Eh dont remind me, presents and "kevin allein zuhaus" are planned at 16:00 like every year

But what is "kevin"! To me that's a name.

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jingle all the way

"The Christmas present" here, but I'm never heard of it before

well it's a classic family movie, but you know, i really love scwhartzenegger so...

But what is "kevin"! To me that's a name.

Home Alone movies tell you something? The name of the main actor was added to the title in germany

Aw, thank you. Take a Speckulatius (German Christmas biscuit).

Ah, danke!

Home Alone movies tell you something? The name of the main actor was added to the title in germany

"Home Alone Kevin"?

well it's a classic family movie, but you know, i really love scwhartzenegger so...

As I said before, "The Irony of a destiny", "Ivan the Terrible changes Job" and "Home Alone" are the most popular movies here

Don't you have countrywide holidays during Christmas where you live?

Just my job, I'm in the medicine community, we never close!

"Home Alone Kevin"?

Kevin Home Alone - Kevin allein zuhaus

In Russia we just celebrate New Year instead of Christmas because Soviet union wanted to make this holiday atheistic

Well, Christmas is not really Christian. It's pagan. It's the turn of the year (following the old calendar). In Uruguay, to take the religious thing away, they named it "Family Day". And it was so successful that a century later most of people don't remember what Christmas is.

Aw, thank you. Take a Speckulatius (German Christmas biscuit).

i-it's not German

Well, Christmas is not really Christian. It's pagan. It's the turn of the year (following the old calendar). In Uruguay, to take the religious thing away, they named it "Family Day". And it was so successful that a century later most of people don't remember what Christmas is.

I liked christmas more when it was a get drunk and terrorize the rich day

i-it's not German

Well, Austrian? What is the origin? Name sounds Latin but...

Well, Christmas is not really Christian. It's pagan. It's the turn of the year (following the old calendar). In Uruguay, to take the religious thing away, they named it "Family Day". And it was so successful that a century later most of people don't remember what Christmas is.

A lot of pagan culture is repurposed as Christian, in fact a lot of Christian beliefs are derived from other religions...

Well, Austrian? What is the origin? Name sounds Latin but...

dutch/belgian

I liked christmas more when it was a get drunk and terrorize the rich day

Ah. I don't know that version. But I'm not sure I'd like it.

Well, Christmas is not really Christian. It's pagan. It's the turn of the year (following the old calendar). In Uruguay, to take the religious thing away, they named it "Family Day". And it was so successful that a century later most of people don't remember what Christmas is.

In Orthodox Christianity which is supreme here, the Christmas is the religious-only holiday and it celebrates at January 7th

dutch/belgian

Really? Awesome! It's the second thing I love from Belgian & Dutchs then.

Kevin Home Alone - Kevin allein zuhaus

In italy is "mum i lost the plane" and "mum i lost the plane again : i got lost in new york"

In italy is "mum i lost the plane" and "mum i lost the plane again : i got lost in new york"

What

the wikipedia page mentions Germany a bunch too, apparently we use some slightly different ingredients

In Orthodox Christianity which is supreme here, the Christmas is the religious-only holiday and it celebrates at January 7th

Wow. So late. Sixth of January here is "Kings Day"

so it's slightly germany too

Actually here there are two versions. The spiced and the butter ones. I don't like the butter Speckulatius, I like the spiced ones (Gewürze Spekulatius).

In italy is "mum i lost the plane" and "mum i lost the plane again : i got lost in new york"

AT LAST there was no Title-changes in Russia. "Home Alone" is "Home Alone" here

the wikipedia page mentions Germany a bunch too, apparently we use some slightly different ingredients

Where are you from? If you don't mind to say.

Where are you from? If you don't mind to say.

Germany

Ah.

the "we" was inclusive

Ah, okay.

one of the great weaknesses of latin languages heh

I thought the "we" was for Dutch or Belgian.

one of the great weaknesses of latin languages heh

("we" can both include and exclude the person you are talking to)

In italy is "mum i lost the plane" and "mum i lost the plane again : i got lost in new york"

it's interesting why translators usually transform the title to some nonsense. here where I live it's "үйдө жалгыз" (üjdö dzalgyz) which is literally "at-home alone" and it's surprising how they managed to not destroy the title.

("we" can both include and exclude the person you are talking to)

Yeah, but I thought you were Dutch or Belgian, from your remark about the cookies.

Hence my question

I've remembered, Die Hard is also popular on holidays there. I mean, "Hard-to-break piece of nuts"

wtf some companies make spekulaas bread spread

wat

why

LOL

There are Spekulatius teas too.

And flavours to make drinks.

*sobs quietly*

I've remembered, Die Hard is also popular on holidays there. I mean, "Hard-to-break piece of nuts"

Yippie ka ye

For everyone else, it's "home alone" being shown in TV for 1000th time but everyone watches it anyway

Ah... Now I get it... Who on Earth watch the very same thing year after year??? It's not even a good movie

*sobs quietly*

Me too....

also why the fuck is it spelled Spekuloos in dutch but Spekulaas in english

that's super weird

Because English are dumb when it comes to foreign languages

Yippie ka ye

There is a problem with that in some translations, "ye pe Ka ee" sounds similar to the "you are horse-banger", and in some releases of the movie, Bruce Willis saying this because it's funny for some dumb people

Because English are dumb when it comes to foreign languages

how insulting to English people :)

They say it themselves.

The British at least are very aware to their weakness.

English has too much times(Past Simple, present perfect, etc.) and foreingers usually lost in them

Try Spanish.

They have the same.

Probably that's why I didn't get lost with the past times.

There is a problem with that in some translations, "ye pe Ka ee" sounds similar to the "you are horse-banger", and in some releases of the movie, Bruce Willis saying this because it's funny for some dumb people

Bought the videogame long time ago and still playing it...dunno why but it reminds me of christmas

Guys, do you know of any Fedora- only podcasts available?

We have only Past, Present and Future...and that is the only good thing in our language for foreigners

Ah... Now I get it... Who on Earth watch the very same thing year after year??? It's not even a good movie

for us it's less about a movie and more about sitting together and talking about random stuff, after few minutes noone cares about the show anyway

We have only Past, Present and Future...and that is the only good thing in our language for foreigners

We've rejected all articles and tons of other little words like the, am, is/are, etc. Theese words just died through history

It's evolved into changing of the main word in 7 different ways

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for us it's less about a movie and more about sitting together and talking about random stuff, after few minutes noone cares about the show anyway

Ah. Well, in LATAM they usually do that gathering but without the TV. Sometimes they put some music. And people just gather around the snacks and sweets, drink a lot and talk. Or gather around snacks and sweets, drink a lot and fight each other. You choose.

Actually having the TV on is not well considered. In some families is even regarded as rude. "Turn that TV off! You're supposed to be with your family!"

We've rejected all articles and tons of other little words like the, am, is/are, etc. Theese words just died through history

Well, these are not hard imo

Even if they were present in Russian, it wouldnt've been something scary

The hardest thing in Russian is grammatical gender and lack of solid sentence structure (at least for me)

Especially the first

this.

My issue about gifts is usually to whom and not what. But I used to solve it not giving anything to anyone, so nobody would be offended ?

And sounds like 'тю', 'мю', etc.

Especially the first

Ah, yes. Everything in Russian has gender

Ah, yes. Everything in Russian has gender

In Spanish too. There is no neutral. Even objects are either male or female.

Like the ships in English is 'She' but with everything

Ah, yes. Everything in Russian has gender

And quite illogicaly I must say. It's not Spanish when you can put anything in any gender, and not English where gender is basically only he/she pronouns.

And quite illogicaly I must say. It's not Spanish when you can put anything in any gender, and not English where gender is basically only he/she pronouns.

What? Would you care to elaborate the Spanish part, please?

Like the ships in English is 'She' but with everything

I never understood why ships are female....

I never understood why ships are female....

Me too.

What? Would you care to elaborate the Spanish part, please?

You can say both médico and médica, guerrero and guerrera, etc. in Spanish.

Gay :P Nah, i enjoy the time with my family but it quiclly becomes a lot of influx and all I need my breaks in between XD

A lot of influx?

No such thing in Russian

Medic is always masculine, weaver is always feminine

You can say both médico and médica, guerrero and guerrera, etc. in Spanish.

Yeah, but that's because you're not speaking about an object, you're speaking about a person. Each kind of object has its own gender and you can't change it. It's not "El puerta", it's "La puerta".

Yeah, but that's because you're not speaking about an object, you're speaking about a person. Each kind of object has its own gender and you can't change it. It's not "El puerta", it's "La puerta".

I mean there's no way to speak about female soldier, for example, in Russian without using redundant lexicon

You can't say солдатка, you must say женщина-солдат which means "a woman soldier" literally

It creates unnecessary long sentences

I mean there's no way to speak about female soldier, for example, in Russian without using redundant lexicon

Oh, but in Spanish you don't have a "soldada", it's "la soldado". It's always masculine.

Ah, but that's because of the articles... in Spanish they change according to the gender.

You don't need to say "Una mujer soldado". You can, and it's correct, but you can just say "una soldado" and it's fine anyway. The gender is included in the article.

Ah, I see

Your gendered languages are illogical anyway

I've always wondered how this unnecessary and redundant system hasn't been reduced to something English-like with time

Your gendered languages are illogical anyway

In Spanish there's a rule: any word ending in "a" is female, any word ending in "o" is male. And words ending in "e" or other vowels can be anything.

Like "presidente". It ends in "e" so it doesn't change, it's the same word for both men and women.