so i was doing my thing at work, and all of a sudden, i was required to come up with a dhivehi word for "GOTCHA!"
the first thing that came to my mind, as u can image , was "WTF???"
so i used all sorts of research techniques, including asking around what was an appropriate ENGLISH word for "aaaaiy" - that sound we make, to express ridicule (and many other emotions). i thought this would somehow point me in the right direction...
but i was wrong...
the realisation was harsh! there is no appropriate dhivehi word for "gotcha"...not one that would convey the meaning of the english word with its original flair...
i thought to myself, "what a shame..."
16 comments:
exactly! what a shame!
But umm your work sounds pretty boring to me. Are you translating English to Dhivehi or something like that? If so good luck
*faint*
PS: I hate dhivehi [as a subject]
you can ask someone like soadhube to make a word for "gotcha!"
hehe..
and if u are doing what sparky thinks you are doing.. then ill also say "best of luck!!!"
taatz
we dun have to translate from word to word ennu wen we are translating so dun wry abt that particular word! noonee liyevidhaane.."landeh dhevuneethaaaaaa??" =p
-spark of silence; .mini-
no, i'm not a translator. and yeah, it would be a friggin`boring job to do..!
-shweeeeet!-
thanx, :D
XS, get soadhube and get him to sneeze in a funny way. that wud be "gotcha".
keep on blogging! u sound like an interesting enuf person.
-vicinity of obscenety-
thanx for the tip, and thanx :D
aan ekkala shweeet.. tut tut
do we really need the word gotcha in our dhivehi language. is there an lesser or equivalent of the word in dhivehi?
hehe nice post.. gotcha dho.. yea damn i couldt get any word that comes up with gotcha.. i mean dhivehi..
-bandey-
errrrm.......NO.
thanx for commenting :D
-lucifer-
thanx
ahh the many challenges of our mother tongue.. as for the words soadhube comes up with..who wants to use them.. they are so stuffy and uptight..I simply cannot grasp any of the new words.. ( not that i know many)
As for gotcha..I cant think of one.. 'kobaa heevejey' in a very hyper excited totally shocking tone? !!
There are instances when english fails too...iv tried to think of one word that can be used as 'thui'
that kept me wondering to myself for a while you know...and ive got all my neurones in knots now...hehehe...interesting post you got there...keep blogging...nice post..:)
find a word in english to rpresent "inginjeyyyyy" a word commonly used by wana be punks when they boast or get angry or retort.
simply break the words
got= eboi = libije
cha= a sound like the one which occurs when a kettle full of water drops to concrete. kekeke
my translation comes with the help of a teacher who ones taught a kid how to write RESTAURANT = REST-OR-RENT
anyways when u combine the words it comes
EBOICHA or libijecha
hahha i agree with vincinity of obscenity lol
kekeke and zigmenot that was funny!
wish u luck..
wat can we say dhivehi words are poor hama
i like zingy's eboicha. it has styyyle. u oughta consider using it.
great blog btw
thanx zing!!...real innovative, i must say...kudos!
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