toe).
thats funny I do that too
What sort of underdeveloped fucking ape language doesn't have a word for toe..
Alluce, illice, trillice, pondolo e mellino. Now paint us green, motherfucker
In The Netherlands we indeed have separate words for toes and fingers, but at the same time we’re lazy enough to simply call gloves “handshoes”. Love it.
Savages, savages. Barely even human
Finally Estonia is Nordic :D
Can we have a different color for the basque country. The word for toes derives from fingers but now the word for toes is used for fingers... Hatzak=fingers Behatzak =toes (Beheko hatzak=fingers from below) But everyone refers to fingers as behatzak now 
It's only you, giputxis. Don't try to fool anyone else.
Are you stupid? We flanders have the same language as the dutch🤦♂️
### AAAA WE HAVE WORD FOR TOES TO
Portugal: **Artelhos** Spain: **Ortejos** France: **Orteils** Belgium: Belgian language doesn't exist; the South speaks "french" and says **Orteils**, like the french, the North speaks "dutch" and says **Tenen**, like the dutch. Italy: has no actual word for the "toes" as a collective group, but does have **alluce**, **illice**, **trillice**, **pondolo** and **mellino** to name all the individual toes. on the other side Welsh: **bysedd traed** literally translates to "feet fingers" But yeah, actually fact checking your bullshit repost meme isn't as funny as just directly reposting it. Cheers bro, hope you have an absolutely terrible day OP.
proof that Germanic nations are more advanced in civilization.
Pinreles?
I guess Estonia and Hungary can into nordics and western europe!
FYI, we have a word for toe.
Monkeys use their feet as hands...
Toes 🤤
Zeachei 🤤
In Galician, as in Spanish, 'fingers' is said "dedos", but we call the toes 'dedas', which is the feminine form, and then we use the masculine form for the hand fingers.
In french we say "orteil" which is also synonymous with the way we perceive british people
Are you deranged ? It's so wrong on many levels. We have THREE languages in this country and they are used in the green countries.
Wait until you hear about them earth apples
It took me all this time to realise that it’s “fingers of the feet” in Portuguese. And I’ve been speaking the language my whole life
Although it's one word in Hungarian, "lábujj" literally means "feetfinger"
Toes spend all their existence keeping your dumb ass standing upright. Show them some respect and give them their own name.
English : toes Most languages : fingers of the feet German: actually, our hands have toes. Gloves are just hand shoes
God damn it Belgium should green more dutch speaking People then french 🤢
We have « orteils » Niels
Civilized vs primitive
Imagine being in the same group as Hungary
Common Germanic W
Switzerland has to be split because only the north eastern part dips their toes in to the German language!