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31 Aug 06 - 06:11 PM (#1823968) Subject: BS: language pyramide From: GUEST,Linguist My hope is to accumulate at least 100 different languages, Say a word in a language (or sentence) that is not listed, write the word meaning and language. instance. me gusta eso-i like that- spanish |
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31 Aug 06 - 06:16 PM (#1823971) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: GUEST http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/understa.htm |
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31 Aug 06 - 06:17 PM (#1823974) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Rapparee u r 0wn3d = you are owned. 1337, d00d! |
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31 Aug 06 - 07:32 PM (#1824049) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Uncle_DaveO German: "Es tut mir leid." Literally, "It does me heavy," but it's an idiom meaning essentially, "I'm sorry," or maybe "I regret." Dave Oesterreich |
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31 Aug 06 - 08:11 PM (#1824082) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: GUEST Fermez la fenetre.....FRENCH ( Close the window.) |
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31 Aug 06 - 08:32 PM (#1824096) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: The Walrus tattú (pron approx: Tattoo) - Hindustani - A native bred pony (From "Hobson-Jobson") Was that what you wanted? W |
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31 Aug 06 - 08:45 PM (#1824104) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: pdq Bini'anit'22tsoh September Navajo |
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31 Aug 06 - 09:15 PM (#1824128) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: number 6 Baton Rouge - - - red stick sIx |
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31 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM (#1824130) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: bobad zaraza-pestilence-Polish |
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31 Aug 06 - 09:56 PM (#1824151) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Bill D "Quatch mit sauce" is a good one for this thread... In German it means, roughly, "bullshit (nonsense) with gravy" i.e....utter BS |
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31 Aug 06 - 10:04 PM (#1824157) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: number 6 dindon --- turkey (french) titars --- turkey (Latvian) sIx |
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01 Sep 06 - 12:23 AM (#1824238) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: GUEST,mack/misophist um gee do - Cantonese - I don't know (spelling aproximate) |
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01 Sep 06 - 12:45 AM (#1824241) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: GUEST,linguist dobar dan-good afternoon-croatian |
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01 Sep 06 - 01:06 AM (#1824246) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Bert 'Salaam Alaikum' - in Arabic, is 'Wotcha Mush' in the East End of London. |
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01 Sep 06 - 04:56 AM (#1824311) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: sian, west wales From what I understand from the website, you want (and I provide, in Welsh): hello - same as 'how are you' how are you? - Sut wyt ti? (informal & singular) Sut ydych chi? (sing. formal and plural) welcome - croeso goodbye - 'Da bo (short for Duw bo gyda ti / chi, God be with you) please - Os gweli di'n dda (informal & singular) Os gwelwch yn dda (sing. formal and plural) what is your name? - Beth yw dy enw? (inf & sing) Beth yw eich enw (sing form & pl) my name is ... - ... yw fy enw i. Do you speak English - Wyt ti'n siarad Saesneg? (inf & sing) Ydych chi'n siarad Saesneg? (sing form & pl) Yes - no simple form; depends on how the question is up No - usually depends on the question, but you can get away with Na or Nage Yr eiddoch yn gywir, siân |
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01 Sep 06 - 04:57 AM (#1824312) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: sian, west wales Ha! Then I forgot, "I don't understand". "Dw i ddim yn deall" Cofion, sian |
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01 Sep 06 - 05:13 AM (#1824323) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Paul Burke Muo nama le Paul- I'm called Paul (Northern Sami). |
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01 Sep 06 - 05:14 AM (#1824324) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Bunnahabhain Stereri Pivo ( spelling approximate on the first word) Four Beers, Sloveneian Evskal Dantza Dance school, Basque. |
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01 Sep 06 - 06:23 AM (#1824352) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: Rusty Dobro 'Cor blaast, bor, there's King Harry out by the hins!' 'I say, young fellow, there's a goldfinch in the vicinity of the chicken enclosure!' (said to me by my Suffolk grandmother.) |
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01 Sep 06 - 06:53 AM (#1824378) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: ragdall Koszonom, nem erdekel. Thank you, I'm not interested. - Hungarian. The Hungarian vowels don't seem to work here. There are two dots over each "o" in Koszonom and a vertical line over the first "e" in erdekel. rags |
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01 Sep 06 - 02:20 PM (#1824787) Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide From: The Walrus "How bona to varda you dolly old eek" - How nice it is to see you "Varda the pallone with the bona lallies and the naff riah". - Look at the girl with the nice legs and bad hair. (Polari*) A theatrical slang of various origins, a mix of backslang, some Romany, Italian and other sources - later popular with the 'gay community' in the days when homosexuality was still illegal (and used as an act by Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick as 'Julian and Sandy' on the BBC's 'Round the Horne') |