Domènec

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> <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com> writes

>>food as souvenirs, the America's Cup harbour.
> We have a company boat with the name of the firm on the sails and
> everything. The MD's son has graciously volunteered to sail it all
> round the world. Nice of him to take an interest in the family firm
> innit?

I think I could be adopted.

> Which is good news, local food is always a treat and much superior to
> other stuff. Take Tiptree Strawberries and an example.

Er... Tiptree Strawberries, of course!
(what he says?)

>>Useful Valencian slang:
> So what is "my hovercraft is full of eels"?

http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
Catalan: "El meu aerolliscador està ple d'anguiles"

(top tip: some Valencians will insist in their language as a different
language)
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cat

Des

"Dom?nec" <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>Useful Valencian slang:
>> So what is "my hovercraft is full of eels"?
>
> http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
> Catalan: "El meu aerolliscador est? ple d'anguiles"

Ah, it's the same word as in French then. Do you know what, 'il y a
anguille sous roche!' means?

D.
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steve auvache

In article <5g7209F3dvaadU1@mid.individual.net>, Domènec
<domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com> writes
>"steve auvache" <dont_spam@thecow.me.uk> escribió en el mensaje
>>>Useful Valencian slang:
>> So what is "my hovercraft is full of eels"?
>
>http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
>Catalan: "El meu aerolliscador està ple d'anguiles"

Ta.

>
>(top tip: some Valencians will insist in their language as a different
>language)
>http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cat

fukkem, if they can't speak English I'll shout at them.


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Domènec

"Des" <des@yahoo.fr> escribió en el mensaje
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> "Dom?nec" <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>Useful Valencian slang:
>>> So what is "my hovercraft is full of eels"?
>> http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
>> Catalan: "El meu aerolliscador est? ple d'anguiles"
> Ah, it's the same word as in French then. Do you know what, 'il y a
> anguille sous roche!' means?

<googles>

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d'expressions_au_sens_figur%C3%A9

Yes!

Switters

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:47:10 GMT, "Domènec" <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com>
allegedly wrote:

> (top tip: some Valencians will insist in their language as a different
> language)

heh, I had a discussion with a waiter about this. He basically said it
was the same language, just spoken differently like English is in the
North and South of the UK.

Domènec

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> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:47:10 GMT, "Domènec" <domenec.sos.valles@gmail.com>

>> (top tip: some Valencians will insist in their language as a different
>> language)
> heh, I had a discussion with a waiter about this. He basically said it
> was the same language, just spoken differently like English is in the
> North and South of the UK.

Let's say they speak as western Catalan (Lleida and southern Tarragona)
speakers do.