Re: I wanna marry with you

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:38:47 +0000 (UTC), in talk.origins ,
bdbryant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bobby D. Bryant) in
<drhuum$qg5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, John Wilkins <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Bob Pease wrote:
>>> "rev.goetz" <jimgoetz316@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1138486236.181477.274800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> smahir@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>> www.turkplanet.net
>>>>>
>>>>> Live dating site
>>>> Does "I wanna marry with you" mean that you are hoping to be part of a
>>>> double wedding?
>>>
>>> It means
>>>
>>> "I want make one marriage with some she the English who speak!"
>>
>> I thought it meant "my hovercraft is full of eels", or possibly "I want to
>> fondle your bum"...
>
>'My hovercraft is full of eels' in many languages
>http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
>
>Assorted 'useful' foreign phrases
>http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/useful.htm
>
>They Thought You'd Say This: Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks
>http://www.zompist.com/thought.html
>
>"Oh my god! There's an axe in my head" in 112 languages
>http://www.yamara.com/axe/

Many years ago National Lampoon (is that still being published?) had a
wonderful travel issue. Besides the eye opening story of the Dutch
threat they had the tale of the paranoid abroad. Among the phrases
the paranoid learned was "excuse me but I think my room is afire".

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