Random foreign language phrases

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  1. I'minmyunderwear

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    yo quiero ver tu el gato
     
  3. Flashdown

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    We use the word lekker in the same way in Afrikaans, which is a language which evolved from Dutch when the Dutch settlers came to South-Africa in 1652
     
  4. SpacemanSpiff

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    ACHTUNG!!!!!!!!!!!


    ill always remember that word because it was all over the high quality meat processing equipment we had at work....damn stuff was so expensive they would fly in a repair guy from germany on the rare occasion anything broke (almost always because of user error)
     
  5. hotwater

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    In the movie predator 2 I remember Maria Conchita Alonso using the phrase ''El diablo vino por ellos.'' The devil came for them.
     
  6. Callate cabron! Voy a matarte!
     
  7. Joshua Tree

    Joshua Tree Remain In Light

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    I could never make sense of French , but the last 2 German ones go some thing like excuse me I don't understand ,1 glass of bier.plz. first one is something to do with your best train/bus station.
     
  9. Aquarius8

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    3 Cherokee language words I know (not a foreign, but a Native American Language originally in the southeastern USA and Oklahoma):
    O-si-yo = hello, Tsa-La-Gie = Cherokee (self name) and Wa-Do (Thank you).
     
  10. soulpoker

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    Bytka abo ne bytka, to je zapytka!
     
  11. WOLF ANGEL

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    "C'est la vie" = "Such is life"
     
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    "Déjà vu" = 'The feeling of having already experienced a situation in the present time'.
     
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    "Bona fide" = 'Genune' / Real
     
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    "Ipso facto" = "By that very fact"
     
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    "A capella" " - 'A song sang without musical instrument/s / accompaniment'
     
  16. soulpoker

    soulpoker Senior Member

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    Or Archie Bunker's version, "ipso fatso" :laughing:
     
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    "Va t'en ailleurs" = "Go somewhere else." I use it at work. A lot.
     
  18. soulpoker

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    Va a fanculo, which really means to go somewhere else!
     
  19. WOLF ANGEL

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    "Faux Pas" = An embarassing error made ..... I think we've all had one/two of them in our time
     
  20. soulpoker

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    ¿Como es Juan?
    Um, burritos...huh-huh, huh-huh.
     

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