translation help: "freak out"?
从 qwertz, 2010年1月15日
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语言: English
qwertz (显示个人资料) 2010年1月15日下午8:46:02
do you have a idea how to translate "freak out" into esperanto?
thx,
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horsto (显示个人资料) 2010年1月16日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2010年1月16日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2010年1月16日上午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 (显示个人资料) 2010年1月16日下午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.
