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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5102 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 9 of 11 18 November 2013 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
My students in Thailand would say "ฮะ?" [há] meaning "huh?" but "ha" 3rd tone is the
number 5 and they write 555+ on facebook meaning " hahaha"
Edited by languagenerd09 on 18 November 2013 at 1:39am
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 10 of 11 18 November 2013 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
We would spell it "hæ" but it is basically the same sound.
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| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5308 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian
| Message 11 of 11 16 January 2014 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
If a Norwegian gets a surprizing verbal message, he can say "å" (pronounced "oh" with a rising tone), implaying surprize, and can be translated as "really?"
Edited by Aquila123 on 16 January 2014 at 1:30pm
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