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America’s excuse is that he is worst kind of republican ever. :XD:

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. :XD:

3rd October 2009
 


432 Comments:
 
3 days ago #8838668      

@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.



15 days ago #8823132      

America...*facepalm*



1 month ago #8794445      

this makes me realize how much the dutch langauge looks at times on a scandanavian langauge. i know norwegian and dutch got similair words.



3 months ago #8712975      

Master negro is a cool title XDDD



Humility

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3 months ago #8712131      

Master Negro as a title sounds cool though.



3 months ago #8709878      

Doesn't make sense to have a Latino American being a super Conservative republican. Just saying



4 months ago #8691893      

@ArmchairCommando

Hilarious! I live in Tennessee so people talk like that here too!
Like corn is carn, oil is ul, and sandwich is sammich or samwrich xDDD



4 months ago #8676866      

no excuse america



4 months ago #8663991      

All hail the Master Negro! *bows*



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5 months ago #8653471      

I laughed at the last panel.



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