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| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4893 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 1 of 4 13 March 2012 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I've watched this a few times and still cry with laughter.
I'm not British, but I guess this woman is a comedienne with her own show, and this sketch is hilarious. She says to her boss that she can translate for the yearly meeting. She then 'translates' into all seven languages. Swedish is my favorite. If anyone knows of English jibberish examples, I'm very curious to hear them. (This is all in good fun! - no need to get offended) The Offensive Translator 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 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 2 of 4 13 March 2012 at 5:50am | IP Logged | ||
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People can decide for themselves whether they feel offended by this or not.
I knew before clicking the link what it would be. Been discussed here too. It's very pleasant to realize I've come a long way from 2007, when I enjoyed this. By now, none of the European languages there sounds like this to me anymore. (Chinese still does though tbh. Despite occasionally watching football in it when there's no video in a language I speak/study). edit: I find it offensive that this is called multilingualism... Edited by Serpent on 13 March 2012 at 6:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| manish Triglot Groupie Romania Joined 5537 days ago 88 posts - 136 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 13 March 2012 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sure it's been posted before, but here goes anyway: Do You Speak English? Edited by manish on 13 March 2012 at 2:52pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4893 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 4 of 4 13 March 2012 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Haha yeah, but that's the comedic value of it. To me it pokes fun at the sad truth that most native English speakers don't know even one language. She looks like the fool. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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