Re: WWIII against the S. African Navy?

On Sep 13, 7:54 pm, Dennis <tsalagi18NOS...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Googletran:

Now that is a pretty impressive improvement. Almost 100% accurate, no
obvious misunderstandings....

Failed to explain my kw problem, but that’s asking too much, I kwite
agree.

Pigi and I very rarely do bursts of Italian but it does no harm to
remind chaps and chapesses that this is an international ng.

On “eventually”:

        It sounds like he means 'possibly'.  You have the same false friend
in French.

Also Spanish and Portuguese, at least, among the Romance languages.
And German, too.

Try out “actually” while you are at it. Interesting. In 17th-century
English it meant much the same as (eg French) actuellement.
Eventually, now.... (consults OED).... much the same. Earliest cite
for modern English meaning is 1823; earlier it meant, and I kwote,
“That will arise or take effect in a certain contingency [1683]”. Much
like what it means in almost every other language that’s grabbed the
word.

Now, let’s get down to “sophisticated” :)


But I do not understand what the French have to do with it.... :)

Pretty good computer translation, unless you put your own efforts in
there :)


        Yes, and do the Italians call the French 'frogs'?  I doubt it,
since the words don't sound alike in Italian.

Well, French and frog don’t sound all that alike in English, either.
And fwiw the ordinary Italian for “frog” is “rana”, not “batracio”,
which is just the Egregio Dottore being “dotto”.
I have to say I am not well up on abusive Italian terms for other
nations, except that they are not nearly as widespread as in English
or indeed French. Mostly, Italians reserve such derogatory expressions
for Italians from other parts of Italy.
Still, I knew a charming Argentine chap who was frekwently described
as “kwel marochino” -- “that Moroccan”. I am beginning to fall in
love with kw. I am also well pissed off with my posh, three-week-old
Apple aluminium keyboard. It was only a small glass of wine that
spilled on it. Californian, too. But kw it is for a while. Kwick brown
fox, and all that. Kwod erat demonstrandum.

I might even make a religion here: the letter that May Not Be Named.
“Between the P and the R, Brethren, lies the mystery. May he who
slashes the tail of the O suffer at the stake and so find his
kwietus.”

Time to free the mystery letter from a long, unhappy marriage with
that open-legged *** U, no? A jagged W in an ekwal and endlessly
stormy relationship with a sound, Germanic K: we will conkwer the
world together.

Perhaps we should start a thread on nationalistic insults. Then again,
perhaps not. You gringos wouldn’t get it.
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