Re: asking for the bathroom

I like this Carashan...looks quite Eastern, perhaps closer to Romanian
though than Dalmatian.

In Dalmatian we'd have:

Unde ye budaya?
where is toilet-DEF
where is the toilet?

"buda" comes from German "Bude", cf. English "booth". Its most common
meanings are "booth, stall" and "toilet, privy, restroom".

I didn't have to look up anything for this either!

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Dan Jones wrote:

> In Carashán it's simple:
>
> Don'es lo domeilo, se plasea ao domeu?
> where is the toilet, if pleases-3s to-the master?
> Where's the toilet please?
>
> However, since "domeilo" (literally "little house") can also mean "shed", you might
> get the answer:
>
> Nu l'avemo, culón, acest'es un coveilo!
> not it have-1p, arse, this is a apartment.
> We don't have one, pillock, this is an apartment!
>
> In some downmarket areas of Carasha City you may get this answer anyway, as
> quite a few cheap apartments lack toilets.
>
> I didn't actually have to look at my dictionary for this one, or the reply!
>
> Dan
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Ka yokonáu iti báyan: "cas'alyá abhiyo".
>
> Ka tso iti mantabayan: "yama zaláyá
> alánekayam la s'alika, cas'alika; ka yama
> yavarryekayan arannáam la vácika, labekayam
> vácika, ka ali cas'alyeko vanotira."
> -----------------------------------------------
> Dan Jones
>
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