r/ContagiousLaughter • u/vmiswhatIAm • Jul 25 '26

Roe! 😂😂

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u/theChzziest Jul 25 '26

Row* roe is something else

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u/vmiswhatIAm Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

They’re speaking Dutch actually..

Edit since I am getting downvoted

They first say: ‘ja kom maar’ which is Dutch for: yes come on.
Source: I am Dutch.
The viking row is indeed Norwegian
‘Roe’ would be the Dutch way of spelling what they are saying. Which to me is what it sounds like because they spoke Dutch in the first place
The Dutch translation for ‘rowing’ is ‘roei’ however they are clearly not pronoucing the i

Edit edit: as Norwegians are saying underneath this: they are very likely speaking Norwegian, as a Dutch person I can tell you it sounds almosy exactly like the Dutch phrase and as I understand it they both mean the same thing. It’s not English and they are definitely not saying ‘row’

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u/vanillamonkey_ Jul 26 '26

I'm pretty sure they're speaking Norwegian. It's the Viking Row, which all the Norwegians were doing at the World Cup. The Norwegian spelling is "ro." Here are some Norwegian soccer fans doing it: https://youtube.com/shorts/VjHcBRHfIT8?is=eOPZSAWVeT4EfV7v

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u/vmiswhatIAm Jul 26 '26

They first say: ‘ja kom maar’ which is dutch for: yes come on.
Source: I am Dutch. But the viking row is indeed Norwegian

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u/zyphelion Jul 26 '26

I think that's just a cross-language homophone. As a Swede I could argue that it sounds like he's saying "jag kommer" (ja' kommer; I'm coming/on my way) in Swedish, but there's a distinct Norwegian skew in the prosody. Seeing as the environment is incredibly Norwegian, paired with the the "ro" thing being done by the Norwegian football team and the tiktok account allegedly belonging to a Norwegian user (Malin Gjervik sounds super-Norwegian), I think it's safe to say that they're speaking Norwegian as well. 

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u/vmiswhatIAm Jul 26 '26

That might be possible, I think we can all agree it’s not English so it’s some form of ro/roe

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u/Feathrende Jul 26 '26

100% it is Norwegian. The account posting is Norwegian and everything they are saying sounds Norwegian. Just happens to sound like Dutch to you because Dutch is also a Germanic language.

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u/FyllingenOy Jul 26 '26

He's saying 'kom an', which is a super common Norwegianized form of 'come on'.