[quote]Miserere wrote:
grey wrote:
I’ve noticed that some languages are better at describing certain things than others.
For example…
Lets take the butterfly.
In english it sounds nice…butterfly.
In french also…papillon pronounced papion…very soft.
In Italian…farfalla. Just lovely.
In Russian Babochka…also pleasant.
Even Japanese it’s quite nice…chouchou or batafurai.
In German however we have the…schmetterling. Sounds like a new type of machine gun.
Just for fun.
Ha ha ha! That’s so wierd, my wife and I (she speaks a bunch of languages) have often played this game of comparing words, and our classic example to use with friends is butterfly. For some reason, it is completely different in every language we know of. We also noted how nice it sounds in all of them, but we never knew how it was said in German! Thanks for that, at last I’ll be able to show her that T-Nation is useful for something after all
Just to add to the list:
In Spanish: mariposa
In Portuguese: borboleta, very bouncy if pronounced with a Brazilian accent, something like booh-boo-LE-tah, with the h in booh pronounced like the hissing ch sound in German.
In Dutch: vlinder, I don’t like it, it sounds like the name of the goalkeeper on some obscure eastern European soccer team.
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[quote]gojira wrote:
The only other language I speak is “Navy”.
Picked it up in my youth and became fluent in it while working on a 73 Chevy van with a 307 V-8 shoved in an engine compartment designed for a six. Changing the spark plugs took hours and I always broke at least one porcelain.
I later perfected it when I owned a '63 MGB. Fun car, but what a nightmare. To this day British engineering makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You know, Lucas electrics (the Prince of Darkness) dual carbs and two six volt positive ground batteries. This is why I don’t own any British bikes (although I lust after the Brough Superior SS100).
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Damn, gojira! You must be one of them Testosterone Women I done heard tell about!
Here’s a sweet photoshop job i did of me and my two younger twin sisters. I’m Dave and I’m a student at Penn State. I’m a 20 year-old junior and getting up at the asscrack of dawn to go to the gym is one of the only things that helps me focus on my studies.
A fun fact is that i make out with my sisters when drunk guys talk to them.
Yes. Just about all of them have been 2-3 inches taller…before heels. Then, they towered over me by 4-6 inches easy. I’ve only dated a couple that were the same height or an inch or two shorter. I wear Doc Marten’s when I go out. They give me a couple inches in height.
Stacey is 5’6". We see eye-to-eye if she is in flat-soled shoes and I wear my Docs.
For some reason, shorter girls like super tall guys. Medium-to-tall women tend to be much more open to men of varying height.
Many of those that were taller did contemplate if height would be an issue. However, my wonderful personality (and other stuff) is enought to offset the height issue.
[quote]Leeuwer wrote:
Nate Dogg wrote:
When I was 10 or 11, my mom was sued by the parents of a friend of mine (at the time) because I busted his head open with a steel pipe after he had hit me in the nuts with a rock (the whole incident was an accident. I didn’t mean to crack his skull open and nearly kill him and force him to wear glasses the rest of his life.)
Damn Nate, you’re a psycho !
Personal question for you though : are your girlfriends generally taller than you ?
I’m 5’8 and she’s 6’, and she we bust each other’s balls about it constantly.
If you got any good ones to share, now’s the time ;-)[/quote]
Was told by the editor (lou schuler i think was his name) of mens health that the reason i couldn’t be in there magazine was because of my skin tone (something to do with lighting, camera and a person’s skin tone)
4)I modify helicopters for a living.[/quote]
this is a pic of me a few weeks back at an aussie pub in manhattan, watching the cricket.
obscure fact: I will be in a calender going on sale on Australia Day here in NYC, its for charity for a young aussie kid who needs special treatment who can only get it here in the states.
They just needed footballers who play for the New York team and all we had to do was show up, plus they were giving us free beer, which we paid for anyway, since its all for charity
[quote]gojira wrote:
The only other language I speak is “Navy”.
Picked it up in my youth and became fluent in it while working on a 73 Chevy van with a 307 V-8 shoved in an engine compartment designed for a six. Changing the spark plugs took hours and I always broke at least one porcelain.
I later perfected it when I owned a '63 MGB. Fun car, but what a nightmare. To this day British engineering makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You know, Lucas electrics (the Prince of Darkness) dual carbs and two six volt positive ground batteries. This is why I don’t own any British bikes (although I lust after the Brough Superior SS100).
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Same here bro.
I wear cowboy boots actually.
I always say, a man who can get a hot, taller chick, must REALLY be good
[quote]Nate Dogg wrote:
Yes. Just about all of them have been 2-3 inches taller…before heels. Then, they towered over me by 4-6 inches easy. I’ve only dated a couple that were the same height or an inch or two shorter. I wear Doc Marten’s when I go out. They give me a couple inches in height.
Stacey is 5’6". We see eye-to-eye if she is in flat-soled shoes and I wear my Docs.
For some reason, shorter girls like super tall guys. Medium-to-tall women tend to be much more open to men of varying height.
Many of those that were taller did contemplate if height would be an issue. However, my wonderful personality (and other stuff) is enought to offset the height issue.
