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4d ago

Fart kontrol

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You're never going to believe this -
- Funny, that movie was called "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down" in English.
  
  In Japan, they used the title "Old Man Carl's Flying House" for Pixar's Up.
- The tagline makes it even funnier
  
  As someone who only speaks English, that movie poster is clearly just using Simlish. Gjor deg klar? For rosh tid! Sui sui, haha! relationship improved
- Unbelievable
- If this bus drops under 50 MPH, you’re gonna see some serious shit.

This is either Norwegian or Danish.
It's true that 'fart' means speed in Swedish, but in this context 'hastighet' would be used (~'hastiness').
- Probably Denmark then. European route E47 goes from Germany to Sweden, E55 from Greece to Sweden. In Denmark they share the same physical road for a while.
  
  These signs are not Danish, not officially at least. "Fartkontrol" is a Danish word but the sign is not an official sign and in Denmark we wouldn't split "fart" and "kontrol" into separate words.
- i think we figured out last time this was posted that it's danish.
- Hmm I've been to Sweden and I've seen many fart kontrol signs. I know because I took funny selfies in front of them
  
  'Fart' does refer to speed occasionally, but the key here is that it's always called 'Hastighetskontroll' in Swedish. Note the double 'L' in 'kontroll' and the compounding of 'hastighet' and 'kontroll'.
  
  then you weren't in sweden. we dont even signpost them.
- You're just fartblind.
- 'Hastighet' means velocity.
- I guess this is where we get “haste”?
  
  and "fart" is where you get "fare", as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.
  
  It'd be more accurate to say they share the same origin. Swedish and English are both part of the Germanic language family.

I know this is old, but it is a bit irksome that this post is titled "Fact of the day" when it can't even keep its facts straight about which country does what.
Those signs aren't from Sweden. Our traffic agency (who prints the signs) doesn't use 'fart' meaning 'speed' - except for 'gångfartsområde', 'walking speed area', which disappointingly enough doesn't even have the text on it - but mainly uses 'hastighet' meaning 'velocity'. Other commenters in this thread have posted examples of 'fart' in a different meaning being used on Swedish traffic signs.
- hastighet
  As a native speaker of a language that's unlike anything, I envy you folks so much. Knowing enough English and German you just look at it, and go 'aaah, speediness' (I guess the 'hast'/'hastig' bit is the same as 'haste'/'hasty' in English, and the 'het' is the same as 'heit' /~ness'/ in German).
  You wouldn't guess the word, but reading it in context is so much easier.
- both the E47 and E55 also don't exist in sweden, E55 is only signposted up until køge in denmark.

"fart" is colloquial swedish for speed, but it's not used on signs like that. as mentioned previously the correct word is "hastighetskontroll", but we don't actually have signs like that for permanent speed cameras. those signs are blue, and just depict a camera.
when "fart" appears on signs, the actual meaning is akin to "travel" or "fare", like german "fahr-" words. so we have "sjöfart" (seafaring), "rymdfart" (space travel), "fartvind" (wind rushing by when moving quickly), "uppfart" (driveway) and, importantly for signs, "utfart" and "infart" (exit and entry for vehicles).
my favorite of this is a sign nearby on a narrow road that warns about multiple exits with no sight lines.

I'm blowing past that limit

- Hah, just wait until you get to the slutstation!
  
  Every station is a slutstation when you're with me, baby.
- Nah. Just let it rip.You'll have to get used to each other's farts eventually. Might as well get it over with right on the first date.
  
  It's less about the fart itself, more about demonstrating that you're capable of restraint.

It's not the fart that kills, but the smell.
- For the uninitiated: This is a Swenglish joke, a mistranslation of "It's not the speed(/fart) that kills, but the impact(/smäll)"

Always practice fartkontrol, when you go to the slutstation.

My wife and me are always chuckling when in Germany taking the Ausfahrt.

I'd probably be pull over by the police officers everyday.

English: ride to art museum
German: Fahrt zum Kunstmuseum

That kind of speed is called hastighet in Swedish..

I have to say, I normally find the "ha-ha, this word sounds like something else in English" stuff to be a bit... provincial, but I'll admit some are a bit
.

5 Farts per hour is quite a lot of propulsion, better limit that.

this post stinks

I will never not laugh at this

What is that 2 - 12 kmh sign? A speed limit for a pedestrian road?
- I guess you need to expect your farts being controlled over the next 2-12 km.
- It's not km/h, just km. So maybe from km 2 to km 12 on this road, they are "controlling the farts".

https://youtu.be/CixbO5wh1es

Thor is that you?

I am only learning this now??!?!

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