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PostPosted: December 17, 2008 2:01 PM    Post subject: how do they say it where you're from? Reply with quote

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...

can you help me out here?
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PostPosted: December 17, 2008 2:40 PM    Post subject: Re: how do they say it where you're from? Reply with quote

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...

can you help me out here?


Kevin we do share a common language (well very nearly Laughing Laughing ) so its pretty much the same in fact us Brits seem to have adopted "Way to go" from the US during my life time! Very Happy

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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PostPosted: December 17, 2008 7:44 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lol, a real ocker would be "good on ya mate" Embarassed
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PostPosted: December 17, 2008 11:58 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks, marg! Smile

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. Wink
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PostPosted: December 18, 2008 4:54 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: December 18, 2008 11:14 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

domo arigoto, jim-san! Smile
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PostPosted: December 18, 2008 12:06 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

kevin wrote:
thanks, marg! Smile

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. Wink


There are some odd dialects in the North, Smile
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PostPosted: December 27, 2008 11:46 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy Here in the Southern part of US we might say,

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PostPosted: May 10, 2009 3:40 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Kev!

In Belgium we say : 'proficiat' or 'gefeliciteerd'
(would love to hear you pronounce it Razz )
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PostPosted: May 10, 2009 10:48 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, i'd pronounce it 'gefeliciteerd', of course. Wink
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