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August 8, 2005

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Emmanuelle, who is French, but who is married to someone from Martinique (and speaks the French Creole of that Island) very kindly supplied some sentences I may well be able to use in Queen of Swords.

So now my question is: what other languages (or varieties of languages) do y'all speak fluently? And, can I ask you questions about those languages?

To get this off to an entertaining start (and to see if it would work) a few sentences that probably require an idiomatic translation. By idiomatic I mean: you can change the word order or use an expression that gets across the idea. So go on, show me what you've got. Please.

1. Don't look at me, I had nothing to do with it.

In northern Vorarlberg Alemannic (a variety of Swiss German) this would be something like: was luagascht? I hae mit deam doch nuentz z'tuond.

2. That boy is dumb as a post.