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Talk:List of common phrases in various languages
:''Geoffrey (the fun I could have by adding bad translations...but I didn't)''

You mean things like "we go back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?" and such? ;) -- [[User:JohnOwens|John Owens]]

This critter is a little long (38kb).  I wonder if it isn't possible to split it into smaller pieces. [[User:Emperorbma|Emperorbma]] 05:03 2 Jun 2003 (UTC)

(contracted; show full)n them and the people who are looking for common phrases in different languages are likely to be coming from rather different angles. To be honest, it seems to me that there's also something a bit wrong with putting a 'language' from a book or a tv series (even if it's one you *really* like) on an even footing with a real language that people actually speak, and which is the product of thousands of years of, like, culture and stuff.   --[[User:Tremolo|Tremolo]] 04:30, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
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:I've moved that page to [[Common phrases in constructed languages]], and added some more constructed languages from this page to that one. -- [[User:Pne|pne]] 09:55, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)


I presume the [[Frisian language]] is [[West Frisian language]] as they are not mutually comprehensible. [[User:Secretlondon|Secretlondon]] 23:04, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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Hm. Do you speak English and Can you speak English are subtly different... but I suspect that the true intent is to get the person you are speaking to to speak in English. But I can't think of a better (polite) replacement for that purpose. - [[User:Zhen Lin|Zhen Lin]] 11:08, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)

(contracted; show full)understood, regardless of whether the person spoken to could respond or not. I'm reminded of getting onto an airplane and sitting next to a lady from Great Britain. "Do you read?" she asked, offering me a book. "Can you read?" would have been the wrong thing to say. The other function of the original question is to give the person asked the chance to say, "Yes, I do speak English, but only a little.  Please talk slowly." [[User:Patrick0Moran|P0M]] 02:38, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)