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<font size=3>here some suggestions (also some might be rasist according
to cultural heredity) I have got from other people. Send pls your
sugestions if something come to the minds to find a best solutin.<br>
Olga<br>
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In German there is a saying "Es sind zwei Welten", when people
are really quite far apart.<br>
"ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>"You what?" <br>
"Sorry, what was that?" <br>
"Didn't get that!" (habs nicht kapiert) <br>
"To get it or not to get it..." <br>
"Sounds like <b>double-dutch</b> to me" ("das waren für
mich böhmische Dörfer", Kauderwelsch - in
deutsch)</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>"You what? <b>Tower of
Babel</b>?" <br>
"Can you say that again in Pidgin so I might understand it?"
<br>
" I think we got our wires crossed" (meaning we don't
understand each other) ie. <b>getting your wires
crossed</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>"He speaks a bit of a<b>
gobbledeegook</b>, but it certainly ain't English - not even flipping
Thames Estuary." (Thames Estuary refers to the wider expanse of the
Thames where a peculiar London accent is spoken. Most punk groups came
from London and sang in that dialect, - like Sex Pistols, the Clash, the
Adverts, the Slits etc.)</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>
<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>"Sounds chinese to
me" <br>
"Wasn't exactly music to my ears." "Sounds like Fritz or
Frog or something like that." "He sounds Swedish, well, maybe
Dutch." (polite</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>description of a heavy German
accent in front of a German
person)</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>He has kissed some blarney
stone! <b>kissing the blarney stone (or how not to be silent in 180
languages)</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3> <br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>(Ironic - to kiss the blarney
stone means having the 'gift of the gab', ie. being very eloquent, <br>
goes back to an Irish stone which promises eternal eloquence and pilgrims
go there and kiss it, then holding forth - i.e philosophising - in
alcoholic stupour. I think I passed the blarney stone when I was in
Ireland. (one has to kiss it upside down, sort of standing on one's head.
That's typically Irish. probably catholic-irish.) <br>
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