Random sentences in foreign languages

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(My account is currently inactive and I would like my account reactivated, please.)

Tha an clas eadar-lìn agam seachad a-nìse, agus feumaidh mi a’ sùil air ais na rudan a tha mi air ionnsachadh gus an ath chlas.

(My online class is over for now, and I need to review I learned before the next class.)

Müptela oldum aşka seninle,
Kayboldum gözlerinde,
Uçurumsun sen bu bedende. (Turkish; from the song "Dinle".)

Translation:
I became addicted to love with you,
I lost in your eyes,
You are cliff in this body.

And now to the funny...
On YouTube one has put Danish subtexts to "Dinle", ie. not a real translation, but what he thought the Turkish words sounded like in Danish:

Nøgtern er, at du vasker silden,
Kaj Voldum gør sig ilde
Og tjener tusind på benene.

Translation:
Level-headed is that you wash the herring,
Kaj Voldum makes himself bad
And earns thousand on the legs. (Or bones, it could also be... maybe the herring's bones?? )

Here's the video BTW. I think the song is good in itself too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROpqwT7Xyk

Søta bror.

Ska vi slåss?!

Stanislas?

This morning, I learnt a new one in English about giving an ich and taking a mile.
We have the same in French but with giving a finger and taking an arm.

We also have one that I like, it's a kind of slang: "ça coûte un oeil".
It means it's very very expensive. It's not gross but it's familiar.

Ka du tru?

Ha ha, vart I skræmt no?

hann vart kjæmpe - kjæmpe skræmt!

Skræmt over hvad?

de va skræmmarn som skræmtn!

<--- the "skremmer" ready to pounce up and scare you :]

Ikke helt det samme uten;

English has a similar idiomatic expression for very expensive - "it costs and arm and a leg". Many of these idiomatic expressions have similar but not identical versions in various languages, and for fun I will literally translate a foreign version and drop it into a conversation in another language (for example, by translating your French expression into "кошта око" or "it costs an eye"). Always draws looks of surprise - cheap entertainment for the autistic mind.

Weet je, mijn eigen taaltje is eén van de mooiste die ik ken.... wat natuurlijk een erg subjectieve opmerking is maar ik hou intens van haar en zal daar nimmer mee stoppen.

Dus.

Kongen var på besøk I Arendal for en del måneder siden, danskene og svenskene var også med, det var en stor feiring

Ved ikke om jeg synes han er så skræmmende... vist mest bare grim... men på den anden side: Alt uventet, der springer op, er skræmmende - i hvert fald å æ spektrum... ("på spektret" på vestjysk).