translation help: "freak out"?
글쓴이: qwertz, 2010년 1월 15일
글: 27
언어: English
qwertz (프로필 보기) 2010년 1월 15일 오후 8:46:02
do you have a idea how to translate "freak out" into esperanto?
thx,
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horsto (프로필 보기) 2010년 1월 16일 오전 1:00:33
I think the native english speaking people will not understand that, but in Germany and certainly also in many other countries, the (young) people can demonstrate their coolness by using as many (freaky) english words as possible.
RiotNrrd (프로필 보기) 2010년 1월 16일 오전 6:57:39
qwertz:do you have a idea how to translate "freak out" into esperanto?"To freak out" is idiomatic. There is no direct translation. I think the closest in meaning would simply be "paniki", since panicking is essentially what "freaking out" consists of (although in a sort of blithery, out-of-proportion manner; just running away from an armed gunman wouldn't really be considered "freaking out", whereas having some sort of screaming fit because you saw an ant on your pantleg would be).
ceigered (프로필 보기) 2010년 1월 16일 오전 10:25:23
Re freak out, maybe:
frenezi - to act crazy (Li frenezos se li vidas araneojn)
frenezigi - to become crazy
panikegi - greatly panic.
darkweasel (프로필 보기) 2010년 1월 16일 오후 5:04:58
horsto:I think the native english speaking people will not understand that, but in Germany and certainly also in many other countries, the (young) people can demonstrate their coolness by using as many (freaky) english words as possible.Not only that. Sometimes their meaning completely changes in German-language colloquial speech.
The word "(das) Handy", which looks like an obvious borrowing from English "handy" (= German "praktisch"), has acquired the meaning "mobile phone". So if you're trying hard to understand what a German speaker wants to tell you if they say they lost their handy, remember this.
The word "checken", from English "to check", can actually mean "to check" in German, but also has a second meaning: "to understand". So if a German speaker tells you that they don't check something, now you know what they mean.
