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Even for a german that's hardly understandable
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Hah! Try Welsh place names some day!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
It's pronounced just like it's spelt, I'm told. That's quite a relief...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Surely that should be "Te tetted e tettetett tettet, te tettetett tettek tettese e Chrissie Waddel y Ryan Giggs"
This space for rent
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Chrissie Waddel és birkakurvat Ryan Giggs
ftfy
[Dare you check?]
veni bibi saltavi
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Google translate doesn't know it!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Google doesn't know everything, birka is sheep and I'll leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
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Sheeps give 'un loads of exercise...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Loads of exercise, with wellies!
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This thread is starting to smell like the Soapbox.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Scorchio![^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Gyere, Gyuri, a gyufagyárba, gyertyát gyújtsunk!
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Gesundheit!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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egészségedre!
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Typical. All other languages have words for "Cheers" that people can actually pronounce when they're sloshed. Leave it to the Hungarians to be different...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Hi Nagy,
Greets from a country where "mai mai mai mai mai," can mean "new wood doesn't burn, does it ?" Or, "pom ma" can mean "I came/am coming/will come," or "I'm a dog."
These choice words from Hungarian are wonderful, could you please record yourself speaking them slowly, and post links to the audio files here
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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You'll get a fair idea here[^]; when I try I think I put in too many te's
veni bibi saltavi
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Shouldn't that be in Sander's Song of the Week thread. You can dance to it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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I really expected an update to some language or another (C#, Java, C++, what have you)
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Really Broken Languages - Top of the List is the Frog-Tongue, French.
You probably know they don't count above sixty? After that they start with stuff like sixty-ten.
No wonder they have to 'protect' the language: it's already on it's deathbed in the modern world.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: After that they start with stuff like sixty-ten.
English 'breaks' after just 12 with three-ten, four-ten etc. What's your point?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Nope. You are in error. It's not broken.
The eleven and twelve are throwbacks to a long time tradition. That is related to the unit 'dozen' in that twelve was (and still is) a very convenient unit*. It's also common in other languages, fore example German (elf, zwölf, and then dreizehn, etc.).
Besides, there's no real analogy in your reply. We're not talking about the numbers between sixty and seventy - we're talking about the fact that they don't even have seventy (and beyond).
* Entire Societies believe this to be rather significant - click this link
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: they don't even have seventy (and beyond).
Yes they do! You've completely missed the point of my analogy. The naming convention by which 70 is 60+10 in French is exactly the same as the English 3+10 for 13 or the German 9+10 for 19. If you say there is no such thing as a French 70 on that basis then there is no such thing as an English 13 or a German 19 either.
And actually no language needs any number beyond 9 anyway, assuming it uses a decimal base and has a word for zero. It may be a tad long winded to do without words for the tens from 20 to 90, 100, 1000 and so on but it doesn't mean the language is in any way inferior or broken. That's just a ridiculous assertion.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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