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14 Sep 2009, 9:47 am

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This morning, I learnt a new one in English about giving an inch 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.


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.


In Danish, we say about something very expensive, that "it costs the white out of the eyes". (Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene).
We also can say (apropos inches, fingers, arms etc.) "give somebody a finger, and he takes the whole arm".



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14 Sep 2009, 10:04 am

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Skræmt over hvad?


de va skræmmarn som skræmtn!

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


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


Jeg synes personen i bildet er veldig sexy<3



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08 Oct 2009, 3:19 pm

Sega Satān, Shiro! (Japanese.)
De fyts is net âld. (Not Japanese.)

Mia alia kelonio estas ornitorinko. (Also not Japanese.)



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09 Oct 2009, 5:52 am

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Sega Satān, Shiro! (Japanese.)
De fyts is net âld. (Not Japanese.)

Mia alia kelonio estas ornitorinko. (Also not Japanese.)


What languages are those not Japanese languages then?



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09 Oct 2009, 6:40 am

AnnePande wrote:
In Danish, we say about something very expensive, that "it costs the white out of the eyes". (Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene).
We also can say (apropos inches, fingers, arms etc.) "give somebody a finger, and he takes the whole arm".


In France, we can also say: "Ca coûte un rein." ("It costs a kidney.")
But then, it means that it's really very very very very (etc.) expensive.
And even more than that.



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10 Oct 2009, 12:10 am

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What languages are those not Japanese languages then?

"De fyts is net âld." is Frysk. (West Frisian) The bicycle is not old.

"Mia alia kelonio estas ornitorinko." estas Esperanto. My other turtle is a platypus.

Ĉu tio estas aviada bovino forrabate de eksterterulaj invadantoj?



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11 Oct 2009, 12:00 am

zena4 wrote:
AnnePande wrote:
In Danish, we say about something very expensive, that "it costs the white out of the eyes". (Det koster det hvide ud af øjnene).
We also can say (apropos inches, fingers, arms etc.) "give somebody a finger, and he takes the whole arm".


In France, we can also say: "Ca coûte un rein." ("It costs a kidney.")
But then, it means that it's really very very very very (etc.) expensive.
And even more than that.


in the States we say 'it costs an arm and a leg'


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23 Oct 2009, 4:44 am

Tudo que e bom dura pouco.

Tristeza nao tem fim, felicidade sim.

E o pau, e a pedra, e o fim do caminho.

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Everything good lasts little.

Sadness has no end, happiness does.

It's the stick, it's the stone, it's the end of the road.

Sorry for the downers but I am feeling a little blue :(



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03 Dec 2009, 4:36 pm

Những thành phố chìm trong cơn bom đạn.
Wo Shi Ke Yan. Wo xihuan Kan Shu.
Mira Eva, si tu no paras, yo voy a darte una pela con mi zapato!



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03 Dec 2009, 5:27 pm

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Ich bin Laden

"I am store"

bin laden?



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08 Dec 2009, 2:05 pm

About things costing an arm, leg, kidney or white of the eye, a fun french one is: " Ca coute la peau des fesses", which means literally "It costs the skin off the backside/ass" ( ie. it's expensive ). :lol:



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16 Dec 2009, 2:06 pm

僕の尼たたけ



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16 Dec 2009, 2:59 pm

Det begynner å bli seint, e tror e legger mæ snart.



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19 Dec 2009, 12:12 am

jeg har laget en kardemommelov, som er for byen vår
og i denne kardemommeloven står:
man skal ikke plage andre, man skal være grei og snill, og før øvrig kan man gjøre som man vil!


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19 Dec 2009, 7:16 am

Eller i dansk oversættelse:

Jeg har lavet en Kardemommelov, som gælder, hvor man går,
og i Kardemomme-lomme-loven står:
Man skal ikke plage andre eller sætte livet til,
og for øvrigt kan man gøre, hvad man vil. :)

Jeg hørte den plade meget som barn - har hørt, at da jeg i en alder af knap 2 år blev opereret for skelen, kunne jeg efter min opvågnen kun falde til ro, hvis min far gik rundt med mig og sang lille Kamomillas klaversang: Hør hvor fint, jeg spiller, små og store triller.... :D



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19 Dec 2009, 1:32 pm

:santa: ~Maligayang pasko at manigong bagong taon sa inyong lahat~ :rendeer:


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