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Talk:List of common phrases in various languages
Re: Japanese

?à?µ?à?µ (moshi moshi) should only be used on the telephone; it's not a general "hello," and the article should reflect this in some way. ?¡?ú?Í (konnichiwa) is probably better here.

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For some reason the top left cell of this table (A1 which should be blank or say "Language") isn't coming out right (it shifts the entire row to the left); or when it does someone edits back out.  Or maybe my browser is the only one that notices this? - Justfred
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You're right; it's been a few years. I do remember, though, that it's "cuanto c&oacute;mo quieras" :-)

:With all due respect, you remember wrong. <i>Como</i> is accented only when it means "how," not when it means "as." There are sentences in which you could use <i>cu&
amp;amp;amp;aacute;nto como quieras</i>, however. &#8212;Ericamp;amp;amp;#8212;Eric

''cuánto como quieras'' doesn't make sense, whether you put an accent or not. If you want to say ''as much as you like'', that would be ''tanto como quieras''. By the way, ''cuánto'' is also spelled with an accent when it is an exclamation, as in ''¡Cuánto lo siento!'', which is literally "How sorry I am!''-- [[Calypso]]

PS. I'm using the accents on my Spanish keyboard, I wonder if everybody will see them correctly.
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(Humor) Too ridiculous to add to the main page (and not necessarily correct) but:

Dutch-"De enige manier om Godzilla nu nog te doden is met een atoombom."<br> 
English-"The only way to kill [[:Godzilla|Godzilla]] now is with a nuclear weapon."<br>
French-"Maintenant, le seul method pour tuer Godzilla c'est utilizet une arme atomique."<br>
German-"Das einzige weg Godzilla jetst zu to:ten is mit einem atomwaffe."<br>
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Deleted. H.P. Lovecraft nonsense.

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Wouldn't it be more useful to put the languages in alphabetical order? Makes it much easier to look for a certain language.The idea of keeping related languages together is that you can compare similar words, I guess, but this is not easily done in this table. And people are not sticking to the order in the Languages list, anyway. It is obviously not very convenient to have to check that list when you include a new language.
--[[Calypso]]