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Off topic: Eurovision 2012 - What do you think of your country's entry?
Thread poster: Ty Kendall
Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 05:51 Hebrew to English
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@Suzan
May 29, 2012
Moldova definitely won the award for best "Globish" of the night there!
Here are some of my favourite gems:
Borderline Racism from Romania: "Come here, my sweet chocolate boy"
Russia's use of adjectives to modify verbs (who needs adverbs eh): "We are dancing soulful, so soulful!"
Not soulfully then.
and apparently is Russia, cooking is a more extravagent a... See more
Moldova definitely won the award for best "Globish" of the night there!
Here are some of my favourite gems:
Borderline Racism from Romania: "Come here, my sweet chocolate boy"
Russia's use of adjectives to modify verbs (who needs adverbs eh): "We are dancing soulful, so soulful!"
Not soulfully then.
and apparently is Russia, cooking is a more extravagent affair: "The dough is rising joyously" (although they nailed the adverb there!).
And finally we have Turkey: "Hop on to my ship baby....My ship is made of hope". No offence, but I'm not sure I'd be too keen to board a ship made of hope - good chance of drowning I'd have thought. ▲ Collapse
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Suzan Hamer Netherlands Local time: 06:51 English + ...
That's right. Ty.
May 29, 2012
I forgot the joyously rising bread. Boom boom.
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