Thursday, February 26, 2009

Fun Phrases in Portuguese

Onde posso eu comprar os dentes de madeira?
Where may I buy wooden teeth?

Meu tio comeu um carneiro.
My uncle has eaten a sheep.

Let' visita de s uma prostituta
Let's visit a prostitute.

Para o divertimento, nós amarramos um anão a um avião pequeno.
For fun, we tie a dwarf to a small aircraft.

Meu gado está explodindo
My cattle are exploding.

Spain cheira engraçado.
Spain smells funny.

via: takineko

4 comments:

Keeper said...

Looks like an automated translator was used for at least some of that. The way it had no idea what to do with the contraction "let's" is a dead giveaway.

I can't help but recall the Freakazoid bit you guys did:

And now...
Et maintenant...
Y hora...
Und jetzt...

Back to our show!
Et voici mon ami Gilles.
Mi mosca es muy fea.
Es gibt Hachenfleisch in mein(en) Hosen!

Have you seen the web page that seeks to present the phrase "Oh my god, there's an axe in my head!" in every known language?

Today, people would call that a "meme", and it's gotta be one of the oldest.

JP Mac said...

Valerie started this on Facebook, placing it before Paul and I to see what we'd come up with, as well as her own offering.

Are you a Facebook-type fellow?

takineko said...

Yes Keep, it's Babel Fish.

That "Axe in my head" site reminded me that I once wanted to learn to say "Please remove the cheese log from my navel" in every language. I think I even made a whole post full of Babel Fish translations for the sentence in my journal when I first found the site.

Keeper said...

Ahh... No, I haven't started Facebook yet. I did just get one of those invites from a ragtime composer I know... so maybe I will sometime soon.

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