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RunRev is translating livecode, but it's dangerous... for example:

I must be very stupid indeed, but I don't understand the joke. The fact that English speakers call what most other
people call "ananas" "pineapple" is not a joke and I cannot see anymore relevance to Livecode than the fact that
oval, purple fruits are called "eggplant", "aubergine" and "brinjal" in various places where they speak English.

Nice joke MaxV! ))
(I will never use any software translated in my native language, ever!)

richmond62 wrote:...but I don't understand the joke.

You don't have to, Richmond

I'm sure this is a non-native-english-speaker thingie...

An, qhat, Klaus wid mak thon jalouse Inglis is ma mither leid?

It mun be, forbye, as ma dam is sudron bred, aiblins her faither is fae Rothesay,
but ma faither an mysel war fae Alba, an Ah didnae ken sudron til Ah flichtit there
eftir ma erst twa towmonds.

English is NOT my mother tongue.

Chan eil.
I always smile when I see you drop into the vernacular

Pine.apple has always seemed a strange word to me. Neither pine nor apple.
Egg.plant as well, but at least it qualifies as a plant.

I suppose portmanteux don't necessarily have to make literal sense.

Yeah, well, this side of the pond we don't have 'eggplants' we have 'aubergines':

now whether pinching a word from French or cooking up one's own word is
preferable is another thing.

Certainly, I had never seen a white, spherical aubergine until I went to the States:
over here they are like that picture I posted earlier (complete with Livecode logo . . . naturally).

In the United Arab Emirates most of the brinjals [= eggplant = aubergine] were long, thin and green.

Captain Marryat, in a novel he wrote early on in the 19th century used the word 'brinjal' when his castaways found
eggplants growing on a Pacific island.

mwieder wrote:Pine.apple has always seemed a strange word to me. Neither pine nor apple.
Egg.plant as well, but at least it qualifies as a plant.

Must think visually. Pineapples have a skin that resembles a pine cone. It's a fruit like an apple. Sort of.

Eggplants are vaguely egg-shaped. Sort of.

Sorry, that's the best I can do.

richmond62 wrote:An, qhat, Klaus wid mak thon jalouse Inglis is ma mither leid?

It mun be, forbye, as ma dam is sudron bred, aiblins her faither is fae Rothesay,
but ma faither an mysel war fae Alba, an Ah didnae ken sudron til Ah flichtit there
eftir ma erst twa towmonds.

English is NOT my mother tongue.

Anyway, if I ever find out what that means... OH BOY!

Although I actually "get" line 1!

Maybe I'll have a go at this and give you a laugh Klausimausi but I think it will be something like

Aber doch müß ich mal leider eingestehen, da meine Mutter im Süd geboren worden ist*, obwohl ihr Vater aus Rothersay kommt. Na ja, doch kommen mein Vater und ich aus Alba, und sprach gar keine südliche Sprache**, bis das ich dort leben gegangen bin, nach die erste Paar Jahre.

*wie "südlicher als dem Weißwurstäquator" sozusagen
**wie Oberdeutsch sozusagen

"sudron" is anither vocable fae Ingland.

Aye, I was trying to get a reference to the sort of north-south divide that implied, with the references to Hoch vs Oberdeutsch and the Weißwurstäquator, since they don't have such a national divide in Germany. Just a silly idea I had as I came across this old thread when I was browsing earlier.

My older son, having spent a year in Berlin, is now in his second year im Bayern, and is just getting round
Bayerische Mundart properly.