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[DaGaffer]

Was i talking about influenza? No, i was talking about the flu(as was the first quoted thing on this whole chain), different things.

No they're not, what the fuck are you talking about?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Actually it seems that in english there's no differentiation between a flu and influenza, in Finnish the flu is basically common cold and influenza is the nastier ones. Explains the miscommunication

Was talking about the common cold, as per context.

 

[DaGaffer]

Actually it seems that in english there's no differentiation between a flu and influenza, in Finnish the flu is basically common cold and influenza is the nastier ones. Explains the miscommunication

Was talking about the common cold, as per context.

Clue is in the name: influenza

 

[Ch3tan]

Was i talking about influenza? No, i was talking about the flu(as was the first quoted thing on this whole chain), different things.

When the facepalm smiley is not enough!

 

[opticle]

Was i talking about influenza? No, i was talking about the flu(as was the first quoted thing on this whole chain), different things.

Dude..its called inFLUenza..

Edit: Just saw your second reply

 

[old.Tohtori]

Clue is in the name: influenza

Clue is in language differences. these things happen, bet there'd be a few if you tried to explain things in Finnish

Atleast i took the time to find out if there's a possible problem that can be explained before arguing about this for pages on end

 

[old.Tohtori]

Back on topic;

Selecting between two groups of friends who decide to have a halloween party on the same night, carefully executed so that they overlap completely

 

[Scouse]

Was i talking about influenza? No, i was talking about the flu...

Influenza, commonly known as the flu

He's talking shit, as usual, Gaff...


Edit: Oh, he's played the language card - his last resort when he can't find an obvious way out of his fuckup - normally he tells us his engrish is amazing...

 

[Ch3tan]

Back on topic;

Selecting between two groups of friends who decide to have a halloween party on the same night, carefully executed so that they overlap completely

Go to both?

 

[old.Tohtori]

As said, overlapping. Would also mean an hours travel between the two. Might as well compromise and stay home and meet all at the bar later

As for you Scouse, you still need to learn that knowing a language doesn't mean that you understand all the ways of it. This being a perfect example.

On that note;

People who don't notice context.

 

[Scouse]

This being a perfect example

Why didn't you just admit that you didn't know that flu = influenza and that you were wrong?

According to google translate it's influenssa in Finnish - so is hardly that different...

 

[old.Tohtori]

I said i didn't know that you don't have the same difference between a flu and influenza. That was after my post though as i tried to find out if there's a difference in language(which there was).

I wasn't wrong in anything i said though, i was talking about the common cold, which is flunssa in Finnish, which translates to flu in english while influenssa translates to influenza and in Finnish influenssa and flunssa are different.

See how this might cause a problem?

 

[Scouse]

I stand corrected

 

[MYstIC G]

As said, overlapping. Would also mean an hours travel between the two. Might as well compromise and stay home and meet all at the bar later

As for you Scouse, you still need to learn that knowing a language doesn't mean that you understand all the ways of it. This being a perfect example.

On that note;

People who don't notice context.

You should totally go to both...

Spoiler

That way each group gets exactly one hour without you there

 

[old.Tohtori]

Problem solved; sent both party people a message saying i'm not sure if i can make it, hoping one of them gets uppity about it so i can "get angry" and go to the other

Trolling solves everything.

 

[Ch3tan]

Meh, they are friends. I'd just be honest and say I don't think I can make both, pick one by flipping a coin and meet the others later in town anyway

 

[Raven]

Both will probably be shit, themed partys usually are.

 

[DaGaffer]

I said i didn't know that you don't have the same difference between a flu and influenza. That was after my post though as i tried to find out if there's a difference in language(which there was).

I wasn't wrong in anything i said though, i was talking about the common cold, which is flunssa in Finnish, which translates to flu in english while influenssa translates to influenza and in Finnish influenssa and flunssa are different.

See how this might cause a problem?

In this case you're going to have to take one for the team, the "team" being all of Finland. If flunssa means cold and flu, (which, fair enough, according to Google, it does) then that's retarded, since they're completely different diseases. So you were still wrong, just wrong in the company of 5 million others.

 

[dysfunction]

How can you say that? You have no idea the nuances of the Finnish language.

Doing a Google search doesn't cut it.

 

[DaGaffer]

How can you say that? You have no idea the nuances of the Finnish language.

Doing a Google search doesn't cut it.

Yes it does in context. Since Toht is claiming it means both things and Google is backing him up, then yeah, calling two different diseases by the same name is dumb (or Toht is lying, in which case he's dumb). "Nuances of Finnish" doesn't matter does it?

 

[dysfunction]

Yes it does in context. Since Toht is claiming it means both things and Google is backing him up, then yeah, calling two different diseases by the same name is dumb (or Toht is lying, in which case he's dumb). "Nuances of Finnish" doesn't matter does it?

No he says one is a cold the other is influenza and that they are not the same which is why he thought flu and influenza were different.

 

[DaGaffer]

No he says one is a cold the other is influenza and that they are not the same which is why he thought flu and influenza were different.

No he's not. Read it again.

 

[dysfunction]

No he's not. Read it again.

Yes he is!!

the common cold, which is flunssa in Finnish, which translates to flu in english while influenssa translates to influenza and in Finnish influenssa and flunssa are different.

That's what I wrote in my previous post just in different words.

 

[old.Tohtori]

(or Toht is lying, in which case he's dumb)

Hey!

I can be dumb and honest

 

[dysfunction]

Yeah you tell him!!

 

[Ormorof]

wouldnt Flunssa mean in the Flun?!? what the hell is a Flun?!?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Hah yeah i guess if you look at it that way it does

-ssa usually means "in something", as in talo=house, talossa= in house. Though we do have singular words that have an -ssa too, like kissa(cat), flunssa and such, so if you have something in a cat it's kissa-ssa.

As an added bonus; since a kisa means race, kissa means cat, flunssa means cold and -ssa means "in/at something"....ahem...

Flunssassa kissakisassa.

 

[Scouse]

Flunssa translates to "a cold" in English - not flu. Influenssa translates to flu or influenza.

So this:

the common cold, which is flunssa in Finnish, which translates to flu in english

Is the problem...

 

[Raven]

People going on and on about some inane point like the definition of flu in different languages and shit.

 

[opticle]

As an added bonus; since a kisa means race, kissa means cat, flunssa means cold and -ssa means "in/at something"....ahem...

Flunssassa kissakisassa.

I don't get it