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| Mikluho-Maklai Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6596 days ago 46 posts - 47 votes Speaks: Ukrainian, Russian*, English, Italian Studies: Japanese, French, Spanish, German | Message 9 of 52 04 June 2007 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
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Russian and Ukrainian: так-сяк [tahk-syak]
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| alexptrans Pentaglot Senior Member Israel Joined 6765 days ago 208 posts - 236 votes  Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew, Russian*, French, Arabic (Written) Studies: Icelandic | Message 10 of 52 05 June 2007 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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Hebrew: ככה-ככה (kakha kakha)
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| zemleroi Newbie Canada Joined 6332 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 11 of 52 26 July 2007 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
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I would translate it into Russian as "так себе". "Так-сяк", on the other hand, means "in different ways" (I cannot come up with a better translation off-hand).
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| winters Trilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7044 days ago 199 posts - 218 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, Russian*, English, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek Studies: Greek, French, Hungarian | Message 12 of 52 27 July 2007 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
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Croatian/Serbian: tako-tako
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| Timur Newbie Turkey Joined 6577 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes | Message 13 of 52 02 August 2007 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
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In Türkish, 'Şöyle Böyle' (it reads; shöile böile) or 'Az-Çok' (az-chok).
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| arsene Hexaglot Newbie Netherlands liviuandrei.com Joined 6237 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, Romanian*, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian | Message 14 of 52 28 October 2007 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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Romanian:
asi-asa (pron. ashi-asha) lit. so-so :) Edited by arsene on 28 October 2007 at 6:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strossel Triglot Groupie Joined 6483 days ago 47 posts - 48 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, French Studies: Icelandic, Hungarian | Message 15 of 52 28 October 2007 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
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Swedish - I would say the equivalent is sådär ('so-dair')
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 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 16 of 52 29 October 2007 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
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Dansk: nærmeste parallel er "la-la", men jeg ville personligt snarere sige "sådan nogenlunde"
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