Níl an leathanach atá uait anseo.

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:07 pm

Tried to open http://www.ibiblio.org/fiddlers/sirrog.htm, which purported to be an article about the history of the Sir Roger de Coverly, a slip jig which is played in Contra dancing.
Instead I got a 404 FILE NOT FOUND, nothing unusual about that but it also showed about 100 translations of "Your page isin't here," in languages ranging from low German to Brazillian (São Paulo slang).
Good yuks!
Sir Roger's a great tune, too. Dickens mentions it in a Christmas Carol.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:14 pm

Yeah, I like the Sir Roger de Coverley, and I've danced it too, under the direction of Hugh Rippon, the mainstay caller at the Haddenham Ceilidh. According to him, it's the dance from which the "Strip the Willow" was derived, and of course, the Willow Tree, the Drops of Brandy and all of those.
I have a three part version from http://wwwthesession.org
and in Jamie Knowles' book "A Northern Lass" there is an EIGHT part version called "The Malt Man Comes on Monday". (I haven't managed to get that one off yet.)

Shame about your website.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:15 pm

Haaarr, Lubber! I've sailed yon seas with toil and trial, and yet I cannot find ye file! -- Pirate

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0011100100111101010100001000000100011001001111010101010100111001000100 -- binary

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:22 pm

Chrisoff should be pleased: it has Glaswegian, Doric and Ulster Scots!

I was amazed that I understood the Quebecois, but I thought the Lancastrian should have been "gat", not "geet". Any Lancastrians here? Do I hear the ghost of Mr Formby?

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm

Da page no stay! -- Hawaiian Creole

Hawaiian Creole

TheSpoonMan · Post by **TheSpoonMan** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:45 pm

Denny wrote:
Da page no stay! -- Hawaiian Creole
Hawaiian Creole

A creole's the next level up from a pidgin, whcih is basically a simplified version of two languages, I guess in this case Hawaiian and English. They start off used for trade and such, between two cultures, generally.

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:25 pm

All the Hawaiians I knew in school referred to it as "pidgin."

Redwolf

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:30 pm

Hrmm, had to look up "binary translator" and sure 'nuff http://www.adcott.net/binary/.

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flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:57 am

Ive just added "Hagy Pagy" and "SMS kidspeak" to it!

The Sporting Pitchfork · Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:44 pm

Technically speaking <puts on linguist hat>, a pidgin is a specialized form of intermediary language of minimal grammatical rules and vocabulary developed primarily for the use of trade. If the pidgin is transmitted to future generations as a first language, it becomes a creole. However, the creole used by some Hawaiians is still referred to by them as "pidgin" and Tok Pisin (="talk pidgin"), one of the official languages of Papua New Guinea also started off as a pidgin but is now a creole.</puts on linguist hat>

That webpage is pretty funny...Some of the translations seem pretty wayward (Scottish Gaelic "Chan eil duilleag an seo, a charaid"="No page here, friend"), but very funny all the same. I'll have to check with my German and Brazillian friends about some of those...

Kevin L. Rietmann · Post by **Kevin L. Rietmann** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:35 pm

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scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:14 pm

This one's my favorite:

ibiblio wrote:Lawrd tunderin jesus bye it tidin dere. -- Newfinease (Canadian dialect)

What, please, is "Hagy Pagy?" I have a sinking feeling the answer is going to make me feel very old.

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:02 pm

"hagy pagy" as in rhymes with "vaguely" but without the "L"!
If im not mistaken i think its a Lewis Carrol invention. Myself and a few friends always used it to each other whenever we didnt want others to understand us!

Basically you place an "age" (or phonetically its an "ay-g" or "egg" if you are texan!!) before every vowel, wether the vowel is pronounced or not! The trick is not to use letters in words or parts of words that sound vowelly but arent! example "sorry" would be "s-ag-orry" not "s-ag-orr-ag-y" -!!! geddit!!

One time a few years ago myself and a few friends were in the middle of rolling ..erm... some "herbal" cigarrettes when a Garda walked towards us. I said to my friend Tom "W-ag-atch ag-o-agut T-ag-om, th-ag-er-ag-e ag-is ag-a p-ag-ig c-ag-om-ag-ing t-ag-ow-ag-ards ag-us!"
... To which the Garda replied when he got up to us "actually im not a pig, im a member of the Garda Siochana!"!
Needless to say it completely blew us away!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:39 pm

Sounds like a varation of "pig latin", where "ay" was added to the end of every word or syllable.

djm

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