User talk:Psygremlin/sig

What you have

 * Speak -- English
 * Praat! -- Dutch (doesn't have a formal/informal in imperatives?)
 * Khuluma! -- Xhosa/Zulu
 * Поговорите! -- Russian
 * 話しなさい -- Japanese (informal, formal is: 話してください)
 * 말하십시오 -- Korean
 * Siarad! -- Welsh
 * Hable! -- Spanish (formal)
 * 講話 -- Chinese
 * Parlez! -- French (formal)
 * Fale! -- Portuguese
 * Sprich! -- German (informal)
 * Zungumza! -- Swahili (informal)
 * Tal -- Danish
 * Prata -- Swedish
 * Snakk -- Norwegian
 * Tala -- Icelandic
 * Sermā -- Latin
 * Parla -- Italian (informal)
 * Runāt -- Latvian

What you could add

 * Parolu -- Esperanto

Need more work before adding

 * Labhair -- Irish, unconjugated
 * Μιλήσει -- Greek (? Can't find a good conjugation table)
 * Puhuttakoon -- Finnish (? Some sources suggest simply "Puhu")
 * דבר -- Hebrew (? Unconfirmed)
 * बोलो -- Hindi (? Unconfirmed)

Thanks
Ta for the suggestions. I'll fiddle with my sig and add those. Praat is actually Afrikaans (altho might be Dutch too, A is rooted in Dutch.) Khuluma is isiXhosa or isiZulu (same root) - actually it should be !Khuluma, cos the K is a click sound. I'm guessing Arabic would be Aslaam mu-Alaykum, but I'd have to check the spelling. -- PsyGremlin  18:57, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Xhosa and Zulu!!! duh... :) Something I didn't really check. Arabic isn't "Asalaam mu-Alaykum" which is actually "Peace be with you" essentially, and thus a greeting.  I'll try and get Arabic figured out, it's difficult, because there's kind of a lack of information sometimes.  Afrikaans is more or less Danish with a dialect word-choice difference really.  So, it doesn't surprise me that they're the same.  I actually expected Danish/Norwegian/Swedish to all be the same, and I think they are all based off the "tal-" stem for the formal word "to speak", but the ones above are based on their words for "chat", which is so modern they do have differences. -- 02:41, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

German
German's formal imperative requires the address of "Sie", so, "Sprechen Sie!" not simply "Sprechen!". The informal "Sprich" does not have this requirement. -- 17:04, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Changed accordingly. We stand on formalities around here. -- PsyGremlin  17:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

IIRC... and if I am reading this right
Prata (One of your Sig/talk link text, Swedish) is "silver" in Galician (I don't know Galician, I just stumble across the word when I use random language of the computer's colouring to name computers). You may want to put the ambiguity into the consideration. 06:26, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Erm... until today I had no idea Galacia exists (populated by Glaciers, I assume :) ). That said, as one must do with the inscruitable Japanese... context is important. (Context being a German word, meaning, you're screwed.) -- Ψ Gremlin  07:31, 10 November 2010 (UTC)