Text in some of the many languages of the world

Ĉu vi parolas ĉi tiun belan lingvon?

Anybody else been bored enough to pass their time on Google translate?

Nope!

No, unless stuck with a German word.

MawBe

Anybody else been bored enough to pass their time on Google translate?

I find videos in languages and then I find the lyrics online and then I get an idea of the meaning from Google translate or from a translation given with the lyrics page, and then I look up the language and find out a little about it.

Very often when I am doing things on this computer I put YouTube on in another instantiation of the browser and then I have MyMix playing in the background, and some of the music is videos that I have watched and some are new to me, so I learn.

If you or others want to explore, you might like this song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZFCq5ESQzQ

One could identify the language.

One could find the lyrics and find their meaning.

I’ll leave you too it EP - if it passes the time, good luck to you!

MawBe

I’ll leave you too it EP - if it passes the time, good luck to you!

Ditto!

ElderlyPerson

Text in some of the many languages of the world

I don’t understand what the thread is about sorry EP

Well, eight posts so far and no interest shown.

Yet maybe some people are looking but not posting.

Maybe someone will post and the thread will get going well.

I don’t understand what’s expected here, tbh.

Lucca

ElderlyPerson

Text in some of the many languages of the world

I don’t understand what the thread is about sorry EP

There are threads in French, at least one thread in German, yet there are many other languages. This thread is to explore just samples of the vast number of languages that exist, maybe turning up wonderfully serendipitous spin-offs of things people, including me, would never know about otherwise.

Blossoming

I don’t understand what’s expected here, tbh.

Nor do I.
Does OP just want people to write random things in random languages ?

Blossoming

I don’t understand what’s expected here, tbh.

Well nothing is expected but if you want to have a go, you could watch the video to which I posted a link and then copy the title and paste into Google translate and detect the language.

Then if you wish you could paste the title into a search engine and added a space and the word

lyrics

and find the lyrics.

There may be an invitation to translate to English. If not, you could copy and paste into Google translate and get an idea of what the lyrics mean in English.

Then you could play the video again and notice how the singer emotively expresses the lyrics, whilst you are understanding the gist of what she is singing about.

Well, if you know of some language and would like to post something in that language that would be good.

Then those readers who so wish could try to find out which language it is and what the sample text means.

I think you are flogging a dead horse EP

MawBe

I think you are flogging a dead horse EP

It is just a chat thread.

I would prefer a vegan acceptable phrase - I would never flog any creature, living or deceased.

I would need to think about what phrase I could coin.

In the background some beautiful music has just started.

Here is a link.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwbWvGtaZGo

Up until relatively recently, I misunderstood the saying, ‘flogging a dead horse’.
I thought that it meant trying to sell a deceased animal of the equine variety, as opposed to beating it.

As in the TV program ‘Flog It!’
I can’t imagine that nice Paul Martin getting involved in either activity

ElderlyPerson

Well, eight posts so far and no interest shown.

Yet maybe some people are looking but not posting.

Maybe someone will post and the thread will get going well.

I think this shows that something is very much expected, but people are just not interested.

Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone’, I say ‘feed two birds with one scone’.

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.

Tha mi Albannach ach bidh mi a' bruidhinn Beurla.

FannyCornforth

Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone’, I say ‘feed two birds with one scone’.

Excellent.

You don't have to fit in with violent sayings.

Ailidh

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig.

Tha mi Albannach ach bidh mi a' bruidhinn Beurla.

Thank you.

As a result of your post I have found this video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROoWGPsyzFg

So I have now learned some interesting things today as a result of this thread. Some things that I might not ever have learned otherwise.

ElderlyPerson

FannyCornforth

Instead of ‘kill two birds with one stone’, I say ‘feed two birds with one scone’.

Excellent.

You don't have to fit in with violent sayings.

As long you are not rhyming “scone” with “stone” ???