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. --PsyGremlinSprich! 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

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. --PsyGremlinSermā! 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. [[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)