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Originally Posted by kool maudit
danish, amusingly, has no word for "please".
sometimes they get a bit shy over this and say things like "i guess you must think of us as rude."
"thank you" is "tak," which u.k. english borrowed (this may be too nice a word for what went on then) in viking times. today it still exists as "ta".
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There is no word in French for "jaywalking". If you want to say it you have to make an awkward phrase like "traverser la rue alors que ce n'est pas permis" or something like that.
Also, interestingly English does not have an official concrete equivalent for the French "dépaysé", which literally means "decountryfied". The closest would probably be the idiomatic "to feel like a fish out of water". I guess it is because people who speak English feel at home everywhere!