BS: language pyramide

Subject: BS: language pyramide
From: GUEST,Linguist
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:11 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:16 PM

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/understa.htm

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 06:17 PM

u r 0wn3d = you are owned. 1337, d00d!

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 07:32 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 08:11 PM

Fermez la fenetre.....FRENCH ( Close the window.)

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: The Walrus
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 08:32 PM

tattú (pron approx: Tattoo) - Hindustani - A native bred pony
(From "Hobson-Jobson")


Was that what you wanted?

W

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: pdq
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 08:45 PM

Bini'anit'22tsoh                              September                      Navajo

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:15 PM

Baton Rouge - - - red stick

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: bobad
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:21 PM

zaraza-pestilence-Polish

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 09:56 PM

"Quatch mit sauce" is a good one for this thread...

In German it means, roughly, "bullshit (nonsense) with gravy" i.e....utter BS

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: number 6
Date: 31 Aug 06 - 10:04 PM

dindon --- turkey   (french)

titars --- turkey   (Latvian)

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:23 AM

um gee do - Cantonese - I don't know (spelling aproximate)

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: GUEST,linguist
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 12:45 AM

dobar dan-good afternoon-croatian

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Bert
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 01:06 AM

'Salaam Alaikum' - in Arabic, is 'Wotcha Mush' in the East End of London.

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: sian, west wales
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 04:56 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: sian, west wales
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 04:57 AM

Ha! Then I forgot, "I don't understand".

"Dw i ddim yn deall"

Cofion,
sian

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 05:13 AM

Muo nama le Paul- I'm called Paul (Northern Sami).

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 05:14 AM

Stereri Pivo ( spelling approximate on the first word)
Four Beers, Sloveneian

Evskal Dantza
Dance school, Basque.

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 06:23 AM

'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.)

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: ragdall
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 06:53 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: language pyramide
From: The Walrus
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 02:20 PM

"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')