[SgtL] useful foreign phrases...and general lang. stuff

waar is my geld?

where is my money?

check in your wallet

it's so the /in/ thing to keep you money in your wallet. It's a fasion trend started by pickpockets so that everyone keeps their money in an easily accessibla and self contained packet. Fight the power

seker

sh*t?

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y did this thread die? it was one of the mre reality relevant ones. i blame ook

the problem started with you writing 'useful' into the headline.

useful:
Entschuldigen sie! ich suche jemanden der mit mir eine Partie 'Klonk' spielen würde, kennen sie jemanden an den ich mich wenden kann?

i got like every second word

well some of them were useful...blame ook

why do you always blame me for everything?
take responsibility for your actions.

jy moet vir jouself 'n lekker bekskoot gee,of ek sal

you should against yourself a good/pleasant [unknown word] give, or I [will?]

e-dictionaries don;t have half the words u use...sux

goes "G" sound like baCH or James?

u should give against/to yourself a good ?, or i shall?

i will pm you about it,and the g sound is like bach

so gelukkig would be physically impossible

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thats not Hebrew, its Aramatian. and theres a small space between the words: ליליא ויייקטל.
Aramatian is written in Hebrew letters, but i have no idea what it means. and now for a short hebrew lecture:
the little dots and lines near the letters are the Nikud- they tell you how to read the word. for example, a line under a letter, lets say, ל, which is L, tells you to pronounce it La. the Nikud comes instead of the vowels in english, but some letters in hebrew are vowels, as well as consonants. as you grow and start knowing all the words, you stop using the nikud, because you already remember to use the words (for example, in a book for small children you can find nikud, but in newspapers you wont). when this happens, the letters that use as vowels replace the nikud in some words that may be confusing. that is called full writing. for example, the word סבה can sound both as Saba, meaning "her grandfather", or as Siba, meaning "cause". therefore we use a dot ot a line under the ס, making it sound si or sa, respectivly. we when dont use nikud, we write either סבה, and then we know its "her grandfather", or סיבה, and then we know its "cause".

oh, right, aramiac, got a little confused. amharic is an african language, not related to hebrew as far as i know.
alef, ayin and yod are 3 of the 5 letters that are both vowels and conostants (the other two are he and vav). ayin alef have a similar sound, but ayin is much more guttural. however, except for the jews from Yemen and other arabian countries, nobody pronounces it like that, and mostly nowadays it just sounds like alef (a). for example- in the word bad, ra (רע). yod as a vowel form sounds ee\i, like in song, shir (שיר), and like y as a conostant, like in boy, yeled (ילד).

so BD, now we can discuss the irksome foibles of hebrew

what is the pronounciation of the letters?

(so you need to just copy paste...and I added my interpretation)

A -- aleph א
B -- bet ב
V -- vet ב
G -- gimmel ג
D -- daled ד
H -- hay ה
I -- vav ו
W -- vav ו
V -- vav ו
Z -- zayin ז
? -- chet ח
T -- tet ט
Y -- yud י
K -- kaf כ
CH -- chaf כ
L -- lamed ל
M -- mem מ
N -- nun נ
S -- Samech ס
A -- ayin ע
P -- pay פ
F -- fay פ
TS -- tzadee צ
K -- kuf ק
R -- resh ר
SH -- shin ש
S -- sin ש
TH -- taf ת

Saatanallinen ylösnousemus ja pedon kosketus, julma käsi ja luja tahto.
Helvetissä on syntisen taivas.

Try to translate that...

@sarge: you got most of them right. ב is still called bet when it sounds v, and the same with פ. ת sounds somehwhere between T and TH, and you probably meant O and not I on the first use of vav. ח sounds like the second use of כ, ch like in bach. the sounds ch like in chalk and j actually dont appear in hebrew, but when we have to use them, like in names like chuck and jerry or in foreighn words that were adopted to hebrew after its ressurection like giraffe, we use 'צ or 'ג for (צ and ג with an apostrophe) ch and j respectively. in rare occasions we use 'ז (ז with an apostrophe), like when writing the french pronounciation of the name george.

by J i mean Y only in euro that's the letter for it...'cept in finnish and icelandic where i believe y is an I sound