Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 13:02:58 CDT 2009
So? Max 1 word, 2 letters ha! You can't beat the British. Ask anybody, ask the ozzies for instance... -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Shamil Salakhetdinov Sent: 24 August 2009 18:39 To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.' Subject: [dba-VB] OT: I'm joking... 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? _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com