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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 25 of 27 13 December 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged |
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I'm one of the "and what do you want me to say?" people. I hate the situation. Really.
Last time it happend, it was my boyfriend who asked me before his whole family. So a potentially embarassing situation. I got out of it somehow with "what do you want me to say", which I spread over several sentences, I think I included the "I hate this question" part somehow. I like Jeffers' version. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5058 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 26 of 27 14 December 2014 at 12:01am | IP Logged |
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If you are of the crowd who don't mind the question or don't want to respond dismissively, how about going with
the appropriate translation of "My hovercraft is full of eels" ? 'My hovercraft is full of eels' in most languages 9 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 27 of 27 14 December 2014 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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I think robarb's version is safer than the one of Jeffers. Somebody in the room might understand French.
Personally I don't get so many requests to say something in weird languages that I need to have preestablished defense mechanisms. My linguistic interests have been noted at my job and in my travel club, but it seems that people just expect me to have weird hobbies. And those in my travel club will be confirmed in this idea when they read the latest issue of our Club Magazine, where I have a modest contribution in which I present some of the features of the Irish language in simple terms (not on the internet yet). 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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