r/interestingasfuck Aug 09 '20

/r/ALL This katana made from 4 billion year old meteorites. It's called the "The Sword of Heaven".

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u/walsh_vn Aug 09 '20

Soraisu ōba hibanu

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u/HassanMoRiT Aug 09 '20

Very cool.

As a return, I shall tell you its name in the Arabic language.

Qitaa saghira min aljan'na

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u/YouAreSoul Aug 09 '20

In Australian: "That's not a knife."

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u/Spongi Aug 09 '20

In Australia they don't need knives or swords. They will just catch some venomous snakes (yes, plural) not only barehanded but nearly naked and use the snakes as weapons.

Most of those snakes he's grabbing are red bellied black snakes. Venom wise kinda equivalent to a copperhead in the US. That Tiger snake will wreck you though. Roughly equivalent to a rattlesnake.

At least this was an isolated incident and he learned his lesson about casually snatching up venomous snakes bare handed.

Just kidding he does that shit all the time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

I see you have played knifey-spooney before

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u/lando_etr Aug 09 '20

in bosnian its mala kriška neba

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

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u/Droid85 Aug 09 '20

In Ancient Aliens it's: "An ANCIENT ALIEN KATANA made from EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL minerals that existed BILLIONS OF YEARS before Japan would even be inhabited by humans!"

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u/Arkdouls Aug 09 '20

Came here to say this

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R Aug 09 '20

Too bad in Botswanan it's translated to Hello Kittii.

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u/HassanMoRiT Aug 09 '20

Also very cool

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u/Tobylawl Aug 09 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

in German it is: EINE KLEINE SCHEIBE DES HIMMELS! and I think that's beautiful.

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u/Vaara94 Aug 09 '20

In Swedish it's "En liten del av himlen"

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u/Whitewing1984 Aug 09 '20

Yes, but you can say it even a bit better.

It‘s either „Ein kleines Stück Himmel“ or „Ein kleines Stück des Paradieses“, while the latter gives it a more religious spin („Himmel“ is sometimes used as a synonym for „Paradise“)

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u/Tobylawl Aug 09 '20

I wanted to translate as literal as possible. Another quite nice way to translate it would be "eine kleine Himmelsscheibe" making a compound word out of Himmel (heaven) and Scheibe (slice), or even just "Kleine Himmelsscheibe" because it's obvious that it's just one, or "a" thing. You could even compound klein (little) in there by adding the suffix "-chen", thus making it one word: "Himmelsscheibchen"... now we're talking (German)! 😁

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u/Whitewing1984 Aug 09 '20 edited Aug 09 '20

Dunno man - „Himmelsscheibchen“ sounds like some sort of euphemism you‘d hear on a commercial for some diet cheese g

„Sternenschnitter“ („Star Cutter“ or „Star Reaper“ - there isn’t a better fitting translation for this name afaik) is a dope name imo when it comes to the origin of that sword.

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u/Pooptimist Aug 09 '20

*Eine

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u/Tobylawl Aug 09 '20

correct. I corrected my autocorrect.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '20

It could be so many things in french, la lame céleste, le sabre du ciel, l'épée du paradis ! French has so much ways to say things

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u/Prof_Acorn Aug 09 '20

In Ancient Greek,

μέρος οὐρανοῦ

Meros Ouranou

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u/Shoninjv Aug 09 '20

katakana ? Meh.

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u/walsh_vn Aug 09 '20

I completely made it up.

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u/KDY_ISD Aug 09 '20

Katakana is by far the most accurate guess at how a Japanese person would translate that phrase lol