As you know, I decided to post a welcome to our international visitors, and in showing Mom how I was able to write Arabic and Malay, I discovered this site linked here. I was perusing it for additional phrases when I was stopped cold by the following in Uzbek:
Mening kayiqim baliq bilan to'lgan
When I recovered, I discovered that the site will also translate that same phrase into Turkish where you can chose from: Hoverkraftımın içi yılan balığı dolu or Hoverkraftımın içi müren dolu
And Armenian: Իմ օդաթիռը լի է օձաձկերով
And Afrikaans: My skeertuig is vol palings
And Estonian: Mu hõljuk on angerjaid täis
And Chinese: 我的氣墊船充滿了鱔魚 [我的气垫船充满了鳝鱼]
And Greenlandic!!!!!: Umiatsiaasara pullattagaq nimerussanik ulikkaarpoq
(Honestly, did YOU know there was a Greenlandic language?)
And for our polyglot crowd:
Here's the Dutch: Mijn luchtkussenboot zit vol paling
Did you get that? My LUCHTKUSSENBOOT!!! Someone is kissing my LUCHT BOOT!
And Italian: Il mio aliscafo è pieno di anguille
And Polish: For Grazyna, Paul, Joanna: Mój poduszkowiec jest pełen węgorzy
And Romanian (for Delia and Josseline): Vehicolul meu pe pernă de aer e plin cu ţipari
Now I could make you all look this up, but here's the translation::
Are you ready?
My hovercraft is full of eels!
Is the internet great or what?????
BUT then there's also these:
In Breton:
Sot oc'h gant ar binîoù?
Are you fond of bagpipes?
Gouzout a ran ober krampouezh.
I know how to make pancakes.
Or this in Cornish:
Yma pluven a-ji dhe'n lyver.
There's a pen inside the book.
Or this in Danish:
Jeg er allergisk over for muskatnød
I am allergic to nutmeg
You never know when you will need to say that.
Or this in Esperanto:
Mi volas brakumi tiun sciuron.
I want to hug that squirrel.
Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!
Could you please send for the hall porter? There appears to be a frog in my bidet!
Or in Romanian:
Cu cana poţi să bei lapte, dar cu pisica nu poţi să tai lemne
You can drink milk with a cup, but you can't cut wood with a cat.
Or in Swedish:
De jättelika kräftorna försöker ta över Jorden!
The giant crayfishes are attempting to conquer The Earth!
Or in Lojban ( What is Lojban?)
pavyseljirna kavbu ba'oxuku
Have you caught that Unicorn yet?
OH HAPPY DAY! Can you say that in Greenlandic or Lojban?
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