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androl · Post by **androl** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:51 am

http://www.meanwhale.com/images/cookie-cat.jpg

"Ich habe dir einen Keks gemacht... habe ihn aber gegesst"

"Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mangi"

what's that in your language?

Jes · Post by **Jes** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:35 pm

starcapitan wrote:I have a question about mobile phones :

I tried to connect to my home-banking via WAP vodafone ( wap.omnitel.it ) and a NOKIA 5300 GPRS and it didn't worked

I tried with a NOKIA E65 connecting with the WLAN Alice and it worked >> I also posted in the forum

Can somebody could explain me why ?

thanks

Mmm... sorry, I've got no idea. Modern devices are not my cup of tea...

By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Gerlin · Post by **Gerlin** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:07 pm

Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" = "
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mangi, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...

androl · Post by **androl** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:10 pm

yes, that's correct, the cookie cat doesn't know proper grammar

probably...

te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comado

capitobi · Post by **capitobi** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:10 pm

Gerlin wrote:
Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" = "
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"
Jes - I think Androl wrote mangi, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...

Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.

For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.

Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?

Ok. I'll stop this.

adameus23 · Post by **adameus23** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:35 am

capitobi wrote:
Gerlin wrote:
Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" = "
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"
Jes - I think Androl wrote mangi, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.

For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.

Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?

Ok. I'll stop this.

If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"

Jes · Post by **Jes** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:50 am

adameus23 wrote:
capitobi wrote:
Gerlin wrote:
Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" = "
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"
Jes - I think Androl wrote mangi, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.

For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.

Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?

Ok. I'll stop this.
If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"

OOPS!!!!

Now I understand it

Anyway... in Spanish... "eat" = "comer" is a REGULAR verb... what a problem!!

HEY!! is there anywhere some Spanish people who is able to help me????!!!

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:22 pm

adameus23 wrote:
capitobi wrote:
Gerlin wrote:
Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" = "
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"
Jes - I think Androl wrote mangi, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.

For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.

Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?

Ok. I'll stop this.
If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"

Important here is that German almost always replaces imperfect with perfect. Therefore, if you don't write it in perfect modus, you are actually increasing the amount of mistakes. Therefore, the original translation "gegesst" is closer to what is meant.

And my proposal for Finnish:
Leivoin sinulle keksin, mutta syömöin sen.
(or either one of the earlier two proposals which were both good.) However, I think "leivoin" ("I baked") is better than "tein" ("I made"), because while in English someone could really say "I made", I don't think anyone would use "tein" in Finnish while cooking just one piece of something as small as a cookie. Therefore, I think not changing the verb once again increases the amount of errors in the sentence.

Finnish having exactly zero irregular verbs/substantives/words, this is of course quite hard to translate.

adameus23 · Post by **adameus23** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:27 pm

@Guest (hopefully you read this)

Why don't you want to join our community, if you have fun playing games in the off-topic-forum? I would be happy to welcome a new member

Jes · Post by **Jes** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:33 am

adameus23 wrote:@Guest (hopefully you read this)

Why don't you want to join our community, if you have fun playing games in the off-topic-forum? I would be happy to welcome a new member

I also was a Guest during a while, before joining here to the forum. I gess the Guest fear the spamming, fishing, cookies and all that stuff... I did so too, thus I first explored the forum, and then I joined to the EBT-forum and the EBT community

(after knowing that it was interesting enough and you were "kind" people to talk to

)

In fact, I visit very frecuently this forum and specially this section because this is one of my favourite sites in Internet, and you're one of the most "e-friendly" "e-firiends". (e-friend= electronic-friend or virtual friend although I think you're no virtual but real

)

adameus23 · Post by **adameus23** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:20 pm

Nice to hear that, thanks

I joined the Forum after reading a lot about the crisis that occured at christmas... and after some weeks I found the Off-topic area and my number of posts began to raise quickly

Jes · Post by **Jes** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:28 pm

adameus23 wrote:Nice to hear that, thanks

I joined the Forum after reading a lot about the crisis that occured at christmas... and after some weeks I found the Off-topic area and my number of posts began to raise quickly

Yeah! You did join almost a year later than me, and now you have almost 2 times more posts than me

(exaggerating a little...)

Ewri · Post by **Ewri** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:05 pm

Anyone seen LonaPo and Bivol here lately?

Gerlin · Post by **Gerlin** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:08 pm

Ewri wrote:Anyone seen LonaPo and Bivol here lately?

hm ... no .. - I was also wondering

androl · Post by **androl** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:52 pm

Jes wrote:Anyway... in Spanish... "eat" = "comer" is a REGULAR verb... what a problem!!

HEY!! is there anywhere some Spanish people who is able to help me????!!!

I thought about changing comer to comar -> lo he comado

Dakkus wrote:Finnish having exactly zero irregular verbs/substantives/words

I don't believe you, there are surely rules in the Finnish language that apply to exactly one word, and that is the same as an irregular word
the word "to be" for example has irregular forms