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RE: Re: What's Santa going to bring you?


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  • Subject: RE: Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
  • From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:05:13 +0100
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Right, I see I'm going to have to explain myself...

It's for SWMBO!! - she's trying to gather this phrase in as many different
languages as possible.. - It's sort of a "challenge" at her
office to see
who can come up with the most obscure ones.

So far, I know she has got it in:

Latin
French
German
Spanish
Esperanto
Mandarin chinese
Indonesian
.... and at least half a dozen others which I can't remember now...



Paul G.





>From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:06:39 +0100
>
> > Does that make sense (unlike your request ;) )?
>
>Quinten,
>
>Actually - Paul's request makes a lot of sense, and I'd been wondering
>the same thing myself.
>
>Mark Harrison
>Head of Systems, eKingfisher
>
>************************************************************************
>****
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Quinten Uijldert [mailto:quinten.uijldert@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 26 September 2001 23:03
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
>
>
>Unfortunately 'Hovercraft' is 'Hovercraft' in Dutch (yeah I
>know, we borrow a lot from you lot), but it would be
>something like:
>
>'Mijn hovercraft zit vol met aal'
>
>which you pronounce something like:
>
>'mine hovercraft sit vol (as in volume) met (as in met
>office) aah-l'
>
>Does that make sense (unlike your request ;) )?
>
>On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:49:45 +0100
>  "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Right then!
> >
> > Would either of you please care to tell me how to say:
> >
> > "My Hovercraft is full of eels" in Dutch?? (don't ask!)
> >
> > preferably with a phonetic pronunciation version as
> > well...
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Paul G.
>
>
>
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