Who speaks a lesser known European Language? need translation help

[northzax]

I ahve a friend travelling around europe for a year and I am making him a going away guidebook with 'helpful' phrases. I have translated the following into Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and would love any others (yes, I am serious)


questions:

1: "(local insult of choice) you drive like a drunken (insert disliked neighboring country)"

2: No, I am from Canada.

3: Excuse me, do you serve Sierra Nevada here?

4: In my country, we call this the catbird seat.

5: Can I have some privacy? I have a shy bladder.

6: I am very sorry, I have clogged your toilet.

7: Have you seen my brown bear?

8: it is no syphilis, I have a saddle rash. Where can I get ointment?

these are all inside jokes that function on many levels. If anyone can help me out with something good like Romanian? Serbo-Croat? Swedish? Finnish? Norwegian? Catalan? Polish? anything? pretty please?

[ZombieNixon]

1. OK, Norwegian:

1. Du kjører liker en full Svenske.
2. Nei, jeg kommer fra Canada.
3. Unnskyld meg, du tjener Sierra Nevada her?
4. I mitt land, kaller vi dette det <<catbird sete>> (I don't know Norwegian for "catbird," sorry - kattfugl, perhaps, which would make "the catbird seat" into <<kattfuglsetet>> )
5. Kan jeg ha noe uforstyrrethet? Jeg har en sky blære.
6. Jeg er meget trist, har tilstoppet jeg ditt toalett.
7. Har du sett min brun bjørn?
8. Det er syfilis ikke, har jeg et saloverilet. Hvor kan jeg fao salve?

[northzax]

2. sweet! Thank you!

awesome.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Estonian

1: "(local insult of choice) you drive like a drunken (insert disliked neighboring country)"
Kurat, sa sõidad nagu purjus venelane(Russian).

2: No, I am from Canada.
Ei, ma olen Kanadast

3: Excuse me, do you serve Sierra Nevada here?
Vabandus, kas teil on Sierra Nevadat siin?

4: In my country, we call this the catbird seat.
Minu kodumaal hüüame seda vihmakassi istet.

5: Can I have some privacy? I have a shy bladder.
Kas ma saan üksi olla? Mul on häbelik põis.

6: I am very sorry, I have clogged your toilet.
Palun anna mulle andeks, ma ummistasin teie tualetti.

7: Have you seen my brown bear?
Kas oled näinud mu pruuni karu?

8: it is no syphilis, I have a saddle rash. Where can I get ointment?

Ei ole luues. Mul on ratsutamise lööve. Kust kohaks saaksin salva?

.....more or less...

[northzax]

4. nice! Thankyou

I never would have come up with Estonian!

[LiberalEsto]

9. The all-purpose Estonian curse word

is kurat. It's pronounced goo-rot. It means devil, but is considered much nastier.

[ironflange]

5. I can swear in Ukrainian

But, sorry, that's about it.

[FloridaJudy]

6. I can curse like a sailor in Serbo-Croat

The neighbors thought it was a hoot to teach my toddler all the local vulgarities, and I learned them from him.

Otherwise my mastery of that language is truly pitiful, considering I lived in Serbia for almost a year.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Many years ago, when a college where I taught was debating

the idea of abolishing its foreign language requirement, I came up with the following Modest Proposal:

"Students will be exempted from the foreign language requirement if they can say the following phrases in any of the languages formerly taught at ______ College:

1. We're Number One!

2. How much is that in real money?

3. If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German. (For students who choose German or Japanese as the language requirement to get out of, this can be changed to, "If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking Russian.")

4. That's not football--that's soccer!

5. Take the bus? Are you kidding?

6. You expect me to eat THAT? Where's the nearest McDonald's?

7. But Officer, I thought your culture was tolerant of escapades like this.

8. Doesn't anyone in this Godforsaken village speak English?

[XemaSab]

8. .

:rofl:

[kineneb]

10. ya' know, I could have passed that test

took 3 years of German in high school, but went on to get a minor in German anyway...

[northzax]

11. just a bump to take advantage

of the Sunday afternoon talents!