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Ty Kendall
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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
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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.
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Suzan Hamer
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That's right. Ty. May 29, 2012

I forgot the joyously rising bread. Boom boom.

 
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