# The official language thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-topic\ **Created:** [April 3, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524 "2018-04-03T11:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 49
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/965 "2018-08-28T19:31:07Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > I wonder why English doesn’t have yesternight and yestermorn(ing). 😃 I have no idea - I like the sound of both of those 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/966 "2018-08-28T19:37:02Z")
> [@tasse-tee](#): > > > [@Frenzie](#): > > > > I wonder why English doesn’t have yesternight and yestermorn(ing). 😃 > > I have no idea - I like the sound of both of those 😃 I seem to think we used to have words like that a long time ago, and they died out. I remember seeing an article about similar words and thinking, I wish we still used those! It was probably Merriam-Webster on Twitter or something 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Guga](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/guga/32/14476_2.png) [@Guga](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Guga)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/967 "2018-08-28T19:38:26Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > my wife’s doing some Dutch on Memrise Funny, because I thought that Italians were the ones always talking about food. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/968 "2018-08-28T20:25:34Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > It was probably Merriam-Webster on Twitter or something 😉 In any case they have an entry on it, calling it archaic but also with a first known attestation from before the 11th century. > **[Definition of YESTERNIGHT](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yesternight)** > > on the night last past… See the full definition > **[Definition of YESTERMORN](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yestermorn)** > > on the morning of yesterday… See the full definition > [@Guga](#): > > Funny, because I thought that Italians were the ones always talking about food. I’ll submit a correction to Memrise: Italianen praten dolgraag te pas en te onpas over eten. (Italians adore talking about food whether appropriate or not.) ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/969 "2018-08-28T20:33:17Z")
Gisternacht? 🤔 I’d use “vannacht” or “gisteren nacht”. Then again, I’d also use “piste” instead of “plaste” 🙂 And the past tense also sounds weird. We’d say: “Ik heb vannacht in mijn bed gepist.” Anyway all for the sake of the example given, my bladder control is fine! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/970 "2018-08-28T20:47:27Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > I wonder why English doesn’t have yesternight and yestermorn(ing). 😃 Same here. 🙂 I also wondered why there is no word for “the day after tomorrow”. In Germany we have “übermorgen” (= “overtomorrow”). ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/971 "2018-08-28T20:53:22Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > I also wondered why there is no word for “the day after tomorrow”. In Germany we have “übermorgen” (= “overtomorrow”). And “vorgestern”, for “the day before yesterday”. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/972 "2018-08-28T20:57:57Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > I’d use “vannacht” or “gisteren nacht”. Yes, Belgians use gisterennacht; in the Netherlands gisternacht is more common. > [@Sushi](#): > > “Ik heb vannacht in mijn bed gepist.” Pissen is cruder than plassen. The sensitive English even shortered piss to p. 😉 > [@Someone](#): > > “übermorgen” (= “overtomorrow”). Overmorrow (overmorgen) is the same word in Dutch. > [@tasse-tee](#): > > And “vorgestern”, for “the day before yesterday”. Eergister(en). Works in English too: ereyester(day). The German foreyester(day) works in English as well, of course. ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/973 "2018-08-28T21:01:27Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > In any case they have an entry on it, calling it archaic but also with a first known attestation from before the 11th century. Oh cool, turns out my memory is more reliable than I thought it was! I like the idea of words for the day after tomorrow and the day before yesterday. I guess any further than that and it’d get complicated 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/974 "2018-08-28T21:03:25Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > I guess any further than that and it’d get complicated 🤨 In Germany you can say “überübermorgen” for the day after the day after tomorrow. But we don’t have a “überüberübermorgen”. 🙂 /edit: And we have “vorvorgestern” for the day before the day before yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/975 "2018-08-28T21:04:05Z")
> [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > any further than that and it’d get complicated 🤨 We do use “over-overmorgen” too in spoken language, or eer-eergisteren. But it is rather when you start saying the word and realise you’re off by a day, so you just add one more. ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/976 "2018-08-28T21:06:23Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > In Germany you can say “überübermorgen” for the day after the day after tomorrow. But we don’t have a “überüberübermorgen”. 🙂 > > /edit: And we have “vorvorgestern” for the day before the day before yesterday. If it’s like Dutch then like @Sushi you _can_ but in writing or more careful speech you’d probably say something like in three days/three days ago instead. ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/977 "2018-08-28T21:08:22Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > Pissen is cruder than plassen. The sensitive English even shortered piss to p. 😉 Really? I did not know that… but it makes sense. Also, they’d rather say “I wet my bed last night” , as if the source of said wetness could equally have been leaving the window open during a rain or something. ---
**Author:** ![tasse-tee](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/tasse-tee/32/4002_2.png) [@tasse-tee](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/tasse-tee)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/978 "2018-08-28T21:10:02Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > Also, they’d rather say “I wet my bed last night” , as if the source of said wetness could equally have been leaving the window open during a rain or something. Indeed 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/979 "2018-08-28T21:10:49Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > If it’s like Dutch then like @Sushi you _can_ but in writing or more careful speech you’d probably say something like in three days/three days ago instead. You can use “überübermorgen” in writings but that’s not common. But it’s a “normal” word and [in the Duden](https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ueberuebermorgen). ---
**Author:** ![Someone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Someone](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Someone)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/980 "2018-08-28T21:12:07Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > Also, they’d rather say “I wet my bed last night” … We Germans say something similar … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/981 "2018-08-28T21:12:12Z")
Talking about euphemisms and peeing, we also say “washing my hands” while we mean “going to the toilet (to pee)”. If you have a rich imagination… that’s not how you’re supposed to wash your hands! 🤨😁 ---
**Author:** ![PiecesOfKate](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/piecesofkate/32/93_2.png) [@PiecesOfKate](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/PiecesOfKate)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/982 "2018-08-28T21:14:24Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > > [@PiecesOfKate](#): > > > > I guess any further than that and it’d get complicated 🤨 > > In Germany you can say “überübermorgen” for the day after the day after tomorrow. But we don’t have a “überüberübermorgen”. 🙂 > > /edit: And we have “vorvorgestern” for the day before the day before yesterday. > [@Sushi](#): > > We do use “over-overmorgen” too in spoken language, or eer-eergisteren. Wow. 🤯 ---
**Author:** ![Frenzie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/frenzie/32/4416_2.png) [@Frenzie](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Frenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/983 "2018-08-28T21:15:43Z")
> [@Sushi](#): > > we also say “washing my hands” while we mean “going to the toilet”. Incidentally, I hadn’t heard that one before I moved to Belgium. > [@Sushi](#): > > If you have a rich imagination… 🤨 😁 At our elementary school there were these signs in and/or around the toilets (bathroom/restroom…) that said “handen wassen na het plassen.” Of course that was turned around at first sight. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Sushi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/sushi/32/163_2.png) [@Sushi](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Sushi)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524/984 "2018-08-28T21:17:15Z")
> [@Frenzie](#): > > Incidentally, I hadn’t heard that one before I moved to Belgium Yeah, it’s a typical Flemish expression. [Previous page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524.md?page=48) [Next page](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/the-official-language-thread/2524.md?page=50)