How do you say it?! Languages and Colloquisms

Iawn = Good,  Diolch = thanks,  Yfory = tomorrow

Doing my best here but I didn't pay to much attention in my Welsh classes!

I guess your fine from what I can work out!

Can you translate word for word some of your sentences please Nicola? Before too long we could be having a conversation in Welsh!

Diolch! 

Some norwegian... Thats all I can contribute on this topic...

Kom igjen Liverpool!!! = Come on Liverpool!!!

Peter Crouch er så søt = Peter Crouch is so cute!!!

heh..

Some norwegian... Thats all I can contribute on this topic...

Kom igjen Liverpool!!! = Come on Liverpool!!!

Peter Crouch er så søt = Peter Crouch is so cute!!!

heh..

Thanks Watt!!! Love the Kom igjen Liverpool!! You missed the "tall" out of the Peter Crouch one though!
Any more?

Aw mae hwnna'n bywyd ardderchog I fyw
Ie - dydd gorau fy mywyd no doubt!! Diolch!


Fi'n iawn diolch, ond mae gen I arholiad yfory, felly 'dwi'n mynd I gysgu cyn bo hir.

Bywyd = life                    Bywyd = life
Ardderchog = excellent      Arholiad = exam
Gorau = best            Cysgu = Sleep                 Cyn bo hir = soon/before long

Hurra for 17. mai!!!  Its Norways Constitution Day today!
Hurra, hurra, hurra!!! 

Im dressed in my bunad now, going downtown to watch the parades and meet up with some family

Enjoy the day!! 

       




Guess that was kind of off topic........ so heres some:

Heia Norge! = Go Norway!

Jeg vil ha is! = I want icecream!  (got to eat icecream this day thats tradition hehe. Eat until you get sick!)

Alt for Norge = All for Norway/ Everything for Norway  (our Kings motto)
hmm....

Jeg vil ha is! = I want icecream!  (got to eat icecream this day thats tradition hehe. Eat until you get sick!)

Alt for Norge = All for Norway/ Everything for Norway  (our Kings motto)
hmm....

Is your bunad your national dress Watt?, and also im going to have to move to Norway as although I dont really like chocolate and other sweet things I do love ice cream and any nation that makes it compulsory is alright with me.
Happy Constitution Day.

I am also now learning Polish from another customer at work 

Most importantly, I need to learn Italian so anyone who can help please do?

Happy Constitution Day Watt! You live in a beautiful country which I hope to visit one day!

Have a mint choc chip Ice Cream for me!

Nos da - Good night! 

Is your bunad your national dress Watt?, and also im going to have to move to Norway as although I dont really like chocolate and other sweet things I do love ice cream and any nation that makes it compulsory is alright with me.
Happy Constitution Day.

Thanks all!
Yeh, the bunad is our national costume. I got the trønder one, cause Im from Trondheim. Each region/county got their own bunad. If I had a picture of me in mine Id show you, tho mine is not that fancy. Go down south and southwest in Norway and some of the bunads are just crazy beautiful. Lots of embroideries and stuff, really cool. Mine got none hehe, but its still nice I think, and Im proud to be a trønder 


Icecream IS compulsory when you celebrate 17.mai! Icecream and hotdogs! hehe 
Was the best day! Just having a break from examstress and reading, looking at the parades downtown and all the cute kids in their tiny tiny bunads meeting up with family and enjoying a beer in the sun with my boyfriend. Just lovely.

Can you teach us some Norwegian phrases with translations?

Hello, Yes and No.  Where is the pub?   Have a nice day!   Thank you!  (etc. - common phrases that are always useful!)

Ps. Is that Mourhinios dog in the picture? It gets around a bit! 

Ps. Is that Mourhinios dog in the picture? It gets around a bit! 

Hehehe    That dog..!
But I dont recognize those bunads.. Where did you find them? Look swedish I think.


Hello = Hallo, hei, heisann, hallais, goddag....
Bye = Hadet
Good bye = Hadet bra (bra = good. hehe)
Yes = Ja
No = Nei
Where is the pub? = Hvor er puben?
Have a nice day = Ha en god dag
Thanks = Takk
Beer = Øl
Cheers! = Skål!
I love you = Jeg elsker deg
Norwegian girls are the best! = Norske jenter er de beste! 

(bra = good. hehe)

No bra = Great 

No bra = Great 

hehe

hehe thanks...

No bra = Great 

I was expecting something to do with that word as the next post!


Glad you had a good day Watt!

3 cwsg !

Yeah! Takk for the translations Watt!
I don't think I could say "good bye" without smirking though...
Hope you had a great day filled with your fave ice cream and lots of sympathy for your boyf  !

I just tracked down a website for camping in Snowdonia. I was hunting for a particular campsite I stayed at in 1993/4 I think. The occasion was the 33rd Dragon Rally, a bikers event. It was bitterly cold in January and an experience I'll never forget. But to the point of the topic... I found this link which Nicola should scrutinize and give it the thumbs up / down!

http://www.croeso-betws.org.uk/iaith/phrases.htm

What's scrutinize?
Hehe that's quite funny!! How did you find that ?! L-o-l.
Some of the things, like "sut mae?" you don't really say, normally "sut wyt ti" or "sut dach chi" (which is on the site). and "prynhawn da" is good afternoon properly, hehe, "p'nawn da" is slang! I speak Wenglish mostly anyways.
"do", "yndw" and "yndi" are more gog things to say, North Wales like, so near Snowdonia yeh Hehe.
I found this site, you guys won't really get it, but it's Welsh signs all spelt or translated wrong, some are small mistakes, but some are just pathetic.. like someone's used a dictionary to translate each word.. which you can not do with Welsh!
Here it is if you wanna look: http://www.flickr.com/groups/scymraeg/pool/

was about to start a new topic but thought I better have a look if one existed already, apparently it did.

Anyway was at me dad's today for the Sunday Roast and dad was fumin over a "jigger" which is apparently an entry or alley way.

Couple of others than run through our family;
"tilly mint" - for young girl. (e.g. you runnin round the offy, tilly?"
"offy" - off licence (e.g. you runnin round the offy?"
"runnin round" - going to somehwere (e.g. I'm just runnin round to our Micks, be back in a bit)
"biddy" - for an old women (e.g. don't be sly lad, go and help that old biddy out)
"sly" - being a tightarse (e.g. go 'ed lend us a tenner, don't be sly)
"go ed" - go on (e.g. go 'ed Torres on your own lad)
"leg it" - run fast away from something (e.g. here's Charlie, leg it)
"peg it" - same as leg it
"bagsy" - ownership of something. (e.g. bagsy the seat furthest away from the door)
"alehouse" - pub (e.g. you goin the alehouse tonight)

My favourite Irish term is

"S'craic"

Short for "Whats the craic" also translated to "whats up"

Scottish one for you:

"Haw you" - Haw you

Scottish one for you:

"Haw you" - Haw you

Another Scottish saying for you.

'How much?!'

 

Just wanted to bring up the use of the saying 'seen my arse'.

Does anyone know where it came from and what the hell it means?

I've moved to Portsmouth from near Chester where the saying is used all the time, upon moving down here no one has ever heard of this saying! So maybe its something we just say in the Chester area?

So I was just wondering if anyone else uses 'seen my arse' in thier everyday dialogue and also where they live

Cheers

I'm from near Chester, and I go to the Uni there but I can't say I've ever heard the phrase.

Care to explain?