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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 2601 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 6:43am | IP Logged | |||||
Yea when I was in Bulgaria, they had the same thing! Usually Macedonian, BCMS (oddly with BC and MS separately), Albanian, Romanian, and sometimes Greek, Slovenian, and/or Turkish 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2602 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 7:08am | IP Logged | |||||
When I shop at the local discount store, I sometimes get a bit of a kick looking at the everyday merchandise under unfamiliar brands (They're unfamiliar since they come from virtually unknown exporters to us on this side of the pond (e.g. Turkey, Philippines, Malaysia, Slovenia)). Of course the description and contents/ingredients' list comes in a languages other than English, French or Spanish (the usual languages for us North Americans) and I sometimes just go through the aisles and randomly look at the products to see if I can make sense of the languages used (I've been able to recognize Arabic, BCMS/SC, Filipino (or was it Tagalog?), German, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian (or was it Malay?), Polish, Slovenian and Turkish) This talk of different languages on hair care products reminds me of this gag from Scandinavia and the World. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2603 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The small printing on things like shower-gel would probably defeat me (especially without
glasses), but on a lot of the cat foods we buy, there are often nice, easy-to-read alternative descriptions in a surprising choice of languages. I was puzzled as to why the word "kylling" seemed familiar when I encountered it in my TYS Danish, until I remembered: ah yes: cat food! Another fun thing there is that the famous Danish TV series "Forbrydelsen" was known as "The Killing" in the UK (and of course remade under that title in the USA), and I wonder if Danes when first reading that translated title would think of it as "The Chicken"! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 2604 of 3737 10 September 2012 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
No, - if anything we would think of the offspring of a cat which is called "en killing". And speaking about "kyllinger": the Swedish word "kyckling" is more suggestive of the origin of the word for the formerly feathered thing on my dinner plate: it is simply a diminutive form of the old Germanic word *keuka in the derived form *kūka - which happens to be the same word as English "cock" (lo and behold - I expected this word to be starred out by the forum software - if so, I would have to substitute a Cyrillic 'o' for the Roman one, but methinks the software is growing a bit lax) And I probably wouldn't have bothered to write that explanation anywhere else but here at HTLAL. Edited by Iversen on 10 September 2012 at 7:01pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2605 of 3737 10 September 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
In Norwegian en killing (or, just as often, et kje) is a kid goat. A kitten is called en kattunge. What do you call the young goat in Danish? I think it's et kid in old-fashioned Norwegian Riksmål, so I would guess it is the same in Danish.
And I'd probably never ask a question about what kid goats are called in Danish anywhere else... 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 2606 of 3737 10 September 2012 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 2607 of 3737 11 September 2012 at 10:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you almost miss your flight at Joburg because you're actually hearing a "click"
language in conversation for the first time in your life and you want to hear more. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2608 of 3737 11 September 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you consider picking up a new language because your university offers free 3-
credit language classes... 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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