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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: December 17, 2008 2:01 PM Post subject: how do they say it where you're from? |
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now that we're getting some more international flavor here, i'm curious; how do they say "congratulations" where you're from? sometimes, i feel like writing something other than "congratulations", and if i know someone's from australia, or england, or scotland, or wales, or zaire (to name a few places where we have members), i wonder what colloquialisms they use there for this kind of thing...
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nicfirth
Quit Date: July 17, 2008
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Posted: December 17, 2008 2:40 PM Post subject: Re: how do they say it where you're from? |
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kevin wrote: |
now that we're getting some more international flavor here, i'm curious; how do they say "congratulations" where you're from? sometimes, i feel like writing something other than "congratulations", and if i know someone's from australia, or england, or scotland, or wales, or zaire (to name a few places where we have members), i wonder what colloquialisms they use there for this kind of thing...
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Kevin we do share a common language (well very nearly ) so its pretty much the same in fact us Brits seem to have adopted "Way to go" from the US during my life time!
That said there may be regional dialects with unusual phrases and obviously Wales has its own language, but not all Welsh people can speak it. _________________
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marg
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Posted: December 17, 2008 7:44 PM Post subject: |
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Lol, a real ocker would be "good on ya mate" |
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: December 17, 2008 11:58 PM Post subject: |
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thanks, marg!
and, nic: i do web projects sometimes with a guy from manchester, and he's always saying things that make no sense to me (although a lot of things he says i "get" because of the context in which he says them, but if not for that, i'd never figure them out), despite our "common" language. _________________
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jimotter
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Posted: December 18, 2008 4:54 AM Post subject: |
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ナンバーワン
Phonetically or in the english reading languae you say "ichibahn" or translated so we understand, "Number 1"
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: December 18, 2008 11:14 AM Post subject: |
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domo arigoto, jim-san! _________________
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nicfirth
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Posted: December 18, 2008 12:06 PM Post subject: |
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kevin wrote: |
thanks, marg!
and, nic: i do web projects sometimes with a guy from manchester, and he's always saying things that make no sense to me (although a lot of things he says i "get" because of the context in which he says them, but if not for that, i'd never figure them out), despite our "common" language. |
There are some odd dialects in the North, _________________
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Barbara K.
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Posted: December 27, 2008 11:46 PM Post subject: |
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Here in the Southern part of US we might say,
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motorcyclewoman
Quit Date: March 10, 2008
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Posted: May 10, 2009 3:40 PM Post subject: |
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Hi Kev!
In Belgium we say : 'proficiat' or 'gefeliciteerd'
(would love to hear you pronounce it )
Greetzzzzz
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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: May 10, 2009 10:48 PM Post subject: |
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well, i'd pronounce it 'gefeliciteerd', of course. _________________
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