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Denmark saying, "The master negro" needs some explaining.
The Danish words for "downer" ("nedern") and "the negro" ("negern") sound very alike. That has hilarious results when people from certain parts of the country try to say, "That’s such a downer". These poor people are not being racist. They just mean to say “downer” and it comes out as "the negro" because of their dialect.
On top of that we often use the word "master" instead of "very". ("That was master cool!")
So if people with a certain dialect want to say that something is "Very much a downer" it comes out as "It’s the master negro".
It's hilarious.
3rd October 2009
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@Tretron I think that's because they have the same root language. Danish, swedish, Dutch, German, and English (yes English) are all Germanic languages. Finnish is a Uralic language, meaning it came from Eastern Europe (don't know how, just looking stuff up) Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese are all Romantic languages which means they are based on Latin (from Rome). Language history is fun.... I wonder what the roots for other languages are.