Mandarin: mei2you3 shen2me
Yiddish: gornischt (as in the German gar nichts); or bubkes (literally, "beans")
Vietnamese: không (both a negation particle and a noun, literally "air" )
Hebrew: klum
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 11:11 am
Finish - ei mitään
Swedish - ingenting
Danish - ingenting, intet
Icelandic - ekkert
Italian - niente
Norwegian - ikke
Duits - niet
Hungarian - semmi
Merry X-mas
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Sanctuary
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 11:33 am
French: "Rien"
At least, to my knowledge.
Editing:
Eek, sorry Francis, missed you up there!
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Francis
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 11:55 am
ça ne fait "rien"!
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Sanctuary
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 11:59 am
Je regrette, je parle une peu françis mais ne beaucoup pas. S'il vous plaît, excuse moi.
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Levi
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 12:07 pm
Quote:
Duits - niet
Niet is Dutch, not German. :wink:
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juergenb
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 01:22 pm
nic - czech
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roger
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 02:16 pm
urs53 wrote:
Isn't saying nothing the same in all languages?
Ah, you mean the word 'nothing'!?
Nichts - German
Oh. My best recollection is of something more like "nix, nein, and hell no!"
But yeah, I can say nothing in any language.
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urs53
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 04:31 pm
Roger, you didn't hear me saying that, did you? It is pretty accurate! :-)
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roger
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Thu 23 Dec, 2004 06:05 pm
Of course not, urs. That was GI talk, otherwise known as dirty dutch. If you haven't heard of that particular dialect, it speaks well of you.
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urs53
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Fri 24 Dec, 2004 03:51 am
:-)
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Francis
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Fri 24 Dec, 2004 03:59 am
Hi urs! wie gehts?
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urs53
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Fri 24 Dec, 2004 04:01 am
Hallo Francis! Sehr gut, danke. Dir auch?
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satt fs
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Fri 24 Dec, 2004 04:05 am
nai -- japanese
wu -- chinese
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alaskanordmann
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Thu 13 Jan, 2005 03:52 pm
Norwegian: Ingenting or intet. Ikke means not, and ikke noe/noen, means no (i.e. "Jeg hadde ikke noe valg" = I had no choice).
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dangerousdashie
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Fri 14 Jan, 2005 08:55 pm
as levi said kloom is nothing in hebrew but so is shoom davar
shoom- no
davar- thing