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I've been trying to come up with something myself. I don't know how sensical or correct this is, but:

辛い殻を枯らしてから嘉良からの伽羅は空に駆られた。
Karai kara wo karashite kara Kara no Kara wa kara ni karareta.
After killing of spicy shells, Kara from Kara succumbed to the emptyness.

I came up with one in Chinese (a friend helped me finish it):
一只蜘蛛一直注意这只猪
yì zhī zhīzhū yìzhí zhùyì zhè zhī zhū
one - measure word - spider - always/continually - pay attention to - this - measure word - pig

"A spider always paid attention to this pig"

Tengado wrote:I came up with one in Chinese (a friend helped me finish it):
一只蜘蛛一直注意这只猪
yì zhī zhīzhū yìzhí zhùyì zhè zhī zhū
one - measure word - spider - always/continually - pay attention to - this - measure word - pig

"A spider always paid attention to this pig"

I assume you were discussing "Charlotte's Web".

Oooh, that never dawned on me. I made it up just based on the phonetics. I was asking my friend about what measure word should be used for small animals like spiders - turns out it's the same one as for medium sized animals like cats and chickens (there's a different one for larger animals like cattle). It sounds funny - yì zhī zhīzhū. Then there's the two words yìzhí zhùyì - always pays attention to - which sounds similar. A pig is yì zhī zhū, similar again, but the object of zhùyì must be definite, so hey presto, zhè zhī zhū, this pig. Hadn't realised the Charlotte's Web connection.

bricka wrote:Please contribute! By "weird" I mean things which look particularly strange, silly, or peculiar.

To start off with, "she will eat" in Manx is written "eeee ee".

It's pronounced the same in Scottish Gaelic, but is written differently, so this doesn't qualify as weird enough.

How is it spelled in Scottish Gaelic?
Also, Irish, Welsh and Cornish, if you know.
I'd love to see.

Soap wrote:Dialectal Swedish:

"I åa ä e ö å å öa ä e å" = "In the river there is an island, and on the island there is a river". Standard Swedish would insert a couple of consonants here and there. The words for island (?) and river (?) were present in Old English, and if they had survived to modern English, I think both of them would have merged as /i:/.

Very similar to my idiolect, but I have a few diphthongs there, and I usually pronounce the consonant of the copula:

Written with my made up orthography:
I åa er ei øy, og å øya er ei å.
[i: "o:A: E:r EI 2I o: o: 2IA: E:r EI o:]

Noriega wrote:Swedish syllable of the day: Ernstskts = ”of an Ernst-ian one”

Seriously, I can't stop laughing at that "translation". It sounds so very, very awesome.

"She will eat" is íosfaidh sí, in Irish, pronounced /iːsˠə ʃiː/. Probably the closest you could get to "eeee ee" is the imperative "eat her!", ith í, which is pronounced /ɪ iː/.

I'm not as familiar with Welsh, but I think it would be bydd hi'n bwyta, using a verbal noun, and the inflected version would probably be bwytith hi, so I suppose the Brythonic languages use a different root for "eat". Take the Welsh with a grain of salt, though, and I'd appreciate correction from someone with more experience.

I'm sure I have referenced to this particular morpheme before, but what the hell; here's a real phrase from a friend of mine, he really said it, and everyone around him understood perfectly.

preguntale la wea al weon de la wea weon.

ask-2ND.IMPERATIVE ARTICLE [wea] TO.THE [wea-PERSONALIZER] of ARTICLE [wea] [wea-VOCATIVE]

I love the 'we' morpheme

What on earth is that even supposed to mean? Something along the lines of "ask the dude about the thing, man"? Except I've missed at least one wea there I think...

An example that's sometimes quoted for the original dialect of Kassel, Germany: Get de Redde dä? --- Nä, ne mä. [ˈɡɛdɛ ˈrɛdə ˈdɛː || ˈnɛː nɛ ˈmɛː]. In a more standard German that would read Gehört der Rüde dir? --- Nein, nicht mir. Note that Rüde has become the word for "dog" in general, as opposed to Standard German Hund. In English the sentence is "Is that your dog? --- No, not mine."

A completely nonsensical, but grammatically correct Lakota dialogue I made up:

--Hiŋháŋ hé hihí... Híŋ!
--Hehá "Hiŋháŋ hé hihí" ehá he?
--Háŋ.
--"Híŋ" ée he?
--Háŋ, hiŋháŋ hí hihí.
--Hehehé! "Hiŋháŋ hí" ehé!
--Hiŋháŋ híŋ hihí.
--Oháŋ. Hohí.
--Hahó hahó!
--Háŋ.

--Owl horn is soft... Oops!
--Did you say: "Owl horn is soft"?
--Yes.
--Instead of "feathers"?
--Yes, owl teeth are soft.
--Oh no! You said "owl teeth"!
--Owl feathers are soft.
--OK. Take the pipe.
--Thank you!
--You're welcome.

There are lots more words with only 'h' and vowels in them, but the dialogue would hve been far too lengthy and disorganized, and I couldn't have made it grammatically correct without adding in words that don't have an 'h'. It would also have made far less sense semantically.

In Finnish there is this word: hääyöaie.
Does this qualify?

Whimemsz wrote:What on earth is that even supposed to mean? Something along the lines of "ask the dude about the thing, man"? Except I've missed at least one wea there I think...

Ask the shit to the guy of the shit, guy is the literal translation

he meant "ask the man inside the taxi for the directions we need"

But see we have such economy of meaning here that he just dropped all information, letting it to be interpreted from context, save for the verb in question. Funny thing is, if he had just uttered without the context-sensitive markers [saying, for instance, "ask"] it would have been a COMPLETELY different speech-act.

Baffona
The Italian word for an attractive woman with a moustache.
Gattara
Italian word for a lonely elderly woman who devotes herself to stray cats.

Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

Jacqui wrote:Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

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I don't get it.

Fanu wrote:

Jacqui wrote:Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

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I don't get it.

It's a wierd little thing about eating a prostitute's liver.

Pthug wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottentots

"From 1904 to 1907, the Namaqua, a Khoikhoi group living in present-day Namibia, along with the Herero took up arms against the Germans, who had colonized Namibia. 10,000 Nama, 50% of the total Nama population, perished."

Dumb shits.

Jacqui wrote:

Pthug wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottentots

"From 1904 to 1907, the Namaqua, a Khoikhoi group living in present-day Namibia, along with the Herero took up arms against the Germans, who had colonized Namibia. 10,000 Nama, 50% of the total Nama population, perished."

Dumb shits.

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Swedish:
I och med att en annan till och med efterlyste grönsaker och dammsugare, vart en annan dum i huvudet.

Translation:
Since I even wanted to find vegetables and hoovers, I became stupid.

Literal translation:
In and with that another to and with afterlit greenthings and dustsuckers, became another dumb in the head.

I thought it sounded funny when literally translated, at least~

Jacqui wrote:

Fanu wrote:

Jacqui wrote:Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

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I don't get it.

It's a wierd little thing about eating a prostitute's liver.

The OP wrote:things which look particularly strange, silly, or peculiar

Eating a prostitute's liver in Italian doesn't look strange at all. It just looks like any other Italian sentence. The point is that the phrase looks unusual when written out, or sounds unusual when spoken, like all the words having the same vowel or being entirely consonantal. Not that what it means is unusual.

Jacqui wrote:

Fanu wrote:

Jacqui wrote:Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

?

I don't get it.

It's a wierd little thing about eating a prostitute's liver.

Well, I do understand it, I'm a native speaker, but that italian sounds quite odd. oO Where do you came across with it?

Fanu wrote:

Jacqui wrote:

Fanu wrote:

Jacqui wrote:Dove posso seppellire il cadavere della prostituta?
Mangiare il fegato, al momento della cena.

?

I don't get it.

It's a wierd little thing about eating a prostitute's liver.

Well, I do understand it, I'm a native speaker, but that italian sounds quite odd. oO Where do you came across with it?

Lazio.

Skomakar'n wrote:In and with that another to and with

That right there just made sure I'll never try to learn Swedish.

Nortaneous wrote:

Skomakar'n wrote:In and with that another to and with

That right there just made sure I'll never try to learn Swedish.

That right there just confirmed my beliefs that Americans are willfully ignorant about the world around them.

Just to show to Nortaneous that these are in fact very common sets of words that we use several times just about every day:



MSN conversation from minutes ago.

I och för sig would be something like in and for oneself (sig has no exact translation; it's a reflexive third person version if me and thee; same as Spanish se in most contexts), and actually means something along the lines of that's true, and it's understood that one had to think about it first and then realised that was the case (... it's really hard to exactly translate it; care to give me a hand here, Richard?).

A possible sentence in my area of Sweden:

"Mula mig vrängd."
"Rub snow in my face so that I get turned inside out."

Swedish surely is a handy language.