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Old 05-12-2006, 10:00 PM   #1
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Urgent translation required -any language!

(Any internationally recognized language that is ) -particularly non-European ones.

I need to stress that a survey on a foreign language program in our school should be returned asap.

So I want translations for "ASAP", "now', "quickly" etc. in as many languages as possible. Especially non-European ones (as I already have several of those). I'm particularly interested in the sort of colloquial phrases that might not make it into a dictionary but which all people who speak that language will understand. like "chop chop!"

please
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:06 PM   #2
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Right Quick, in the Southern dialect.
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:12 PM   #3
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"rápidamente", "schnell" and "avec vitesse" exhaust my natural language inventory.
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:12 PM   #4
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in chines......
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:14 PM   #5
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,,,, and Russian.....
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:15 PM   #6
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"sutra" if Lojban counts
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:17 PM   #7
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..... and Greek.... (though that is a European language)...
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:33 PM   #8
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in a new york minute

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Old 05-12-2006, 10:34 PM   #9
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Old 05-12-2006, 10:43 PM   #10
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Hubba Hubba "Hancho " !! Thats what you tell a cabbie in Okinowa Japan to make him hurry up
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Old 05-12-2006, 11:21 PM   #11
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xian zai - now
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Old 05-13-2006, 12:08 AM   #12
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Quote:
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xian zai - now
kuai - fast

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Old 05-13-2006, 12:09 AM   #13
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pronto
bistro

pronto
bistro
fellatio


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Old 05-13-2006, 12:35 AM   #14
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Hubba Hubba "Hancho " !! Thats what you tell a cabbie in Okinowa Japan to make him hurry up

ta. But is it what you also tell a parent in Ann Arbor?
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Old 05-13-2006, 12:49 AM   #15
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