Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:14 am
You still have a lot to learn ...Birdlang wrote:Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.
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Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:29 am
/wazo/, or something like that.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:54 pm
There is also every word in Polynesian languages, where every syllable ends in a vowel.WeepingElf wrote:You still have a lot to learn ...Birdlang wrote:Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 5:56 pm
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.KathAveara wrote:/wazo/, or something like that.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:37 am
Mele kelikimaka in Hawaiian, phonetically /mele kelitimaka/.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:05 pm
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].
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 6:17 am
And because you like birds apparentlyBirdlang wrote: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.
.Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 6:49 pm
Yes. But I didn't know about Verdurian until I got that book or when I looked at WeepingElf's site.Thry wrote:And because you like birds apparentlyBirdlang wrote: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.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 8:11 am
Hey, you guise! "Eeee ee ee" means "she will eat it" in Manx!!!1!
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:58 am
Whoa that's cool!Qwynegold wrote:Hey, you guise! "Eeee ee ee" means "she will eat it" in Manx!!!1!
Apparently ooonna is Japanese for huge woman.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 4:55 am
And "toooo o oooo" means "let's cover East Europe"!!1
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 1:37 pm
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.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 10:48 pm
It's not that unusual to find words with only /a/ considering it is the most common vowel in the world.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 10:43 am
Birdlang.... how shall I put this?Birdlang wrote:There is also every word in Polynesian languages, where every syllable ends in a vowel.WeepingElf wrote:You still have a lot to learn ...Birdlang wrote:Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels.
Up your standards.
No, no, how about this:
We've upped our standards, so up yours.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:20 pm
I'm slowly becoming convinced that Birdlang is a troll.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:57 pm
Slowly becoming convinced? Isn't it, like, immediately obvious after reading a couple of their posts?
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 2:12 pm
Well, it's a toss-up between being a troll and suffering from an acute case of preteenitis.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:45 pm
Quite. He may even not be aware of his trollishness, which kinda disqualifies him from being a troll, does it not?
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 5:44 pm
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.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:38 am
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.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:26 pm
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
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2017 11:29 am
Swahili lililililia means "it cried for it", as long as both "it"s are class 5.
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:22 pm
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.)
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.)
Re: Weird phrases from real languages
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 2:12 pm
Anafanana sana na nanasi!
S/he looks a lot like a pineapple.
S/he looks a lot like a pineapple.