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Subject: Your favourite phrase |
Daria
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Posted 13-05-03 - 02:49 PM
What is Your favourite wise phrase? I like the best "per aspero ad astro". Through the difficulties to stars. (or may be it sounds another in English). I collect them. :)) In different languges. |
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Lena
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Posted 13-05-03 - 08:31 PM
EGO SUM QUI SUM - I am what I am ( and what I feel can't be wrong) |
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Flasher T
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Posted 14-05-03 - 11:01 AM
So Dem A Com ;) |
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Daria
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Posted 14-05-03 - 03:55 PM
Flasher, by the way, how is this frase translated? Curiosity eats me :) So many years I've been wondering about it's meanning. :) |
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Flasher T
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Posted 15-05-03 - 11:48 AM
We've all been. Nobody knows for sure, or even if it's supposed to mean anything. My theory is it's a mix of Greek and Latin roots, roughly translated as "Let the people come together"... with a bompin' song ;) |
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Lena
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Posted 15-05-03 - 08:52 PM
SO DEM A COM is just SO HERE I COME in Etypish :)
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Lena
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Posted 15-05-03 - 08:59 PM
...and about Latin, by the way... SO I AM WHAT I AM AND WHAT I FEEL CAN'T BE WRONG in Latin sounds like SIC EGO SUM QUI SUM ET QUID SENTIO ERROREM NON POTEST EST. What a crazy coincidence: EGO SUM QUI SUM is a sentence from my family embleme...
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mondano
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Posted 16-05-03 - 07:53 PM
"Life Is Just A Game" DJ Sammy.
So true, you decide the way you want to play the game. |
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Daria
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Posted 17-05-03 - 02:16 PM
Lena - cool! :)) |
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Daria
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Posted 17-05-03 - 02:21 PM
mondano, I like Shakespears's frase, that life is theatre and people are actors... but I don't remember how it sounds in origin in English... :) |
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Azamat
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Posted 19-05-03 - 06:51 AM
Don't hurry - otherwise will people laugh
In russian it sounds better. |
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Daria
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Posted 19-05-03 - 01:42 PM
Azamat %)) in russian there is a frase which sounds: chicken laugh. And in English it sounds - it's enough to make a horse laugh. :)) funny. :) |
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Azamat
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Posted 20-05-03 - 04:00 AM
Yeah - it's dangerous joke. :)
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Daria
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Posted 23-05-03 - 01:35 PM
I read that frase in a book, so it's not my thiking. :)) About a horse. Ah, I remember the title of that book - American-Russian Slang... By the way, what does this frase means - "to cut a slack"? Can anybody explane? |
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Flasher T
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Posted 23-05-03 - 03:48 PM
It means, to not judge someone harshly. Originally came from giving a horse slack in the reigns, I believe. |
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Daria
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Posted 27-05-03 - 02:54 PM
Thank You Flasher! :) |
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A.T.L.
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Posted 02-06-03 - 08:36 PM
I love a part from the song SO DEM A COM
There is  yelling something which sounds like:
COME COMMERS
If you pronounce it in Dutch: then you hear KOMKOMMERS.
Komkommers = Cucumber
Also in Set The World On Fire you hear far at the background between "Set the world on fire ..."
in the slow part ...
Then you can hear somewhere SUKKEL
that means something like "STUPID PERSON"
It sounds pretty funny :)
I also discovered in more songs this kinda
"miss undastood" frases ... :)
see ya
Arjen
ps:
My favo lyric parts are also what Lena said ...
and also:
What I Feel Can Not Be Wrong ...
and
I want you to feel no more loneliness :)
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Lena
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Posted 17-06-03 - 08:48 PM
What an interesting language is Dutch!
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