tagged w/ Foreign Languages
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The Swearsaurus
I found this after searching lots of websites for a translation of a text message someone sent me that turned out to be gibberish anyway. I'm posting this so that all of that time I spent searching doesn't go to waste. At the very least, clicking on the link above will give someone the potential to be only a bookmark away when the online translators pretend they don't know what you're trying to say even when you don't know that what you're saying is offensive.
This site has 184 languages with words and phrases organized by language but its not search-able or even alphabetized within each language category. But it IS a start. The Interweb NEEDS more places like this. After all, not everyone on here are children or middle school kids trying to cheat on their Spanish homework but also need protection from learning something they could actually use if they ever went to a Spanish-speaking country. Some of us ARE old enough... Nay, mature... Nay, Evolved enough! (You know who you are and thank you for taking a break from your porn to be here reading this).
In fact, you could say that some of us are evolving towards a transcendence of language altogether, along with all its barriers and limitations or more likely, we just want to know offensive words & phrases in other languages, both because they started it and I have no idea what they said AND because they won't always know English AND their native tongue, so if I want to have the desired effect, I'll need to learn this. But I prefer the more positive way of looking at it, that we have transcended the limitations of the English language. "Why do Google and Yahoo want to stop human evolution?" you might ask (no really, go ask! I'll wait...)
After all, school may have taught me how to ask for la bibliotheca - (as if anyone would logically ask for directions to the library in a foreign country when they obviously cannot understand the language enough to spit out a more realistic sentence. Thanks again, public schools for all your help in teaching us appropriate, valuable life skills and lessons!) - but I am still searching for a way to adequately express myself when I order Chinese and the delivery guy cannot understand that he forgot my egg rolls again, no matter how much slower and louder I say it.
And if someone knows of a site that you can actually search/translate an offensive word and/or phrase(s) or better yet a translator that has the entire language and doesn't omit these things, please post a link in the comments below and I would be eternally grateful.
- Lue
(By the way, for those that might be offended by anything in this post, please take a second to re-read it but this time play a little game called 'notice the sarcasm.' And afterward, if that's still the case, then I look forward to your angry comments and you can find my response by clicking on the link, followed by any language of your choosing and whichever phrase you randomly happen upon first can be taken as my personalized response to your undoubtedly insightful and positive comment. Zing!)
I'm just trying to cover my bases with that. Be gentle, this is my first post.The Swearsaurus
I found this after searching lots of websites for a... more
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You can learn at your own rythm.
Listening to a native speaker is the best means to learn quickly how to pronounce perfectly.
Define your needs and the lessons will adapt to them.
You can learn at your own rythm.
Listening to a native speaker is the best means to... more
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Learning to speak a foreign language is great.
French is better assimilated if you learn on a face to face basis.
Learn how to pronounce the language.
Define your needs, the teacher will adapt her teaching.
A lively course, based on communication and oral practice.Learning to speak a foreign language is great.
French is better assimilated if you... more
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So apparently this is a real language, but it's just damn funny to me! Maybe I'm just very naive, but it seems like phonetically spelling out a strong accent. Ha!So apparently this is a real language, but it's just damn funny to me! Maybe... more
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Now I can finely email my friends goofy Pig Latin messages. I'm sure they'll be ecstatic, not!Now I can finely email my friends goofy Pig Latin messages. I'm sure... more
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As if you didn't have enough reasons already...
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