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    Minor European Languages

    I started a Welsh thread but it got spammed.

    Languages like Welsh, Gaelic and Basque are apparently growing in popularity, and I might start learning Welsh. You get a pint for going to learn it every Sunday.

    Slow - Araf
    Ambulance - Ambiwlans
    Bridgend - Pen-y-bont
    Cardiff - Caerdydd
    No smoking - Dim Ysmygy
    Football Club - Clwb Pel-droed

    Do you know a few words of minor language?
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    Well, there's one or two words of Dutch I know:

    Klootzak - Scrotum
    Godverdomme - God be damned
    Rot op - Piss off

    And it continues in that sort of vein. And it's all because my mum only speaks Dutch when she wants to swear in public.
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    • #3
      How do you define minor language?

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        Boddingtons - Troll

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Lars-E
          How do you define minor language?
          Anything other than English, French, Spanish, German and Italian, I would imagine.
          "Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.

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          • #6
            And Finnish. Let's not get them started!
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            • #7
              Norwegian, Danish, Swedish.

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              • #8
                I actually think it's a waste of time for governments to artificially prop up dying languages. I don't see the point.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Paul Hanson
                  Well, there's one or two words of Dutch I know:

                  Klootzak - Scrotum
                  Godverdomme - God be damned
                  kl**tzak is closer to ash*le

                  Your right in a literally way, but not how it is used.
                  The same goes for godverdomme =(god)damned, sh*t,..
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                  • #10
                    Yeah, I'm aware of that. But if I'd translated it like that, then people would be saying "Yes, but literally it means..."
                    "Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.

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                    • #11
                      Croeso i Gymru!

                      Now Stew is going to learn Welsh is he? Talk about a born again taff
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                      • #12
                        Sooooo...... any Basque speakers show up yet?
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Boddington's
                          And Finnish. Let's not get them started!
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                            Re: Minor European Languages

                            Originally posted by Boddington's
                            I started a Welsh thread but it got spammed.

                            Languages like Welsh, Gaelic and Basque are apparently growing in popularity, and I might start learning Welsh. You get a pint for going to learn it every Sunday.

                            Slow - Araf
                            Ambulance - Ambiwlans
                            Bridgend - Pen-y-bont
                            Cardiff - Caerdydd
                            No smoking - Dim Ysmygy
                            Football Club - Clwb Pel-droed

                            Do you know a few words of minor language?
                            You learn that by looking at signs, not by going to lessons. Try something more adventurous like "Twll dîn pob Sais".
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                            • #15
                              Baszom az anyadat, baszom az istenit, baszom a Krisztusmariat.

                              Must be something Hungarian. Hell knows what, but they repeat it all the time, when I hear Hungarians talk.

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