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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 2777 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks espejismo :) You know you're a language nerd when you're preparing for the
Christmas Party for the kids at work and you're rehearsing a dance - to that bloody awful Gangnam Style song. I'm well aware it's not a Christmas song but it will undoubtedly make them laugh watching their teachers make idiots of themselves in front of a few hundred people. Anyway, you're watching your co-workers do their improvised actions to the song that you're supposed to be learning - and you ask them to repeat the moves multiple times not because they're ridiculous, but because you want to re-check what tones they're using for the words 1-10, and "left" and "right". And then later you do the dance yourself and repeat the instructions to the whole group in Mandarin, and hardly notice yourself doing that :) Edited by LanguageSponge on 12 December 2012 at 2:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 2778 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Wikitionary led me to some "similar counting games in other languages" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe Now I have to learn all sorts of them! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2779 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Danish "ælle bælle mig fortælle" - or at least it was like that 50 years ago while I still was in the relevant age group. NB: "mig" is an oblique form of the personal pronoun and "fortælle" ('tell') is an infinitive, so maybe the whole thing is concocted by a grammatically challenged adult. Edited by Iversen on 13 December 2012 at 5:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2780 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Iene miene mutte,
Tien pond grutten Tien pond kaas, Iene miene mutte is de baas! That's the Dutch version. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2781 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've never used the one about эники-беники though i've heard the beginning.
The playground part of my childhood was mostly in Belarus and we used this one: На златом крыльце сидели: Царь, царевич, Король, королевич, Сапожник, портной. Кто ты будешь такой? we sometimes included some modern characters like на златом крыльце сидели мишки гамми, том и джерри :D (no idea about мишки гамми, i missed something i guess) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2782 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I Norwegian it is similar, only it is "you", not "me" who "fortelle": Elle, melle, deg fortelle Skipet går ut i år Rygg i rand, to i spann Snipp, snapp, snute, du-er-ute! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2783 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
The Norwegian version goes like this: Elle melle deg fortelle Skipet går ut i år Rygg i rand to i spann Snipp snapp snute du er ute! Possibly concocted by the same grammatically challenged adult. Edit: Beaten by Ogrim! Edited by tractor on 12 December 2012 at 5:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2784 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
You now you are a language nerd when you run to the computer to be the first to give your mother tongue contribution to a discussion on children songs and nursery rhymes in different languages! 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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