Samuel L. Jackson Will Teach You to Swear in 15 Languages

[Celerity]

He did it to make good on a promise to people who were registering to vote.

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/samuel-l-jackson-swearing-lseson-twitter



It's probably a testament to what a strong actor he is that just hearing Samuel L. Jackson swear has become a pleasurable activity. Maybe it's just the way he says something like, "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?" Maybe it just transports you back to the best moments of movies like Snakes on a Plane or Deep Blue Sea. Maybe you like sweary bedtime stories. Obviously, Jackson has long been aware of this. But over the last week, he has used his proficiency in curse words for good. He promised to teach his followers on Twitter how to swear in 15 different languages in exchange for people getting ready to vote in the 2020 election.

Link to tweet

"Listen up," he tweeted. "If 2,5000 of you click a voting action below to make sure you're #GoodToVote, I will teach you to swear in 15 different languages. Go to headcount.org/samjackson now!" For someone with the kind of reach Jackson has, it wasn't a huge threshold to cross. (Of course, every extra person anyone gets to engage in the upcoming election is a good thing.) Each person who went to the page either had to register to vote, check their registration status, or complete a plan to vote. A representative from Headcount tells Thrillist that they cleared the goal by quite a bit. Jackson's campaign prompted 8,060 people to take action, the organization said.

Link to tweet

In response to his success, Jackson delivered on his promise. "You showed up and showed out for our voter action goals," he said in a follow-up video. "Now, time for me to hold up my end of that bargain. Let's do some cussing in 15 languages." Jackson proceeded to run through curses in Basque, Icelandic, Maori, Nepali, Swahili, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Esperanto, Bemba, Catalan, Thai, and other languages. However, the video doesn't offer translations, so you'll have to look up each phrase before giving it a try yourself. Some people in the replies offered translations, but trusting random responses on Twitter is a game for people who like to live dangerously.

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[yankeepants]

1. Love you Sam. An American icon.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Sammy L for the win!

[NNadir]

3. I shared this with my son, who speaks a number of languages...

...and he loved it.

I called him and he began cursing at me in some of the languages.

Jackson did a great job!

Thanks for this.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I think the first one, Icelandic, says something like,

"you get it in the asshole."

[Celerity]

5. yes, it is a common way to say 'fuck you' in Icelandic

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Thought it might be something like that -

"Du far" in Norwegian is "you get," and "rasshull" is a word for "asshole." As weird as Icelandic is, you can often suss it out from other Scandinavian words.

[Celerity]

7. it's the closest active language to Old Norse, which is the mother tongue of Scandinavia

Faroese aka føroyskt mál, is the 2nd closest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse

The 12th-century Icelandic Gray Goose Laws state that Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders, and Danes spoke the same language, dǫnsk tunga ("Danish tongue"; speakers of Old East Norse would have said dansk tunga). Another term was norrœnt mál ("northern speech&quot . Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, of which Norwegian, Danish and Swedish retain considerable mutual intelligibility.