# Hesitant in Four Languages **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005 "2002-12-26T19:01:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kunoichi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4da419/32.png) [@kunoichi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kunoichi)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/61 "2003-01-01T06:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiff \* > \*\*En anglais, je puet dire une phrase seulement: > > “My hovercraft is full of eels.” > > Je ne comprend pas bien cette phrase, mais je crois qu’elle veut dire: “Mon oncle est besoin d’une praline” ou quelque chose comme ca. \*\* hahaha c’est tres amusant ca 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/62 "2003-01-01T07:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\*Chinese for “you are a monkeyface”, as near as I can figure: > _Nee shhr hou-tz lee-enn!_ \*\* In pinyin: _Ni shi houzi lian._ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragon Phoenix \* > \*\*\*Needuh pee hun tcho, woduh pee hun siang \* > It means your fart stinks, mine smells very nice… \*\* In pinyin: \*Ni de pi hen chou, Wo de pi hen xiang. \* Mine? _Ni muqin you hen da bizi._ - Your Mum has a big nose. (knee moo-chin yo hen da bee-zz.) That’s what we used to use as an insult at school (we figured it out ourselves). I could probably think up a more creative one now, but eh. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/63 "2003-01-01T17:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Blue Curls \* > \*\*In pinyin: _Ni shi houzi lian._ > > In pinyin: \*Ni de pi hen chou, Wo de pi hen xiang. \* > > Mine? > _Ni muqin you hen da bizi._ - Your Mum has a big nose. > (knee moo-chin yo hen da bee-zz.) > > That’s what we used to use as an insult at school (we figured it out ourselves). I could probably think up a more creative one now, but eh. \*\* Ni mama gen gonggong qiche hen xiang . . . meitian meitian ta shen shang you nansheng shanglai shangqu. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/64 "2003-01-01T17:26:04Z")
On further consideration, I should change that to: Ni mama de shenti gen gongche hen xiang . . . yizhi you nansheng shanglai shangqu. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/65 "2003-01-01T20:49:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiff \* > \*\*En anglais, je puet dire une phrase seulement: > > “My hovercraft is full of eels.” > > Je ne comprend pas bien cette phrase, mais je crois qu’elle veut dire: “Mon oncle est besoin d’une praline” ou quelque chose comme ca. \*\* Of course, in correct French that would be: “_mon oncle **a** besoin d’une praline_”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/66 "2003-01-02T13:43:51Z")
You’re so right, **Coldfire**. I got my idioms mixed up. My head must have been full of eels that day. Merci. ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/67 "2003-01-02T15:05:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by SwimmingRiddles \* > \*\* > Portugese: Voce est vice fude gordo bastardo. > Translation: You are a goat F_&#$ing fat bastard. > \*\* Better would be: “Você é um cabra fudendo, gordo, filho da puta.” Bastardo isn’t really used in Portuguese. The (in my opinion) much better phrase ‘son of a whore’ is used for the same thing. I think my favorite is “Quando volta, tras bolo!” (When come back, bring pie!) ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/68 "2003-01-02T16:08:01Z")
The only sentence I know in Japanese is “Koko-no-toki mainichi nomimashita.” (When I was in high school, I drank every day). With horrible pronunciation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/69 "2003-01-05T23:09:48Z")
Russian proverb from a dictionary: kazhdy drochit kak on khochet It means “everyone does things by the way he used to” Literal translation: “everyone masturbates by the way he likes” If you want, though, you can ask me and I’ll translate it (I know enough myself–just couldn’t think of anything really funny). Oh here’s a common phrase: Oo teba slovesniy panos. The literal meaning is that you have diarrhea of the mouth, but it is commonly used to express exasperation with someone who just can’t shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Eastern\_Europa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@Eastern\_Europa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eastern_Europa)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/70 "2003-01-05T23:54:51Z")
A high-school friend of mine who took Latin came up with a useless phrase that she then taught to us (possibly mangled, because I speak no Latin (and, yes, less Greek)): Multum magnum urnae in via ludebant. (“Many large water pots are playing in the street.”) The joke was, I think, that her textbook was obsessed with examples regarding water pots and playing in the street, so eventually she just combined them. ---
**Author:** ![Burnt\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/71 "2003-01-11T06:24:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\*On further consideration, I should change that to: > > Ni mama de shenti gen gongche hen xiang . . . yizhi you nansheng shanglai shangqu. \*\* Ohh, it’s too hard to figure out without tones! “Your Mum’s body and public buses smell nice… (she) always has schoolboys come up (and) go up??” Help me out here! 😕 (I’m only learning :o ) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005/72 "2003-01-11T13:23:24Z")
Yo mama’s like a bus . . . guys gettin’ on and off her all day. Word by word: your mother’s body with bus very alike . . . continually have males get on get off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hesitant-in-four-languages/145005.md?page=3)