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One-Note Sentences

17 Sep

Monotonous conversation from around the world:

Finnish:

Etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät etsivät.
“The searching detectives are searching the searching detectives.”

Spanish:

¿Cómo como? ¿Cómo cómo como? Como como como.
“How do I eat? What do you mean, how do I eat? I eat how I eat.”

Icelandic:

Ái á Á á á í á.
“A farmer named Ái, who lives on a farm by the name of Á, owns a female sheep that is in a river.”
Malay:

Sayang, sayang sayang sayang, sayang sayang sayang?
“Darling, I love you, dear, do you love me?”

Romanian:

Stanca sta-n castan ca Stan.
“Stanca stood in a chestnut tree like Stan.”

Hungarian:

A követ követ követ.
“The envoy follows a stone.”

Tagalog:

Bababa ba? Bababa!
“Going down? It is!”

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To me the funniest one is bababa… 😀
And this is what my friends Anita and Dirk added:
"From two to two to two to two."

"Jela je Jela jela ispod jela." Serbian one. Means: Jela had eaten dishes under fir tree.
German: "Fischers Fritz fängt frische Fische, rische Fische fängt Fischers Fritz." …it's about a Fritz hunting for fresh fish.

 
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18 responses to “One-Note Sentences

  1. WinterForLady

    September 17, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Ba ba? 😆 I have just read that Tagalog has 26 phonemes 🙂

     
  2. gdare

    September 17, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Bababa is just hilarious. Do they have more words or there are just a combinations of "b" and "a"? :left:

     
  3. AnitaMargita

    September 17, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Interesting post, Mirabela! :up:"From two to two to two to two." 😀 "Jela je Jela jela ispod jela." Serbian one. Means: Jela had eaten dishes under fir tree. 😀

     
  4. thetomster

    September 18, 2009 at 7:09 am

    😆 I love this stuff "bababa" is :up: but I really like the malayan one "sayang …" :Dthere's one in German: "Fischers Fritz fängt frische Fische, rische Fische fängt Fischers Fritz." … hard to translate … it's about a Fritz hunting for fresh fish …

     
  5. thetomster

    September 18, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    😉 … of course 😀

     
  6. WinterForLady

    September 18, 2009 at 3:09 pm

    Thank you Anita :)May I add these sentences to the post?Dirk, thank you 🙂 Yes, the malayan is the most beautiful one here.I learned German language in elementary school, but I didn't use it for years..and I forgot the most of it 😦 Also may I add your sentence?

     
  7. AnitaMargita

    September 18, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    :yes:, you may! :up:

     
  8. studio41

    September 19, 2009 at 10:09 am

    😀 I agree with you Mira. Bababa ba? Bababa!

     
  9. WinterForLady

    September 25, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    ba 🙂

     
  10. studio41

    October 4, 2009 at 8:10 am

    😀

     
  11. gyng

    October 13, 2009 at 9:10 pm

    "Icelandic:Ái á Á á á í á.“A farmer named Ái, who lives on a farm by the name of Á, owns a female sheep that is in a river.”"So many things said with so little number of letters… Usefully and beautiful… 🙄

     
  12. WinterForLady

    October 16, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Thank you 😀

     
  13. gdare

    October 16, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    From one of my old posts :D"NalunaarasuartaatilioqatigiiffissualiornialeraluarpunngooqWe are going to build a clockhouse."

     
  14. WinterForLady

    October 16, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    Wow 😀 What language is that?

     
  15. gdare

    October 16, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Grenlandic :DHave you seen my post about tongue twisters?

     
  16. WinterForLady

    October 20, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    I forgot..I'm going to take a look 🙂

     
  17. gyng

    September 9, 2010 at 9:09 pm

    I have find one more Serbian One-Note sentence…."Jos gore gore gore gore nego sto dole gore gore", which means "Still up there hills are burning worse than down there hills are burning" :sst: I have strange teachers….

     
  18. WinterForLady

    September 9, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    It's hard one :up: Thank you.

     

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