Re: Translations: work slogans (was Re: Which language is this? (once again))

On 2/4/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Mark Reed wrote:
> > Now I"m going to play "Name That Language!"   I bet I can name that
> > language in ten words!  As I'll be operating with no Google, though, I
> > expect to get a lot of them wrong. :)
>
> Pretty close to an A--- except
> >
> > > Det ved jeg ikke. Jeg arbejder her bare.
> > Dutch
> NOT. Danish I suspect, maybe Norwegian; see below....
D'oh!.  Should have realized that.  Now that I'm paying attention, it
definitely looks like part of the Dano-Norwegio-Swedish continuum, in
which case, by process of elimination, my guess must be Danish. (IIRC,
Norsk would have "vet" rather than "ved", but I could potentially have
that backwards.  In any case, Svenska has "jag" rather than "jeg" for
"I").

> > > Geen idee. Ik werk hier alleen maar.
> > Afrikaans?
> I'd say Dutch, but colloquially there may not be a lot of difference.
Yeah, I only guessed Afrikaans because I thought there was already a
Dutch entry. :)

> Two or three still don't come thru to me, so I'll give you Japanese, Chinese
> and Korean. But AFAIC they could be Georgian, Armenian, Tamil, Khmer,
> Burmese, Aramaic or Cherokee or Deseret.......;-)))
Heh.  Those came through here, and kana and Hangeul make their
respective languages' identification pretty certain. Which leaves the
entry with nothing but Han characters to be Chinese by default.

--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>