User talk:Psygremlin/sig

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What you have[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • Parolu -- Esperanto

Need more work before adding[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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. --PsyGremlinПоговорите! 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. --Eira OMTG! The Goat be Praised. 02:41, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

German[edit]

German's formal imperative requires the address of "Sie", so, "Sprechen Sie!" not simply "Sprechen!". The informal "Sprich" does not have this requirement. --Eira OMTG! The Goat be Praised. 17:04, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Changed accordingly. We stand on formalities around here. --PsyGremlinPrata! 17:07, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

IIRC... and if I am reading this right[edit]

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. [[User:K61824|]][[User_talk:K61824|]] 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 GremlinParla! 07:31, 10 November 2010 (UTC)