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roman history is so fucking funny like imagine living somewhere with such a thoroughly fucked up political environment that it starts raining meat and the response from some of your officials is "probably this was made up to stop us from doing reforms"

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so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

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Me learning about important historical figures: oh hey I think I killed that guy in Assassin’s Creed

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watching a video on brewing Mesopotamian beer and look at this orange man (his ass cannot guard the barley)

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Today some german tourists that were old and spoke very little english asked me a question in the store

And i at last dared to use my half forgotten school german. Wherehas i realised that having had a german teacher whose first language was you know.... german

Between 7-13 years of age, 2 hours a week. Well it had left me with a german accent that i suspect tricked them first into believing that my german is better than it is

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Beautiful December. Värmland, Sweden (December 4, 2023).

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People will tag fucking anything related to Greece as mythology. They'll literally see pictures of pillars and be like "#Greek Mythology" malaka I promise the pillars are from real life

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the november weather keeps being november... Which should be ILLEGAL!

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Peoples' desire to burn the Gävle goat isn't about them hating it. It's a "my son loved your drawing so much that he ate it" sort of a deal.

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Looking at all these tourists dressed in some sort of arctic survival outfits to

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Shop in central stockholm when it is 2+ C outside. It has truly made me relate to how it must feel working during winter in a warm country and seeing swedish tourist walk by wearing shorts and short sleeves

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I have worked as a cashier for about 2 years now and my swedish cashier script can be said in my sleep at this point

And i keep by accident saying it from the cashier pov when i shop lol

I see people joking about going home in shame after saying

"Detsamma" when getting their change from the cashier

I keep saying "varsågod" when the cashier hand me my items, cause that is how finish my cashier script lol

I basically become immune to the feeling cause yeah, i just keep by accident talking like cashier is buying something from me lol

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The swedish guides for shopping in english i can find are always in the perspective of a swedish speakers shopping in an english speaking country

And not as a cashier helping english speakers shop in sweden

(Which i feel is a huge oversite. It is most likely as a swede that you will talk to english speakers in sweden, than abroad tbh)

One of the language struggles working as a cashiers in a tourists shop is how identical many english speaker saying

"Hi"

Sounds to a swedish

"Hej"

I keep speaking to english speaking tourists in swedish because i keep mistaking them for swedes lol

(I did already knew this was a thing. Sometimes when watching english speaking media one will go

"Wait was that a swedish 'hej'"

Because some dialects of english truly say it 99% as it is said in swedish.

Did not suspect this was gonna make me accidentally say the entire swedish cashier script to the english speaking tourists despite me. Having no problem holding it in english ya know, lol)

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On the topic of the english cashier script

What to a cashier (me) supposed to say in english when i in swedish would say "Varsågod"?

I keep saying

"Here you go" but i get the feeling i am being a bit to informell as a cashier doing that. Many of the american, canadian, australian, new zealand, irish and uk tourists has such a proper cashier script down as customers. I feel like i am missing some of the steps they expect as a cashier ya know?

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One of the language struggles working as a cashiers in a tourists shop is how identical many english speaker saying

"Hi"

Sounds to a swedish

"Hej"

I keep speaking to english speaking tourists in swedish because i keep mistaking them for swedes lol

(I did already knew this was a thing. Sometimes when watching english speaking media one will go

"Wait was that a swedish 'hej'"

Because some dialects of english truly say it 99% as it is said in swedish.

Did not suspect this was gonna make me accidentally say the entire swedish cashier script to the english speaking tourists despite me. Having no problem holding it in english ya know, lol)

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On the topic of all the finnish tourists there are zero problem communicating with them, being they either speaks english and/or swedish

But when overhearing their conversations i am not able to sorta vaguelly tell what the customers are saying about the products to eachother in the way i can with the speakers of italian, spanish, dutch, germans etc

Working in a tourist shop atm and i am quickly becoming some sort of languages of europe whisperer

(Well the indo - european languages at least, the finnish i pick up is still only like. The around 10 finnish words i know lol)

But!

My point is that i quickly realised how much basic vocabulary of the indo - european languages of europe i already knew from beforehand. And combined with some guessing about the meaning of words based on. Common language roots, memories of having heard it before, and just vibes.

I can mostly figure out what the tourists want to ask about

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Working in a tourist shop atm and i am quickly becoming some sort of languages of europe whisperer

(Well the indo - european languages at least, the finnish i pick up is still only like. The around 10 finnish words i know lol)

But!

My point is that i quickly realised how much basic vocabulary of the indo - european languages of europe i already knew from beforehand. And combined with some guessing about the meaning of words based on. Common language roots, memories of having heard it before, and just vibes.

I can mostly figure out what the tourists want to ask about