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Jun 11, 2006 09:45
18 yrs ago
German term
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Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English
abfiedeln und zufönen
German to English
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Teenage slang
The context is as follows: Von A wie "abfiedeln" (ekstatisch tanzen) bis Z wie "zufoehnen" (jemanden in Grund und Boden quasseln), die Jugend hat ihre eigene Sprache und ihren eigenen Lebensstil.
Ich suche nun aequivalente (und abgefahrene) Ausdruecke mit A und Z im Englischen, um diesen Satz zu uebertragen. Hat jemand vielleicht eine Idee?
Ich suche nun aequivalente (und abgefahrene) Ausdruecke mit A und Z im Englischen, um diesen Satz zu uebertragen. Hat jemand vielleicht eine Idee?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | zufoehnen: talk your ears off, talk you into the ground, talk a blue streak |
Ingeborg Gowans (X)
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Change log
Jun 11, 2006 18:33: Marcus Malabad changed "Term asked" from "abfiedeln und zufoenen" to "abfiedeln und zufönen"
Proposed translations
7 hrs
German term (edited):
abfiedeln und zufoenen
zufoehnen: talk your ears off, talk you into the ground, talk a blue streak
sorry only a suggestion for the second word; the first one is a bit harder. I don't know whether this is "slangy" enough...
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Note added at 3 days3 hrs (2006-06-14 13:42:19 GMT)
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o.k. sorry I was on the wrong track here. Maybe I'm too old for this teen talk..
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Note added at 3 days3 hrs (2006-06-14 13:42:19 GMT)
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o.k. sorry I was on the wrong track here. Maybe I'm too old for this teen talk..
Note from asker:
| Thank you, Ingeborg. But what I was after were two English teenage slang words starting with A and Z, i.e. they do not have to be translations of the German words, they just need to be teenage slang words in their own right |
| This means, it would be something like: "From A for "aggro" to Z for "zilch", young people have their own language and their own life style." But I'm looking for better (and more outlandish) words than 'aggro' and 'zilch' |
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