Nov 11, 2008 11:34
15 yrs ago
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Albanian term
mos um vet ma kurr
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In sentence:
"Ai me kapi per floksh me bertiti me tha kurr ma mos um vet ma kurr"
"Ai me kapi per floksh me bertiti me tha kurr ma mos um vet ma kurr"
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | don't ask me anymore / don't you ever ask me again |
Αlban SHPΑTΑ
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Proposed translations
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Αlban SHPΑTΑ
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Native in Albanian
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In the beginning was the Word
Native in: Albanian 
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don't ask me anymore / don't you ever ask me again
"Mos më vet (pyet) më kurrë."
However considering how horrible it has been written, it would be impossible for foreigners to find these words in any dictionary.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-11-11 14:35:04 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks :) I hope you are charging them by the hour :)
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-11-11 14:43:18 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks! Noted :) "Most of the time".
"By the hour" was a harmless joke, considering the amount of time you are using to decipher the handwriting and stuff.
Cheers!
However considering how horrible it has been written, it would be impossible for foreigners to find these words in any dictionary.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-11-11 14:35:04 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks :) I hope you are charging them by the hour :)
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-11-11 14:43:18 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks! Noted :) "Most of the time".
"By the hour" was a harmless joke, considering the amount of time you are using to decipher the handwriting and stuff.
Cheers!
Note from asker:
| You should see the whole document - 10 handwritten pages of this kind of stuff. I feel a sense of achievement just to have figured out as much as I have! Let's see an Albanian try to read that much of Scots or Chaucer.... |
| Just noticed on your home page - "I live in Albania for the majority of time." This should be "I live in Albania most of the time." "Majority" can only be used of something numerable/particulate (e.g. majority of the population), not of something infinitely divisible like a period of time. Still more idiomatic would be "I spend most of my time in Albania." |
| "I hope you are charging them by the hour" - who does that for written translations? It's a slow typist's charter! |
| I know Alban - actually the handwriting was okay though, mostly in capitals. It's the pseudo-Albanian that really grates. I mean I wondered if it could have been "mos m'u mbet", don't stay with me. I know, not my choice of verb, but when it's all this distorted you resign yourself to thinking anything's possible.... |
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Comment: "Thanks - that makes sense, as does the explanation.
NB if that's how they pronounce "pyet" they must all be on crack ;)"
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