Shamil Salakhetdinov
shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
Mon Aug 24 12:38:52 CDT 2009
Hi All, I have found (I’m joking) that Russian is the most laconic language in expressing emotions and emotional states – I mean Russian usually (always?) needs the least amount of letters to express emotions in written text/verbally – here is one example - I have got translations from http://translate.google.com – I can’t guarantee they are all correct. Also I’m not sure that non-Ascii letters will go well through wires – the main purpose of this message is to test that - could be useful to know how it will work if some code samples here will have national alphabets used): Russian: Шучу English: I'm joking Arabic: أنا يمزح Bulgarian: Аз съм шегува Hungarian: I'm vicc Dutch: Ik ben een grapje Greek: Ότι αστειεύομαι Hebrew: אני צוחק Indonesian: Aku bercanda Spanish: Estoy bromeando Italian: Sto scherzando Chinese(Traditional): 我在開玩笑 German: Ich scherze Polish: Ja żartuję Portugal: Estou brincando Romanian: Eu glumesc Serbs: Шалим се Slovak: Ja si žarty Slovenes: Šalim Тагальский: Ako biro Turkish: Ben şaka yapıyorum yaşıyorum Ukrainian: Жартую French: Je plaisante Hindi: मैं मजाक कर रहा हूँ Croatian: Šalim se Czech: Já si legraci Swedish: Jag skämtar Estonian: Ma nalja Japan: 私は冗談を言っている … As you can see(?) in Russian you need just one word and 4 chars to write/say “I’m joking”. Thank you. -- Shamil P.S. Gustav, I didn’t find translation to Danish on translate.google.com – what it is?