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hochiwich Thu 09-May-13 13:08:28

One sometimes sees howlers on foreign menus but this description of a ukulele on an ebay listing must be the most glorious example of mangled English I've ever seen:
Ukulele is now very common keyboard instrument ancestors,the emergence of the keyboard and use and YouKe Click view over the harp in great association,it is the history of the first thing stringed instrument. Its principle and the voice is very similar, just using the wheels to replace play violin bow, when hand rotation harp tail crank, is located in the piano in the resin package the wheel will turn, to promote the string vibration voice. The wheels to provide uke continued sound power, but the player with another hand to press harp carry the following key, to knock on different string sends out the different pitch (like a piano, press different keyboard, harp within the body corresponding knock on different steel sheet issued each pitch).
Ukulele small portable, enjoyed by young and old, well by people, learn, easy to play, harmony is rich, timbre bright, folk music, pop, blues, jazz can use ukulele to play.

feetlebaum Sat 11-May-13 17:27:06

I have 'Brian's Latin Lesson' in script form here:

www.epicure.me.uk/latinlesson.html

feetlebaum Sat 11-May-13 17:30:36

A remember a menu in Corfu somewhere, that proudly offered
'Fried teak and onionisms'

Galen Sat 11-May-13 17:46:34

Tunisia stuffed buffets of wind.

dustyangel Sat 11-May-13 18:32:43

Portuguese:Very dirty pig on a burnt grill. Barbecued Black pork is a local delicacy.

agnesP Fri 01-Nov-13 12:52:11

Ana, I studied philosophy for a while and I'm not much the wiser on that one

gracesmum Fri 01-Nov-13 12:59:17

Am I being incredibly dense (don't answer that) but I don't understand your reference, agnesP confused

feetlebaum Fri 01-Nov-13 13:42:54

The ukulele referenced in the first posts on this thread sounds to me like a hurdy-gurdy, and not a uke at all. Those are played by pressing keys which damp strings, while turning a handle to make a friction wheel revolve and excite the strings.

See and hear one at www.ted.com/talks/caroline_phillips_hurdy_gurdy_for_beginners.html

KatyK Fri 01-Nov-13 18:57:14

My sister's Belgian friend, whose English is usually pretty much perfect said to my sister 'your eyebrows are a lovely shape, do you unplug them?' I had a Spanish friend some years ago who said she hadn't been well and had to go to the doctors to get a 'description'. smile