Translation thread

[TNT]

QUOTE sasha-dono Posted on Feb 9 2005, 02:20 AM
Awesome! Wait... Why is everyone here Dutch and Portugese? *Feels alone*

I thought we were having so much fun excluding Sasha, we'd might as well attempt another thread where we can do that.

How about translating phrases from and to different languages/dialects.

Speaking of dialects, im curious. Are there greatly different dialects in English, other then Scottish/Whelsh ad Irish? Like how we in Zeeland (a small province in the south west of the Netherlands) speakvery different from other parts in Holland?

Any cool accents i should know about?

 

[sasha]

Awe, you're so sweet

In Australia, people think we say "G-day" and stuff, but it's not true. When we say stuff like that, we usually mean it as a joke about aussies, but nobody says it on a daily basis. And before you ask, no, we do not have kangaroos and koalas parading the streets. That was the Olympic Games

Oh and by the way, DavidY, did you go to the Games? I went to The Opening Ceremony, Gymnastics, Netball and the Closing Ceremony. It was so fun - it was in my home town

 

[davidY]

G-day mate. I went to volleyball, and the olympic players were good

My translations:
Good day: ni hao ma
Your mum is good: ni ma hao

translator's note: never confuse the hao and ma in your sentence

 

[TNT]

What language is that DavidY?

Dutch:
Good day: Goedendag
Your mum is good: Je moeder is goed.

Zeeuws:
Good day: Hoejndag

 

[darkdog]

let's teach you some portuguese, then

good day: bom dia
your mom is good: a tua mãe é boa (also means "your mom is hot")
what am i doing here?: o que é que estou aqui a fazer?
another beer, please: outra cerveja, se faz favor

having fun?

/jp

 

[daft27]

QUOTE (sasha @ Feb 9 2005, 04:45 AM) And before you ask, no, we do not have kangaroos and koalas parading the streets.

You just broke my heart.

 

[fizyboy]

i think ni hao ma is in chinese

there's no Good Day in our Malay langunage. Just good morning (selamat pagi), good evening (selamat petang), good night (selamat malam) etc

 

[Goro_Fugita]

Ok here I go in some spanish

Good dia: buen día
Your mom is hot: Tu mamá esta buena
How much for that: Cuanto por eso?

 

[onimike]

for tagalog
Good day: Magandang araw.

visayan dialect
Good day: Mayng adlaw.

guess what this means..
"kapa mo!"

 

[sasha]

Chinese:

That's not right: Sum Ting Wong!
Are you harbouring a fugitive? Hu Yu Hai Ding?
See me ASAP! Kum Hai Nao!
Stupid Man! Dum Gau!
Small Horse. Tai Ni Po Ni.
Did you go to the beach? Wai Yu So Tan?
I bumped into a coffee table. Ai Bang Mai Ni.
I think you need a facelift. Chin Tu Fat.
It's very dark in here. Wai So Dim?
I thought you were on a diet. Wai Yu Mun Ching?
This is a tow away zone. No Pah Kin.
Our meeting is scheduled for next week. Wai Yo Kum Nao?
Staying out of sight Lei Ying Lo.
He's cleaning his automobile. Wa Shing Ka.
Your body odour is offensive. Yu Stin Ki Pu.
Great Fu Kin Su Pah!

 

[davidY]

hahaha, chinese jokes

i have one: confucious says:
man walk in front of car and get tyred
man walk behind car and get exhausted

 

[sasha]

LOL!

 

[TNT]

QUOTE (davidY @ Feb 10 2005, 12:13 AM) hahaha, chinese jokes

i have one: confucious says:
man walk in front of car and get tyred
man walk behind car and get exhausted
We should make a good jokes thread.

In how many different languages can we say that i'm at school?

 

[sasha]

First language: I'm at school.

 

[TNT]

Second: Ik ben op school
Third: Ich bin auf Schule. (my german sucks, so its probably not auf)
Fourth: Je suis en l'ecole. (I hate french and will deny knowing the language if anyone asks, so this one is probably wrong as well)
I could do Spanish, but I dont want to steal the spotlight from the Mexicans.

 

[sasha]

Um... The French is okay. It's actually "Je vais à l'école", because suis is ownership over something, but vais is to go.

Thanx to Mum, Dim, Jennki and Myself

:

English: I go to school.
French: Je vais à l'école.
Italian: Vado alla scuola.
Spanish: Voy a la escuela.
German: Ich gehe zur Schule.
Portugese: Eu vou à escola.
Dutch: Ik ga naar school.
Japanese: 私は学校に行く。
Korean: 나는 학교에 간다.

There would be more, but the family is still learning

 

[TNT]

I thought J'ai. Was I have.

Je suis is I am.

You know people who know Dutch?

Also, I thought we were translating that we were at school, not that we were going to school.

 

[sasha]

Oh well. Then the whole previous entry was a waste...

</anger>

 

[TNT]

Yes, yes it was. Time you couldve spent on the sig of your...whatever gender it has.

</scoffs>

 

[sasha]

Na. I got rid of his post. Check the thread