Livingstone 12:15 Wed Nov 5
Great words in Foreign languages
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Phacochère
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Warthog
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HairySpotter
5:13 Sun Nov 9
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Going by a thread recently, i have always like the American for Aeroplane, they call it "airplane" which is FAR more a suitable name!!
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,
5:11 Sun Nov 9
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I like the German word for a vacuum cleaner. They literally call this device a dust [ staub] sucker [ verb saugen; to suck ]
Vacuum cleaner pronounced shtowbsowgen and spelled staubsaugen.
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Hammer and Pickle
4:52 Sun Nov 9
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mashed in maryland 3:39 Sun Nov 9
Ha!
Ja ja - mit der jungen kartofelkopf vippersnapper ping-pong shpeelen.
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Nurse Ratched
3:51 Sun Nov 9
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I find French vowels (when French people are speaking French) really ugly.
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Nurse Ratched
3:49 Sun Nov 9
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S' ok. Nothing spesh.
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Saul Bollox
3:48 Sun Nov 9
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NR What do you think of French men talking English?
French women talking English is the most sexy accent, but French men talking it are the most gay sounding.
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Nurse Ratched
3:43 Sun Nov 9
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German is not in Infidel's repertoire. Quite a few other languages are, though.
Plus you miss the point. They would be ENGLISH men. Not Germs.
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Far Cough
3:41 Sun Nov 9
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That was in response to thrashed in claryland
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Far Cough
3:40 Sun Nov 9
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Nein, wir sind nicht
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Saul Bollox
3:40 Sun Nov 9
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The word in french for to crash (computer) is
Bugger
I also like their word for gay:
Homo
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mashed in maryland
3:39 Sun Nov 9
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Infidel and the rest of WHO's sad middle aged old fart brigade are gonna come along in a minute and start posting in German now.
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Nurse Ratched
3:37 Sun Nov 9
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Mashed, I thought I was the only person who noticed how camp German men sound when they speak English.
Yet German men generally (when speaking German) make me go weak at the knees.
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The Ghost of Braderz
3:33 Sun Nov 9
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The Russian for star is Zvezda
Love that. Sounds like what it describes.
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mashed in maryland
3:26 Sun Nov 9
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Kraut is the best sounding language I reckon.
Gayest sounding accent when speaking English though.
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Livingstone
8:30 Sun Nov 9
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FMOB this has all got a bit technical
Phoc
Seal
French
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gph
6:23 Sun Nov 9
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You're getting your Schades and Schadens mixed up, H+P
Schade! = Pity!
Schaden = damage
So, damage-joy
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Far East Hammer
5:06 Sun Nov 9
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gph 11:09 Sat Nov 8
I believe that Ancient Greek also had single/ dual/ plural
And Arabic still does. To form a double, simply add -ein or -tein onto the end. However, to form a plural, this involves suffixes and/or internal vowel replacement. There are I believe 30-odd "regular" ways of forming a plural...
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Briano
10:03 Sat Nov 8
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Just read down, already done by SD
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Hammer and Pickle
10:03 Sat Nov 8
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Pity joy.
Interesting.
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Briano
10:02 Sat Nov 8
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The Teutonic Schadenfreude exists in Germany and Scandinavia but in not English.
To take an almost perverse pleasure in another's misfortune and sum it up in one word is genius.
For that reason I take my hat off to our kraut friends.
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