BABEL!

Another thing i love learning from travel, is slang in many languages. Especially exclamations! Zut Alors! Mamma Mia! Aye oh! Dios Mio! Oh my gawd! Fun little interjections in any country. These simple things amuse me. And then the ever so smutty...Vaffancoulo! (which is not how you spell it) Basically...you can stick it where the sun dont shine in Italian....Merde! Che Cazzo Fai! Smut is even more fun when no one can understand it :) Also....apparently the word "fanny" does not mean what you think it means in the UK...i settled this with brit over a game of rock paper scissors...or...Shin tao, Jin to, pu! Roh Sham bo! I love this game.....

chocolate is a good word to know in every lanuage as well as "coffee" and "water" because really the three are of equal nutritional importance, Hello and thank you are useful as well. And for some reason I always seem to lean the word butterfly in a ton of languages and really love it.

Butterfly
Farfalle
Mariposa
Woo Dieh
Papillion

Chocolate
Chao ke Li
Cioccolato
chocolat
chocolate (with an accent)

Ni Hao! Shei Shei
Hello! Thank you
Bonjour! Merci
Ciao! grazie
Hola! gracias
Habari! Asante.

Coffee
Cafe( win several differnt accents dependant on where you are)
ka fei
kaffea

some things translate. Glad to know a slightly psychotropic bean in one of them.

someone must have gotten together at the primitive UN or something and made sure the word for butterfly was beautiful in every language. I dont know what im talking about...

Its also fun to know drinking expressions...

Cheers! ( for most people i know)
Salute! (for josh and lou)
Salud! ( for andrew)
Gan Bei! ( chug it.. basically..for me)
Prost! (for my german friends)
Okole Maluna! ( for morgan )

i love language. i seriousl love this stuff. ugh...pour on the guilt now...continuing to try to make a decision....

Anyways...

Bye!
Ciao Ciao! ci vediamo! ( my favorite)
Au revoir!
A hui huo! aloha!
Hasta luego!
ZiaJian!
Sayonara!
kwa heri!

Ti Amo
Te amo
Je t'aime
Wo ai ni
Ninapenda wewe
Ma armastind sind
Mi amas vin
I love you

I love you I love I love you guys. F'real.

feel free to add to this....I love collecting, you can accomplish a lot in many places by committing to memory just a few quick words and addresses. If anyone speaks Gaelic or Arabic or Esperanto or Cherokee...those would be ideal :)

if you want to have your brain massaged :

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121140347.htm

more later Im sure.

survival survival!

j