Weird phrases from real languages

[WeepingElf]

Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.

You still have a lot to learn ...

[KathTheDragon]

/wazo/, or something like that.

[Birdlang]

Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.

You still have a lot to learn ...

There is also every word in Polynesian languages, where every syllable ends in a vowel.

[Birdlang]

/wazo/, or something like that.

Wazo is how you spell "bird" in Verdurian. That I know because I have the "Dictionary of Made Up Languages". And because I read on the Verdurian site that some of the words come from French and Russian.

[Birdlang]

Mele kelikimaka in Hawaiian, phonetically /mele kelitimaka/.

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For the record, many Hawaiian speakers do not even have [t] before front vowels. Also you're using /phoneme brackets/ when you should be using [phonetic brackets].

[Thry]

That I know because I have the "Dictionary of Made Up Languages". And because I read on the Verdurian site that some of the words come from French and Russian.

And because you like birds apparently .

[Birdlang]

That I know because I have the "Dictionary of Made Up Languages". And because I read on the Verdurian site that some of the words come from French and Russian.

And because you like birds apparently .

Yes. But I didn't know about Verdurian until I got that book or when I looked at WeepingElf's site.

[Qwynegold]

Hey, you guise! "Eeee ee ee" means "she will eat it" in Manx!!!1!

[kanejam]

Hey, you guise! "Eeee ee ee" means "she will eat it" in Manx!!!1!

Whoa that's cool!

Apparently ooonna is Japanese for huge woman.

[Qwynegold]

And "toooo o oooo" means "let's cover East Europe"!!1

[Birdlang]

m̓ałʔaaʔamaʔaała in Nuu-Cha-Nulth. According to Advanced Language Construction, 'it's always cold on the rocks'. The same vowel repeating over and over, two times lengthened.

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It's not that unusual to find words with only /a/ considering it is the most common vowel in the world.

[ObsequiousNewt]

Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.

You still have a lot to learn ...

There is also every word in Polynesian languages, where every syllable ends in a vowel.

Birdlang.... how shall I put this?

Up your standards.

No, no, how about this:

We've upped our standards, so up yours.

[KathTheDragon]

I'm slowly becoming convinced that Birdlang is a troll.

[Aili Meilani]

Slowly becoming convinced? Isn't it, like, immediately obvious after reading a couple of their posts?

[ObsequiousNewt]

Well, it's a toss-up between being a troll and suffering from an acute case of preteenitis.

[KathTheDragon]

Quite. He may even not be aware of his trollishness, which kinda disqualifies him from being a troll, does it not?

[Civil War Bugle]

I was wondering if he had Asperger's or something, similarly to how Eddy had all the effects of a troll but was able to point to having a mental syndrome.

[Birdlang]

Civil War Bugle is right. I have ADHD and autism. Not to mention kitchensinklangfanNo.1. So you may be right that I have the effects of a troll like Eddy, but I am not.

[Arzena]

I can't remember how to say it in Moroccan Arabic, but "She turns the couscous steamer just like her mom" ~~ "Chip off the old block" is one of my favoriter expressions from Morocco

[Imralu]

Swahili lililililia means "it cried for it", as long as both "it"s are class 5.

[Imralu]

Swahili:

Hivyo ndivyo ilivyo, sivyo?
_{hivyo ndi-vyo i-li-vyo | si-vyo
DEM.REF.8 EMPH.COP-8 9-REL.COP-REL.8 | NEG.COP-8
"that.way is.the.way which.it.is | it.is.not.so"}
"That's the way it is, isn't it?"

(Class 8 is frequently used for adverbial meanings and class 9 is a default inanimate class.)

[Imralu]

Anafanana sana na nanasi!
S/he looks a lot like a pineapple.