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zelda_pinwheel · 01-16-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Gaurnim

Ah ... The Todd !
What a role model for all of us !

Hum ... wait, I think I wasn't supposed to write this out loud.

(misdirect them !)

Hehe, Scrubs is mega-LOLZ !!

Sweetpea · 01-16-2009, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

my dutch is nearly as good as my german (which, i admit, is not very good, so you can extrapolate the level of my dutch from there

), because it's quite close to german and a bit to english. right now the only things i remember from when i was visiting the netherlands are : "brod kaas" (or is it spelled "brot kaas" ???) which is what i ate every time we stopped for lunch in a pub, and "kunst" which is what i was travelling around seeing. mainly because i was travelled half the trip with a friend who had cousins there who took us around on a driving tour one day (and in one day, we visited the entire country !! the netherlands are quite small) and since he knew i was studying art, every time he saw a statue in the road or a museum or anything like that he would shout out "Kunst !" and point at it.

I'll assume you mean "een broodje kaas" (as in a bun with cheese)

And you can't visit the entire country in one day. Unless you never get out of the car and only circumnavigated the borders...

You can have a lot of fun with languages that are close to each other. I live near a town where a lot of Germans come for shopping, especially if there's an event going on. And during those events a lot of German shop owners come too. There's often a market then. One thing they hear a lot is:

Ich sollen Sie bellen.

wich means: I will bark [at] you.

Bellen in Dutch = Anrufen in German = Making a phone call in English
Bellen in German = Blaffen in Dutch = Barking in English (as a dog...)

zelda_pinwheel · 01-16-2009, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I'll assume you mean "een broodje kaas" (as in a bun with cheese)

oops, yes. sorry, i don't know how to spell.

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And you can't visit the entire country in one day. Unless you never get out of the car and only circumnavigated the borders...

well, we did drive a lot. but we also got out of the car several times to walk around a bit. we visited Den Haag, some windmills (of course), and a couple of other places. i don't remember everything now, this was... (calculating mentally...) about 15 or 16 years ago.

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You can have a lot of fun with languages that are close to each other. I live near a town where a lot of Germans come for shopping, especially if there's an event going on. And during those events a lot of German shop owners come too. There's often a market then. One thing they hear a lot is:

Ich sollen Sie bellen.

wich means: I will bark [at] you.

Bellen in Dutch = Anrufen in German = Making a phone call in English
Bellen in German = Blaffen in Dutch = Barking in English (as a dog...)

hee ! adding that to my list of funny expressions.

ravenne · 01-16-2009, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I'll assume you mean "een broodje kaas" (as in a bun with cheese)

And you can't visit the entire country in one day. Unless you never get out of the car and only circumnavigated the borders...

You can have a lot of fun with languages that are close to each other. I live near a town where a lot of Germans come for shopping, especially if there's an event going on. And during those events a lot of German shop owners come too. There's often a market then. One thing they hear a lot is:

Ich sollen Sie bellen.

wich means: I will bark [at] you.

Bellen in Dutch = Anrufen in German = Making a phone call in English
Bellen in German = Blaffen in Dutch = Barking in English (as a dog...)

That´s cool! So Dutch dogs are able to make phone calls!

zelda_pinwheel · 01-16-2009, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

That´s cool! So Dutch dogs are able to make phone calls!

pshrynk · 01-16-2009, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by acidzebra

Well that is nice but there are more important things to communicate - like, say "Oh my god! There is an axe in my head!" in some 40 languages.

Or this one with 112 translations. Terribly important stuff.

That is one of the top ten important websites EVER!

Gaurnim · 01-16-2009, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

I'm really liking the new episodes on ABC. But I don't want JD and Eliot together, I want her to be with Scott Foley's character (the Sea world guy).

Yeah, the story between JD and Eliot is starting to get old.
I don't know what it's like in seasons 5 and 6, though.

RWood · 01-20-2009, 07:29 PM

The gentleman sits down at a table in a fancy French restaurant with a lovely young thing and proceeds to impress her by ordering from the left menu (the right being printed in English in many French restaurants in the US.) The waiter shakes his head and responds in English, "Sir, that is the name of the head chef."

(Maybe you had to be at the next table to enjoy it.)

Sweetpea · 01-21-2009, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

That´s cool! So Dutch dogs are able to make phone calls!

Am I glad I only have cats (they only know how to type).

zelda_pinwheel · 01-21-2009, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Am I glad I only have cats (they only know how to type).

Sweetpea · 01-22-2009, 03:27 AM

Can you imagine the phone bill if those cats were able to make phone calls! All those cat calls to expensive numbers...

zelda_pinwheel · 01-22-2009, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Can you imagine the phone bill if those cats were able to make phone calls! All those cat calls to expensive numbers...

it's a good thing i have free VOIP telephone service from my internet provider...

Sweetpea · 01-22-2009, 10:08 AM

Yes, but 0900 (pay numbers) are still expensive... And don't even mention those long-distance calls! (except that Australia is cheaper per minute than Hungary and the US has the same price as France...)

zelda_pinwheel · 01-22-2009, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Yes, but 0900 (pay numbers) are still expensive... And don't even mention those long-distance calls! (except that Australia is cheaper per minute than Hungary and the US has the same price as France...)

the 0900 numbers (well, here they are 08XX numbers, but i see what you mean) are expensive, true, but the long-distance calls are free as well, thank goodness. the real trouble is making calls to cell phones. those cost a fortune. and those cats, you know, they love to have their cell phones...

01-20-2009, 07:29 PM	#68
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	The gentleman sits down at a table in a fancy French restaurant with a lovely young thing and proceeds to impress her by ordering from the left menu (the right being printed in English in many French restaurants in the US.) The waiter shakes his head and responds in English, "Sir, that is the name of the head chef." (Maybe you had to be at the next table to enjoy it.)

01-22-2009, 03:27 AM	#71
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	Can you imagine the phone bill if those cats were able to make phone calls! All those cat calls to expensive numbers...

01-22-2009, 10:08 AM	#73
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	Yes, but 0900 (pay numbers) are still expensive... And don't even mention those long-distance calls! (except that Australia is cheaper per minute than Hungary and the US has the same price as France...)

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