DMark
February 14, 2005, 8:01pm
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How to say “I love you” in 24 languages…
English
“I Love You”
Spanish
“Te Amo”
French
“Je T’aime”
German
“lch Liebe Dich”
Japanese
“Ai Shite Imasu”
Italian
“Ti Amo”
Chinese
“Wo Ai Ni”
Swedish
“Jag Alskar Dig”
And in Alabama , Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and in parts of Florida:
“Nice Ass. Get in the truck.”
Arabic:
aHbu ki (to a female)
aHbu ka (to a male)
Scotland:
Brace yourself, Molly!
Esperanto:
‘Mi amas vin’. (or ‘Mi vin amas’ or ‘Vin mi amas’ or ‘Amas vin mi’… word order is quite flexible, being compensated for by …other features of the language.)
DMark
February 14, 2005, 8:36pm
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Not sure. Most Chinese woman I meet usually say, “Wo am I.”
Lockz:
Cantonese or Mandarin?
I believe it is Mandarin.
rinni
February 15, 2005, 9:48pm
9
Serbo-Croatian:
Volim te
(I think… correct me if I’m wrong.)
Kyla
February 16, 2005, 2:25am
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A man to a woman:
Ani ohev otach.
A man to a man:
Ani ohev otcha.
A woman to a man:
Ani ohevet otcha.
A woman to a woman:
Ani ohevet otach.
The “ch” sound is representative of the guttural sound in “Chanukkah” or “challah”.
Yiddish:
Ich hob far dich lib
Latin:
Amo te
Afrikaans:
Ek het jou lief.
Which leads to the joke: What did Adam say to Eve? Ek het jou leaf
Is there any language which does not have a term for love?
I’d have said Klingon, but obviously DeVena has proven otherwise.
DMARK:
And in Alabama , Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Louisiana, West Virginia, Kentucky and in parts of Florida:
“Nice Ass. Get in the truck.”
I often dream of being romanticized this way.