For those of you who know any form of sign language, I have a question. I saw someone sign something earlier, and to me it looked like the sign for "I love you," but then she flipped her index and pinky fingers forward. It was made with her right hand, if that changes anything ( Read more... )

I'm trying to remember this vague, nebulous discussion that I either read somewhere or had in class after we read something about the concept of sin in society, and how cultures that don't have that concept are fundamentally different from those who do. There was something in there about how when you offend your neighbor, that's a matter for the ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a website that will show chinese characters for a phrase ( Read more... )

There's this non-English song I've been trying to find for a while. I don't know what language it's in (might have been Hindi, or something Middle-Eastern possibly). I do know that it was sung by a woman with a soft-ish voice and it's got a fairly fast beat, and the part that I recall the most clearly sounded sort of like this: "A mistanai, ha ei- ( Read more... )

Alright, if anyone can help me out with this, I'll really appreciate it. I'm basically looking for the word or phrase that means that you think whatever issue you're facing in your life is the worse possible scenerio, until something worse happens, and then you think THAT is the worst, and on and on and on. I heard it once before, but I can't ( Read more... )

I remember Dave Barry, in some work of his, talking about language, and giving examples of two funny phrases, culminating in 'They gave her a whole nother piece'. I think the context was something about his sister found half a rat in her pie or something (or that may be Monty Python there, actually) so they gave her 'a whole nother piece' but i ( Read more... )

Okay, they play movies in the lounge area of my department, and this one caught my attention today ( Read more... )

Used to watch it when I was in Saudi Arabia. Was a show about a group of orange alien creatures (possibly robots) that had little black ovals around their eyes like a raccoon's face. The robots had a ship that I think they were trying to repair and were friends with an earthling boy ( Read more... )

I would like to know how to say "Happy Birthday" in as many languages as possible. I don't care if it is a fake language, dead language, or sign language. If you know how to say "Happy Birthday" in a language other than English, post here.

Thanks in advance!

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