[dba-VB] OT: I'm joking...

И? ;) (pronounced as semi-long 'e' in 'Beatles')

One letter, one word - can you beat Russian? (I didn't yet mention here but there is a special Russian slang broadly used "in masses" here when you can use three, max four words to express everything. I must say this slang is "prohibited" to use when kids and women are around, so I'd not use it here - you can Google YouTube to hear some - Madonna before her visit here this August used one of this words in her advertisement of her coming concert on Palace Square here in St.Petersburg, in front of Hermitage (Hermitage officials and Russian Orthodox Church officials asked Madonna to not use uncensored (Russian) slang during that concert - and she didn't but as usual she behaved rather extravagant during this concert as I have seen in one of the clips (I wasn't there on Palace Square that day))...)

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Shamil

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From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:03 PM
To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.'
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] OT: I'm joking...

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.

 

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Shamil

 

P.S. Gustav, I didn’t find translation to Danish on translate.google.com – what it is?

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