Can someone translate the German down the bottom for me?

  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Zieeh sich ein yeydts selbst bey Der nasn --
    Waß Dich nit Prendt Thue auch nicht Plasn.

    translates to:

    clean your room

    spoiler

    more like:
    work on yourself
    don't interfere where it doesn't concern you

    literal:
    everyone, grab your own nose (it's an idiom, not really translatable)
    don't blow when it doesn't burn you (like, blowing on hot food)

  • Esoteir [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    after furiously googling it, it seems to read

    Zieeh sich ein yeydts selbst bey Der nasn --
    Waß Dich nit Prendt Thue auch nicht Plasn.
    

    which google poorly translates to

    Pull yourself on yeydts yourself bey the nasn -
    Don't worry about Prendt Thue either.
    

    It's apparently in reference to a popular proverb at the time "Pull yourself by the nose", which I think means to keep your nose out of other peeps business or something, the image of the bird biting the nose is called the bird of self-knowledge

    For shits and giggles you can google Vogel Selbsterkenntnis which has tons of this image made throughout the years, people made drawings of it, sculptures of it, you name it

    like look at this beauty

    • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      “Pull yourself by the nose”, which I think means to keep your nose out of other peeps business or something

      It does mean that, but it's got more meanings wrapped into it, too:
      It implies that you should reflect on (and possible adjust) your own behavior before criticizing others' (or maybe even, to refrain from criticizing others at all, at least that's how it is often employed)

      the proverb is still very much in use, btw.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    https://twitter.com/mariong1/status/1012391961423220737

    It's 17th century german, the meaning is "mind your own business"

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't know what it is, but I do know that it will be making an appearance in my D&D game some time soon.

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      3 years ago

      Isn't a beard technically pubic hair too? As in hair that begins growing during/after puberty.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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          3 years ago

          Puberty and pubic are descended from the Latin "pubertatum" which just means "age of maturity". I maintain that beards are pubes.

            • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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              3 years ago

              It is believed that our groin hair has stayed thick (while most of our body hair has thinned out over our evolutionary time) so that it can release pheromones and attract mates, and your beard does it, too. Sebaceous glands are higher on your face than your scalp, Buka said, which leads to an increase in sebum, which carries pheromones. And since it's richer in sebum, and richer in pheromones, your beard has a distinct smell. "Your signature smell comes more from beard hair than from scalp hair. The base of a hair follicle is much bigger on your face, which is why it looks thicker on your face than your scalp hair. But it’s considered the same type of process, slightly different growth rates but same morphology otherwise," Buka said. In conclusion: If you have a beard, you have pubes on your face. Or, maybe your privates have a little beard on them down there. But for what it's worth, does Buka personally refer to beard hair as pubic hair? "No, I do not," he said.

              Source

              They just don't want to admit that beards are pubes.

              • OgdenTO [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Pubes are hair on the pubis. Is your face a pubis? No. Thus face hair not pubes.

  • hahafuck [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    'Sticking one's nose where it doesn't belong!'

    As the German saying goes: "He who interferes with what doesn't concern him finds what doesn't please him."