• Miisha ♀️@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      Forgive me father, for I have slutet 🙏

      Jokes on you (me), I grew up without a dad, which I think makes this slightly funnier…
      …or really, really sad

      • theneverfox@pawb.social
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        21 hours ago

        If you turn a noun into a past participle verb like that, it would mean something like “forgive me father, I have brought about the end”

        There’s a joke in there, I think you’ve got to lean harder on the wordplay

        • Miisha ♀️@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          21 hours ago

          Listen…this was literally the first thought that popped in my head upon seeing this, I wasn’t trying to put effort into it. This is a dumb, dumb joke, even for my usual dumb jokes 😂
          The part about my dad isn’t a joke tho :/

        • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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          2 days ago

          Sluta would be the infinitive, right? And I think, the imperative has no separate form anymore but in Norwegian it might have survived

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            2 days ago

            I don’t know the terminology in grammar, but if I were to translate “to stop” to swedish it would be “att sluta”, and “stop it!” would be “sluta!”