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I'm still using "Ahoy-hoy" as Bell intended.
by djbusby 3y ago
I'm still using "Ahoy-hoy" as Bell intended.
- adamomada 3y agoTry out “Pronto?” like the Italians for extra flavour
- bdowling 3y agoTry “Moshi-moshi?” for a Japanese flavor.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoOr a Chinese Wei? Or may favorite, shei ya? (Said a in a teenage girl accent)
- thaumasiotes 3y agoWell, this is a pretty niche question, but 谁啊 and 谁呀 are pretty much indistinguishable. Do you know how Chinese people tend to write it? In my mind it's 谁啊.
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago谁啊 could be said by anyone, 谁呀 is the just the cute inflected 谁啊。My 7 year old over uses 呀 I think because of the kid shows he watched when he was younger.
- clove 3y ago呀 is grammatically correct for use with words ending with a long e sound. (This post is addressed to the person asking a question below.)
- robertlagrant 3y agoI haven't seen High and Low[0] in decades, but the way Toshiro Mifune answers the phone is burned into my brain. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film)
- defaultcompany 3y agoAmazing that's exactly what I thought of as well.
- ksenzee 3y ago¡Dígame!
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago"Ja wa?" or "Wat mot je?" or "Wazzeggie?" for rude Dutch.
- pavel_lishin 3y agoI answer in Russian, angrily.
- renegade-otter 3y ago"What's up, suka blyat!"
- thaumasiotes 3y agoI tried putting сука блят into Google translate. сука бля translated as "fucking bitch", but pasting in the final т changed the translation to "dry pancakes". Could you shed some light on this?
- asveikau 3y agoMy Russian isn't very fluent, but I do know that "блин!" (pancake, bliny if you are familiar with Russian food) is used as an interjection that's less offensive than блядь. Kind of like saying darn instead of damn, or shoot instead of shit. Perhaps Google Translate was mixing those up. Edit: And perhaps it's assuming your k is a kh and that you want суха instead of suka.
- shagie 3y agoThe term for this is minced oath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_minced_oaths https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_minced_oaths https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Minced_oaths_by_language https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Minced_oaths_by_lang... And in the Russian section... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/блин#Russian https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/блин#Russian
- asveikau 3y agoThank you, I had heard the term before but it wasn't coming to mind.