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Re: What's Santa going to bring you?


  • To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  • Subject: Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
  • From: "Andy Powell" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 11:11:19 -0000
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Ahem - Not in the French speaking part it's not!

Mon hovercraft est plein d'anguilles

Andy

--- In ukha_d@y..., Quinten Uijldert <quinten.uijldert@v...> wrote:
> Well at least she can add Dutch to it as well :D
>
> Maybe she would like to know the Belgian version as well?
>
> "Awel zulle, mijne vliegboot zit vol met alen"
>
> Q.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: Thursday 27 September 2001 11:06
> > To: ukha_d@y...
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
> >
> >
> >
> > I wish I'd known ... my previous employer was a translation
company!
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx...]
> > > Sent: 27 September 2001 11:05
> > > To: ukha_d@y...
> > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: What's Santa going to bring you?
> > >
> > >
> > > 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@e...>
> > > >Reply-To: ukha_d@y...
> > > >To: <ukha_d@y...>
> > > >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@y...
> > > >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@h...>
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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