What's looking good in September 2016

[zigs]

@zigs said: Brilliant word "zorrillo"
That's going in my mental book of daft things to know in other languages along with "ich bin ein fussboden" (I am a floorboard) and "emmer" (africaans for bucket)

I don't know why i cannot seem to master the art of the quote. "Fussboden" is hilarious and that is going in my mental book. It sounds like it should mean something very different than "floor board". The next time i am frustrated with someone it will be "You, you, you fussboden!" yeah, they won't forget that. I'll bet you don't have any Huichol words in your "mental book of daft"...i'll see if i can find a good one for you, but it probably won't be as good as "Fussboden"

Only Huichol word I know is Peyote

la piscina está llena de cadáveres

 

[DeborahJane]

I haven't got a clue DeborahJane, sorry! I'll find out for you. I have just relocated to Scotland (two weeks) from the Isle of Man and this plant is in my temporary garden.

Thanks Sheal. Good luck with your new move, hope you settle in soon.

 

[DeborahJane]

I've got one in my garden and can't for the life of me remember the name! It'll come to me...

Thanks, no pressure, just curious.

 

[DeborahJane]

Finnish for main switch, don't want the lights going out

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Thanks Zigs. I see the light now. Aren't fuschias amazing little flowers. I have some very pretty ones but can't master keeping the bushes, they grow all leggy and spindly. Mind you I wish I could do that to myself.

 

[Beverly]

@zigs how about "no pisar el cesped" (don't walk on the grass).

"la piscina está llena de cadáveres" means the swimming pool is full of dead bodies. Is this what you mean to say?

"Por encima de mi cadaver" means over my dead body

 

[DeborahJane]

@zigs how about "no pisar el cesped" (don't walk on the grass).

"la piscina está llena de cadáveres" means the swimming pool is full of dead bodies. Is this what you mean to say?

"Por encima de mi cadaver" means over my dead body

Sounds like a good name for a horror movie

 

[zigs]

@zigs how about "no pisar el cesped" (don't walk on the grass).

"la piscina está llena de cadáveres" means the swimming pool is full of dead bodies. Is this what you mean to say?

Yep, it was from an old Mike Harding book of useful phrases to use abroad, also had the Spanish for "where can I put these toenail clippings, but I've forgotten that