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[–] 95 points 2 months ago* (15 children)

Ya, I get it that this is the whole joke of the post, but I'm bemused to discover that I'm a slutt datafag.
I had not anticipated climbing to such a pinnacle in my lifetime.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

    I have never heard anyone call computer science "datafag", it's usually called "informatikk" (like "informatics" which you can also say in English), and "slutt" just means end or stop, I have never heard anyone use it to refer to graduating.

    "Fag" does mean "subject" or "field of study", though, so computer science is a "fag", and it might be considered a "realfag" along with the natural sciences, I don't know.

    Edit: I got corrected below, "datafag" is real

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    What newfags and oldfags? Can one triforce while the other cannot?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Shit... now I want to know what triforcing is

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My dad did 'datafag' some 50 years ago, at least I think they called it that. It was the era of 'hullkort' (punchcards). Also I think it should be sluttdatafag all in one word. I seem to remember some old folks referring to graduate degrees as sluttfag. I dont think anyone has ever put 'data' in the middle there though. Sounds like AI hallucination.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You are right, in fact it's still possible to study datafag, I stand corrected: https://uit.no/utdanning/program/795103/informatikk_datafag_-_bachelor

    With regards to "sluttfag", I couldn't find anything real, but Google's AI summary says "Et sluttfag er et fag på videregående skole som blir avsluttet med en standpunktkarakter det gjeldende skoleåret" - so it's the final year of a subject that gives you a grade on your high-school diploma... according to a language model :l

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    To pull you back just a little "slutt datafag" is an expression for the subject which you are graduating. Or maybe google reads it as a verb + noun, since "slutt" means "stop" or "end" and assumes that "end" means "graduate" in this context. Anyways I don't think it makes sense as a description for a person.

    But you are free to call yourself a "fagperson". This is a very common phrase to describe a person with education.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Bottom one is more stop/end computer class, does not imply graduation, though fag is generally used as tradecraft. Which makes the books you use for it fag literature.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Btw, where did faggot come from?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Fag in Norwegians has norse origins while faggot developed independently and only recently become a slur and come out of American vernacular.

    In older English it was used to mean a burdensome person and it's sort of resumed that meaning as it's now often used to mean someone who is annoying.

    Adding a fun double entendre when used to describe a homophobic person.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago* (2 children)
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    New datafag cannot triforce!

    Neither can I, special characters misbehave here :( lol

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Realfag is the study of natural sciences and mathematics

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Just wait until you hear about the swedish slutstation

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Swedes don't count - from a Norwegian

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    This is true. I'm like half Swedish, and I am a musician. I do not count. I listen for my cue and learn the tune instead of counting rests.

    My boss put me on inventory once when I kept coming up with a different number of mops in the storeroom.

    For the record, we had one.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    On graduation, you get a fursuit

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    Just wait till you hear about popular Norwegian names, like Simen (pronounced exactly the way you think).

    Also make sure you mind your fart when on the road. Norwegian police are quite strict about that and could give you a fartsbot if you don't comply.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    lol reminds me of when I worked in education; there was this hearing impaired kid. On the playground they're playing shop, his dad must have been a construction worker or something. He yells at the top of his voice, does anyone want to buy some Simen (He was trying to say cement)? We, staff, had to discuss should we let him know or not, went with just laughing it off.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Slutt is end not graduate

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Does that mean I became a slutt on graduation day?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    The irony is i was a total slut for both data and sex

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Datafag Slut sounds like some kink. Kinkshaming is not nice.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Are you sure that English isn't the weird one here?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Something something back end

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Wait, it's slutt datafag? What's datafag slutt? I get word order can completely change meaning in some languages. I just haven't learned much of the Scandinavian language families so I don't know the structure.

    Does it get more computery or do we get something naughty?

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