dlish

What we need here is a bit of diversity. so im proposing everyone post something in another language, and maybe we could learn something new.

many of us here have travelled abroad or have a mixed heritage or ethnicity. so im interested in seeing the different languages people know here. it doesnt have to be your mother tongue, it could be something you heard from a friend. just let us know what it means, and in what language as well as how to pronounce it or any other relevant information.


Marhaban bika ila TFP!

welcome to TFP (transliterated arabic)

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

uncle phil

de gustibus non est disputandum...

(latin - there's no accounting for taste...)

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Xazy

Tut Mir Hano’eh (Hebrew)

It gives me pleasure.

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Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

KirStang

大家好！
(Dah Jia Hao)

Hello Everyone!

Baraka_Guru

Je pense donc je suis.

[zhuh pahns dawnk zhuh swee]

(Fr. "I think therefore I am.")


Note: French is supposed to be my second language. I live in Ontario, which is next to Québec, a predominantly French-speaking province. Canada's two official languages are English and French. One fifth of the country prefers French as their native tongue. My last name is French, as my heritage is partly Québecois. I'm anglophone, however.

Our school system teaches French throughout elementary school. It is mandatory to acquire 1 credit in French as a second language to graduate high school. I myself attended a French immersion program for grades 7 and 8, and even went to Québec City and Montréal on field trips to practice the language. I continued to study French through high school until grade 12. I dropped out of OAC (grade 13, Ontario Academic Credit—now discontnued) French, being a slacker at the time, but the successful completion of that credit would have earned myself a certificate from the government, stating my official bilingualism.

One of my favourite films is Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (known simply as Amélie in English). Though I admit I've seen very few French films.

My French is rusty. I've been meaning to brush up, but keep putting it off. I should use the books I acquired for that purpose....and should watch more French films.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

"It is what it is."
[It iz waht it iz.]

__lost in translation__

- American military-based dialect of English

...

If you get what it means, you get what it means.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

KirStang

Yo tengo un gato en fuego en mis pantalones?

I have a cat on fire in my pants.

/Blue Streak Reference.

Baraka_Guru

Wut?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

Exactly.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

EventHorizon

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100

"Hello World"

-robot speak

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

Ourcrazymodern?

silflay hraka u embleer rah.

probably spelled wrong, but it's been many years since i read Watership Down.

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

Martian

I also need to brush up on my French.

Perhaps we can assist one another.

Je ne le parles suffit.

(I do not speak it enough)

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

EventHorizon

does anyone speak klingon?

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

snowy

Donde estan los llaves para mi coche? Yo necesito mis llaves para conducir mi coche.

Tal vez yo necesito mas cafe.

(Where are the keys to my car? I need my keys to drive my car. Maybe I need more coffee.)

Man, my Spanish is rusty. I've been practicing at work with 2-year-old bilingual students of mine. They're very happy to help.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Baraka_Guru

I don't speak Klingon, but one of my poetry professors created the alien language for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Ourcrazymodern?

In a couple hundred years
we'll probably see that we were stupid
& share a couple chuckles.

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BE JUST AND FEAR NOT

KellyC

これは日本語 = This is Japanese

Đây là tiếng Việt. = This is Vietnamese.

Note: Vietnamese is my first language and I've been learning Japanese for the past year. My Japanese's progress is going...very...very...slow because I have no one to practice with.

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Him: Ok, I have to ask, what do you believe?
Me: Shit happens.

ironpham

Vietnamese is technically my first language too. Now, I only remember how to say things that deal with foods and pooping.

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SIGNATURE.

FuriousAvatar

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
-Pope John XXIII

inBOIL

Cытый голодново не разумеет

(Sytyy golodnovo ne razumeyet)

The full man does not understand the hungry man.

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

noodle

satan's javla rovhol.

I think that's how you spell it.

sah-tahn's yah-vlah rove-hull

"Satan's flaming asshole" in Sweden. My favorite curse ever.

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ring

I know two Serbian words.
My dad's Colonel was Serbian.
Many years ago, they stood outside smoking their cigars one evening.
Surveying the previous night's frost damage, Colonel Dan turned to my father
and announced: "Your vrt is smrt."

vrt = garden------ smrt = deceased

Baraka_Guru

If you confuse a book editor using plain English, something has gone seriously wrong. However, you should see some of the messes I've untangled. It's amazing how it seems like I read people's minds by essentially guessing at their meaning.

As an example, reducing a sentence by 50% or more while somehow giving it more meaning is enough to give most editors a linguistic orgasm.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

EventHorizon

that reminds of of that part in the movie Zoolander where jennifer anniston's character admits she was once bulemic and ben still and owen wilson look at her with utter fascination and gasp:

"you can read minds?!?!"

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

Grasshopper Green

Haben sie ein zimmer frei? Ja, hier ist die schlussel. (Do you have a room free? Yes, here is the key)

Out of all the German phrases I learned in school, that one stuck with me.

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"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Formerly Medusa

Pearl Trade

SOCKS. Spanish for "it is what it is." Got 'em.

Hallo! Ich heise Dieter. Wie geht es dir?

German (Deutsch) for "Hello! My name is Dieter. How are you?"

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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Give me convenience or give me death!

uncle phil

gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum summus..."

"let us rejoice, while we are young..."

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

noodle

First phrase I ever learned...





and this one with two fingers up instead of one, and point to the other person...

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Willravel

Hindi ako nagasalita nong Tagalog.

genuinegirly

Quiero andar en bicicleta.
Spanish: I want to ride a bike.

Women chi meguofan.
Mandarin: We eat American food.

Je veux danser.
French: I want to dance.

3 years of high school Spanish coupled with growing up in SoCal, you'd think I would understand more Spanish. 1 summer course in beginning Mandarin, I never admit to it, but it means I can occasionally understand a word or two that I overhear from the lab next-door. Too many years of French to keep track, but I'm terrible with it all the same.

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"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq

"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

Meetredmeat

Hélas! Une corne d'abondance de l'amour!
French: alas! A cornucopia of love! (Potter Puppet Pals)

Stierscheisse
German: bullshit

I was never one for retaining foreign languages if it wasn't my idea, and the above was about all that I walked away with from French class. That valuable bit of German was taught to me by a friend.

Xerxys

Italian:Parli Americano?

Do you speak American?

dlish

tunda parni...jaldi!

hindi: cold water..quickly!

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

dksuddeth

戦士クリード

"今日はとても日にされている場合、それをすること。あなたは私はそれが十分ではない可能性があります。与えることができるAMベストが表示されますこの日は私と一緒に戦闘を行うに求めるなら、私がしなければならないこと、それがすべてされます与えると、それが印象的です。私は絶えず私は、訓練してきた穴をあけ、そして、私はあなたは私がピーク体調で自分を保持している破る最高のチャンスがあるかもしれないので、自分の行動をリハーサルこの日のために自分を用意して、自分で教育を武術スキルと守備戦術のアプリケーションで堪能になっている。あなたは私を打ち負かすことがありますが、厳しい価格を支払うことになる、あなたの人生でエスケープします。あなたは私を殺すかもしれない幸運されますが、私は必要に応じて死ぬことを喜んでいます。私は、十分な機会に十分近いことにされているため、私はそれはもはや問題は私。しかし、私はしないと私の名誉の損失を恐れているむしろそれは私が勇気もなかったと語っているよりも戦って死ぬだろうと、死を恐れていないのでそれが必要であれば私は順序では、私が戦士ではなかったことが私の言うことがないことは、死とは、どのように克服できないと思われるでしょうがどんなにあなたを戦うことになる。"

translated:

Warrior Creed

"If today is to be THE DAY, so be it. If you seek to do battle with me this day you will receive the best that I am capable of giving. It may not be enough, but it will be everything that I have to give and it will be impressive. I have constantly prepared myself for this day. I have trained, drilled, and rehearsed my actions so that I might have the best chance of defeating you. I have kept myself in peak physical condition, schooled myself in the martial skills and have become proficient in the application of defensive tactics. You may defeat me, but you will pay a severe price and will be lucky to escape with your life. You may kill me, but I am willing to die if necessary. I do not fear Death, for I have been close enough to it on enough occasions that it no longer concerns me. But I do fear the loss of my Honor and would rather die fighting than to have it said that I was without Courage. So I WILL FIGHT YOU, no matter how insurmountable it may seem, and to the death if it need be, in order that it may never be said of me that I was not a Warrior."

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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

BadNick

Én tuduk beszélni egy kicsit Magyarul. = I can speak a little bit of Hungarian.


I used to be fluent when I was a kid and we spoke that at home, but now that I only speak it when visiting my fluency has fallen off. Plus, ironically, my mom speaks to me in English as I'm trying to speak with her in Hungarian.

Pearl Trade

Wie sind wir? "Who are we?" in German.

DK, my computer showed up with little squares for your language in your post, except for an "AM" in the beginning. What language was it? I'll guess an Asian language, since the squares show up for pretty much every Asian language.

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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Give me convenience or give me death!

Lindy

Baraka, you must be a very cunning linguist. Whatever tongue you chose to use.

Lindy

ring

On my mom's old laptop here, I see many question marks & not the squares.
I recall DK mentioning his part Cherokee heritage. Perhaps that was his intent.
We want knowings!

uncle phil

they appear to be chinese characters...

http://onewarriorscreed.com/

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
-----------------------------------------
never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

dksuddeth

it's japanese

---------- Post added at 03:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:09 PM ----------

I wish. I have not been able to locate a really good cherokee alphabet or translator.

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"no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."