 Poster: A snowHead
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What phrases in a non-english language can you come up with (either skiing or non-skiing related) that could be useful when out on the pistes this winter?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Deux serieux s'il vous plait
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Où est la neige?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Always apologise in French.
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(Je suis désolé)
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| T-Dub wrote: |
| Always apologise in French. |
Even in Italy and Austria?
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Ever noticed how easy it is to speak dutch after a couple of pints? You go to the bar, catch the barman's eye and "Two beers please" comes out as "Do beeersh pleesh"...
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Babelfish is useful in translating - up to a point anyway - babelfish
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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This is my aunt's pen.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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If I'm in Germany and trying to find out someone's name, if their English is poor I try;
"Vot eez yoor name?"
Works for me.
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"Tu resemble un boite aux lettres"  or "Je suis TRES TRES TRES desolee" - cue icy glare from a 60 year old francais grand-mere after you accidently stood on her ski in a chair lift queue....
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You know it makes sense.
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Bonjour! (plus smile). Works wonders. Never, ever, march into a French bar and order your drinks without it (unless it's a Meribel bar staffed by gap year muppets who haven't learnt the French for beer yet).
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Tres bien cuit. the only way to get meat cooked in a French mountain restaurant. Ignore the glares from behind the counter 
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Poster: A snowHead
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" Un Demi", might cut the price of your beer in half too. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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CP, Even in Italy and Austria?
Especially in Italy and Austria.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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"Tres bien cuit", could be the perfect description of how many French picture the Brit on holiday, pint glass in hand
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PG,
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"Tres bien cuit", could be the perfect description of how many French picture the Brit on holiday, pint glass in hand
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Agreed, do you have a better phrase for getting meat cooked through for me pl ?. I really hate it with raw bits. I was served a beefburger in the Peisey self service and it was completely raw inside 
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"What COLOR is that run?"
Zee, not Zed
Restroom, not toilet.
After that, it's plain sailing! 
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| Restroom, not toilet. |
Why do some countries use the term restroom rather than a less euphemistic word? Is it some sort of racial lazyness whereby they need to go and have snooze in private every so often? By contrast we British are active and so use the smallest room for its proper purpose and get out and get going again as quickly as possible.
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After looking after our transatlantic visitors for the last 30+ years. I still want to get a photograph out when they ask for a 'Pitcher of Worter' to go with their meal. "Sorry we don't have a picture of water will a photo do?" 
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Adrian, no, we go to the "bathroom"...
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Our night class teacher told us there's no word in the Italian language for "hangover". According to her (she's Sicilian) , only British people get hangovers as they they drink too much! Can anyone shed light on if there is such a word in Italian?
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Useful things to say in an Austrian Resort:
"Oan Jagatee bittschön" : "One pot of hot alcohol please"
"Herrgottsacra steigst jetzt von meim schi oba?" : "Goddamnit, are you going to get off my skis now" (helps with lift queue problems)
"Schau doch wo das't hinfährst, Arschloch" : "Look where you're going, asshole"
"Zwa Stamperl Schnapps und zwa Weissbier ah no bittschön" : "Two shorts (schnapps) and a couple of beers as well please"
"Wenn Dummheit schmerzhaft war, dann wurds't du aber ständig schreia" : "If stupidity was painful then you would scream constantly"
"Habe die Ehre" : "The honour is entirely mine"
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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snowbunny, très bien cuit should do the trick, though there's never any guarantee the message will get through!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Wear The Fox Hat wrote: |
| Adrian, no, we go to the "bathroom"... |
Sometimes true, but surely only when there is actually a bath in the room, in which case the word "bathroom" is quite valid. Do "restrooms" have special comfy thrones where snoozing is easy, or just the normal hard wood or plastic seats?
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You know it makes sense.
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Maybe it refers to a large percentage of people in that country needing to sit at the toilet for long periods, for one reason or another...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Adrian, All words for the room in which we excrete are euphemisms. Any that were not would be picked off by the net nanny.
For example, lavatory is from the Latin lavabo meaning I wash. Toilet also means washing. As for WC.....
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Poster: A snowHead
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Chris Bish, OK so what about the word 'loo' then?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Without inside knowledge, WC sounds like it could refer to a cupboard with your boiler in...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I was taught that you only need two phrases in any foreign language. The first is the translation for "How much?". The second is "it's my friend who's paying."
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Ian - I always thought Tommy had the word named after him, it sounds like you think it was the other way around
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| kuwait_ian wrote: |
| Isn't WC short for Water Closet. |
Once charmingly referred to by the French (don't hear it much these days) as les "Waters" (pronounced 'Wattair')...
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| Oo son lay wattair seal voo play? |
But definitely better to stick to:
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| Oo son lay Vay Say seal voo play? |
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| Oo son lay twalett seal voo play? |
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However if you fail to get your message across with the above, you may have to resort to:
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Ooo la la ! jay fay peepee don ma queue lot!
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geetee, Most likely etymology for loo is from "gardez! l'eau!" Or watch out for the water! I rest my case. Euphemism is the only possibilty when seeing a man about a dog.
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az én -m légpárnás hajó van teli -ból angolnák
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