Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Mon Aug 24 18:26:18 CDT 2009
Well actually we have quite a few single letter word. A? as in, what? C? as in, see I told you so" K? as in, OK. O! as in, Oh! P. as in Pee. T. as in Tea. U. as in You. Y. as in Why. Bit contrived, but there we go. Ma -----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 19:19 To: 'Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.' Subject: Re: [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))...) -- Shamil -----Original Message----- 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. -- Shamil P.S. Gustav, I didn’t find translation to Danish on translate.google.com – what it is? _______________________________________________ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4364 (20090824) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.esetnod32.ru _______________________________________________ dba-VB mailing list dba-VB at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-vb http://www.databaseadvisors.com