I have a peculiar little hobby. Some people collect stamps or Russian dolls or Fabergé eggs. My collection is all in my head: the phrase, "You have salad in your pants" in several unique languages. This all began on the ride to a scout camping trip as a lad of, say 14, when cousin Spencer taught everyone in the suburban the Spanish phrase, "Tienes ensalada en tus pantelones." I became fascinated. I became obsessed.It's been ten years, and if this was all I'd been doing for ten years I might feel a little underproductive. Here are the languages I have it memorized in:
- English
- Spanish
- American
- German
- Swedish
- French
- American Sign Language
- Japanese
- Punjabi
- Mandarin
- Russian
- Portuguese
- Korean
- Hmong
- Norwegian
- Czech
- Finnish
- Lithuanian
- Ilonggo
- Italian
- Latin
- Polish
- Greek
- Mongolian
- Estonian
13 comments:
I am amazed you found a picture to go along with this post.
I made the picture myself! I didn't use Photoshop or even the Gimp! All I had was Paint, and it worked out.
It looks good... Really it does.
I'm also impressed with the graphic. And where do they speak Ilonggo?
It's a dialect in the Philippines. My roommate Jared speaks it.
what's the difference between american and english? trousers?
"ye hae salad in yer trousers"
that is more irish i think
Habes lactuca in tui toga. Phew! That made me realize how much Latin I have forgotten.
that's pretty impressive...the most I would put effort in to it would be to go to babblefish and to go through all the languages.
but of course, I'm related to Harrison...I'm naturally lazy.
"Tu turi salota savo kelnese". That would be Lithuanian, and since its a 100 percent phonetic language, sound it out exactly how its spelled.
Feeling the love on that sweet picture you created.
Also, feeling slightly sad that a couple weeks ago, I threw out a few pieces of scrap paper I found that had your phrase written in Hebrew and...what other languages? I think the others you already have listed. Ah well.
I've told people that you do this. ha ha ha. I had no idea you knew it in that many. Funny.
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