#27

In the UK, gotten.
Still lives on in ill-gotten gains, but apart from that, it’s got as far as the eye can see.

#28

OHKO’d
OHKOed?
OHKO’ed?
OHKOd no

#29

I always talk to my students about the brilliant difference between the English and German for having had fun.
I had fun
Ich hatte schpasse gemacht/ I have made fun

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#30

It’s not a tense thing, but my old linguistics tutor - who specialised in Norse - loved telling us how in Norwegian, where words can change meaning depending on the intonation alone, you can think you’ve just said “The farmer is eating the beans”, what you’ve actually said is “The beans are eating the farmer”.

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#31

Twatted

#32

I only really know about tonal languages from languages like Mandarin (?) but that’s really interesting.

#33

It might be a wider Scandinavian trait, now I think about it.
A friend of mine was married to a Swedish diplomat and apparently, Swedes get a bit irked at the Swedish chef off The Muppets because his intonation is Norwegian, not Swedish.

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#35

Get 'um telt!

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#36

Bummed

#37

“thumped”

#38

This is absolutely legit. The words for bean, farmer, and prayer are spelt only slightly differently and the only difference in pronunciation is the intonation.

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#39

Yes! This news makes me very happy.

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#40

NB: only for farmers, plural.

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#41

I was wondering how the verbs worked, tbf.