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Sangfroidish wrote:Καλησπέρα σας, είμαι από το φεγγάρι. Από πόυ είστε;
Good evening, I am from the moon. Where are you all from?
Az Egyesült Államokban lakom. Akarok, hogy valahová más költözködöm.
I live in the United States. I want to move somewhere else.
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Veux-tu venir et habiter sur la lune avec moi? Il y a beaucoup d'espace en haut ici.
Do you want to come and live on the moon with me? There's lots of space up here.
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Sangfroidish wrote:
Znex wrote:συγγνώμην ἔχε! ἠγνόουν γὰρ ἀνθρώπους οἰκοῦντα ἐπὶ τῆς σελήνης.
Forgive me, I did not know that people lived on the moon. [:$]
Éduque-toi.
Educate yourself.
οὐ δύναμαι ἰδεῖν αὐτόν. δοκεῖ μοι τὸ βίντεον κατεαγέν.
I am unable to see it. It seems to me the video's broken. [:x]
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Je peux la regarder. C'est … très spécial. [:P] Mais le narrateur ne dit-il pas que les Clangers habitent une étoile, pas la lune ?
I can watch it. It's … very special. [:P] But doesn't the narrator say the Clangers live on a star, not the moon?
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Sangfroidish wrote:Veux-tu venir et habiter sur la lune avec moi? Il y a beaucoup d'espace en haut ici.
Do you want to come and live on the moon with me? There's lots of space up here.
Kedvellek, de a Hold túl sivár. Hacsak nem azt akarod, hogy engem tartasz mindig, nem veled lakhatok.
I like you, but the moon is too lonely. Unless you want to hold me all the time I can't live with you.
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你可以跟嫦娥后羿一起住!
ni3 ke3yi3 gen1 chang2e2 hou4yi4 yi1 qi3 zhu4
嫦娥后羿とも住むことができるよ!
Jōga to Kōgei to mo sumu koto ga dekiru yo!
You can live with Chang'e and Houyi!
力在公蝦米????

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Teddy wrote:
Sangfroidish wrote:Veux-tu venir et habiter sur la lune avec moi? Il y a beaucoup d'espace en haut ici.
Do you want to come and live on the moon with me? There's lots of space up here.
Kedvellek, de a Hold túl sivár. Hacsak nem azt akarod, hogy engem tartasz mindig, nem veled lakhatok.
I like you, but the moon is too lonely. Unless you want to hold me all the time I can't live with you.
[:'(] ...لماذا لا تحب القمر؟ يجب أن يحبب القمر الذه وحيد جدا
limāḏā lā tuḥibbu l-qamar? yajibu 'an yuḥbaba l-qamar al-lāḏihi waḥīd jiddan...
Why do you not love the moon? The moon, which is so very lonely, needs to be loved...
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Dormouse559 wrote:Je peux la regarder. C'est … très spécial. [:P] Mais le narrateur ne dit-il pas que les Clangers habitent une étoile, pas la lune ?
I can watch it. It's … very special. [:P] But doesn't the narrator say the Clangers live on a star, not the moon?
Ouais, mais les gens disent toujours qu'ils habitent la lune.
Yeah, but people always say they live on the moon.
Teddy wrote:
Sangfroidish wrote:Veux-tu venir et habiter sur la lune avec moi? Il y a beaucoup d'espace en haut ici.
Do you want to come and live on the moon with me? There's lots of space up here.
Kedvellek, de a Hold túl sivár. Hacsak nem azt akarod, hogy engem tartasz mindig, nem veled lakhatok.
I like you, but the moon is too lonely. Unless you want to hold me all the time I can't live with you.
Ik heb geen bezwaar tegen dat. [<3]
I have no objection to that. [<3]

Aber es ist nicht so einsam hier. Es gibt die Clangers, und Wheatley, und Prinzessin Luna...
But it's not that lonely here. There are the Clangers, and Wheatley, and Princess Luna...
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MTV lat meg ikkje stemme for Lena :(
MTV won't let me vote for Lena :(
Skógvur wrote:[:'(] ...لماذا لا تحب القمر؟ يجب أن يحبب القمر الذه وحيد جدا
limāḏā lā tuḥibbu l-qamar? yajibu 'an yuḥbaba l-qamar al-lāḏihi waḥīd jiddan...
Why do you not love the moon? The moon, which is so very lonely, needs to be loved...
Det treng kjææææææærleik.
It needs loooooove
reírítí lixa kisti o lixati reí kisti · the river god controls the fish and the fish control the river – otísil (pdf)
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Ik hou van de maan! [D:]
I love the moon! [D:]
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Sangfroidish wrote:Ik hou van de maan! [D:]
I love the moon! [D:]
Jag tycker att månen är fantastiskt!
I think the moon is great!

Också, osten är en bonus.
Also, the cheese is a bonus.
reírítí lixa kisti o lixati reí kisti · the river god controls the fish and the fish control the river – otísil (pdf)
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Fleur wrote:MTV latlèt meg ikkje stemme for Lena :(
Fleur wrote:DetHan treng kjææææææærleik.
Fleur wrote:Jag tycker att månen är fantastiskt!
Fleur wrote:Också, osten är en bonus.
You can't put 'also' at the beginning of a sentence like that in Swedish. We really don't have any one-word equivalent that you can put at the beginning like that, as far as I'm aware. You'll have to use some different construction.

Osten* är för övrigt en bonus.
För övrigt är osten* en bonus.

* Put emphasis on this word in speech.

That works well in speech if you emphasise 'osten' but in written form without any indication such as italics, it sounds more like 'the cheese is a bonus, by the way', kind of like you're explaining it somebody who wasn't aware of this fact. The best is probabaly this:

Dess( )utom är osten en bonus.

Virtually everybody would write "dessutom" together, but I personally find it ludicrous...
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Skógvur wrote:You can't put 'also' at the beginning of a sentence like that in Swedish. We really don't have any one-word equivalent that you can put at the beginning like that, as far as I'm aware. You'll have to use some different construction.

Osten* är för övrigt en bonus.
För övrigt är osten* en bonus.

* Put emphasis on this word in speech.

That works well in speech if you emphasise 'osten' but in written form without any indication such as italics, it sounds more like 'the cheese is a bonus, by the way', kind of like you're explaining it somebody who wasn't aware of this fact. The best is probabaly this:

Dess( )utom är osten en bonus.

Virtually everybody would write "dessutom" together, but I personally find it ludicrous...
Okej, tack.
Okye, thanks. :3
reírítí lixa kisti o lixati reí kisti · the river god controls the fish and the fish control the river – otísil (pdf)
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Mo fẹ́ràn láti gbé níbi ní erùpẹ̀ jù lọ.
I prefer staying here on Earth.
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Teddy wrote:jù lọ.
#yolo
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又漏
you4 lou4
It's leaking again.
力在公蝦米????

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Soy un hombre de la planeta tierra. ¡Totalmente aburrido!
I'm a human from planet Earth. How boring!
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:mex: ¡Hola! Estoy aprendiendo español.
Hello! I'm learning Spanish.

:rus: Здравствуйте! Я учу русский.
Hello! I'm learning Russian.

My Russian isn't very good, though... [:S]
I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
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Sḿtuval wrote::rus: Здравствуйте! Я учу русский.
Hello! I'm learning Russian.
Хорошо!
Good!

τοῦτο ἡ πᾶσα φρόνις μου πρὸς τὰ ῥωσικά ἐστι.
That is the whole of my knowledge regarding Russian.
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N kò gbọ́ èdè Rọ́síà rárá.
I don't know Russian at all.
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