{"id":390,"date":"2007-05-21T17:32:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/no-elephants\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T16:32:54","slug":"no-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Elephants are not permitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and useful site for you that I came across the other day: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartphrase.com\/\">SmartPhrase<\/a>. It contains phrasebooks for Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, though unfortunately there are no audio recordings.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartphrase.com\/cgi-bin\/randomphrase.cgi?spanish&#038;humorous&#038;normal\">random phrase generator<\/a> which gives you either serious or humerous phrases in a variety of languages.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples of the humorous phrases:<\/p>\n<p>Disc\u00falpame \u00bfte importa si te miro un rato? Quiero recordar tu cara en mis sue\u00f1os.<br \/>\n<em>Excuse me, do you mind if I stare at you for a minute? I want to remember your face for my dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Da-me los cables puente de bater\u00eda, los pollos se han escapados.<br \/>\n<em>Hand me the jump leads, the chickens have escaped.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr so einen kleinen Mann hast Du aber sehr grosse Nasenl\u00f6cher!<br \/>\n<em>You have very large nostrils for such a small gentleman.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Keine Elephanten in der Bar nach 8 Uhr!<br \/>\n<em>Elephants are not permitted in the bar after eight o&#8217;clock.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Se devi tagliarti le unghie dei piedi, vai via dalla cucina, per favore.<br \/>\n<em>If you must clip your toenails now, kindly leave the kitchen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u039f \u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03bf\u03c2 \u03b5\u03c0\u03b9\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 \u03bd\u03b1 \u03b8\u03b3\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c3\u03bf\u03b3\u03bc\u03b5 \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 \u03ba\u03bf\u03c0\u03b5\u03bb\u03b1 \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u03b9\u03c9\u03c2 \u03b8\u03b1 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c8\u03b5\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf \u03c7\u03c9\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf.<br \/>\n<em>The dragon insists we sacrifice a maiden otherwise he will burn the village to the ground.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dat is de derde keer deze week dat \u00e9\u00e9n van de patienten spontaan is gaan uitbarsten.<br \/>\n<em>That is the third time this week that one of the patients has spontaneously combusted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A cama do meu marido est\u00e1 cheia de areia preta. Porqu\u00ea?<br \/>\n<em>My husband&#8217;s bed is full of black sand. Why?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting and useful site for you that I came across the other day: SmartPhrase. It contains phrasebooks for Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, though unfortunately there are no audio recordings. There is also a random phrase generator which gives you either serious or humerous phrases in a variety of languages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}