F1 From worldly-wise Flóvin S. Olsen:

"In Faroese, it's

Á Gud! Eg havi eina øks í høvdinum! (oh god, I have an axe in my head)

Á Gud! Ta� er ein øks í høvdinum hjá mær! (oh god, there is an axe in my head)

And, Faroese is the language spoken on the Faroesk, small group of islands in the north atlantic. Around 45000 inhabitants."

F2 Kudos to jari [2004 Apr 22], Aleksi S. and paavo.h [both 2004 Jun 16] and the many others who have insisted upon the alpha-umlauts.

F3 A fellow named Lies submitted this one [2004 Apr 23], but we wonder if "Godverdoeme" really means "Oh my god" to the Flemish, or if it's just Lies.

F4 Thanks to Chris Protopapas of New York. [2004 Jun 19]

F5 Submitted by the otherwise thankless Brecht. [2004 Jun 23]

F6 Carl L. says he's one of the stranger Belgians:

I live in Belgium (Flemish part), we have a weird dialect taken from dutch overhere, at first I thought that wouldnt count but as I saw there was one of the french part ill give you ours... [2004 Jun 24]

F7 Special thanks to Meg Bateman aka Nynaeve al'Meara for pointing out we were missing a circumflex. [2001 Jun 25]

"I've just been bragging to all my friends that you mentioned me on Axe In My Head" [2001 Jul 17]



There is a slight mistake in your French translation of "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head.". French typography requires a space (an unbreakable space: ALT 0160) before the exclamation mark.

I also wonder why the first word �Oh� was not translated...

By the way, I noticed that many translations have a final exclamation mark, that does not appear in the original English text.

I hope that I'm helping you in saving lives. [No, that isn't usually possible in these circumstances, Alain, but your sentiment is generous in these times. -Ed.]

Regards,

Alain Sergent, Toulon, France.

PS: you may use my name and make it famous, but please do not disclose my e-mail. [2004 Jun 11]

G1 Also, I noticed the german translation - [orig Oh mein Gott! Ich habe eine Axt im Kopf!]- it works out to Oh my God! I have an axe in head!

I suggest that for consistency, it might be better like O mein Gott! Es gibt ein axt im meine kopf! or for urgency: Mensch! Gibt's ein Axt im meine kopf! Feel free to use or ignore what you want...

Regards

John Cheseldine



Danke. When John isn't ensuring that German make sense, he's elaborating on how symbiotes might discuss battle adversely affecting their hosts (see the note on Goa'uld below.)

G2 Christian A. Klepej has but scratched the surface of the deeper complexities of Germanic translation, and the Styrian deity is being addressed directly by his first name... and yet, we are very grateful for these entries:

1) german (styrian-dialect):

»Jessas, i hab a hockn im schaedel.«



2) german (carinthian-dialect):

»Um Goddes wuell, do is a hackale im meim schaedahle.«



::: Christian A. Klepej

::: Graz, Humboldtstrasse 9/II [2001 Aug 22]

G3 Further details from "oliver":

"i've got another translation of that very important phrase. its a german dialect that we are speaking here in austria (to be more precise upper austria)

a few friends and i were discussing what translation would be the best and we came up with this one (it even rhymes)"

G4 Claus Lamm, University of Vienna has another translation to jam into our skulls:

"Well, here is how you would say it in Vorarlbergerisch, which is a dialect spoken in the westernmost part of Austria:



Hargoläss, do ischt an agscht i minoem griand!



cheers,

claus

Claus Lamm

Brain Research Lab

Dept. of Psychology

University of Vienna [2001 Aug 23]

Shortly before the above arrived, an enigmatic "flo" sent in a different take in Vorarlbergerisch... but it doesn't look to us like God is being called on to help with the unfortunately-placed instrument:

"it is a little german mixed up with swiss slang....it´s rather strange. so here´s the translation...



Scheissdreck, I hon a Akscht i da Bira!



Btw, I´m from the western Part of Austria, also known as Vorarlberg.

thanx´n´greetz

flo"

G5 John Cheseldine ringed in this likely enough candidate:



Noticed you had a Klingon translation on your site, so I thought you might appreciate this; It's very rough translation into the Goa'Uld language used by the bad-guys (and slaves) in the Stargate movie and SG-1 series... This is loosely based on dialogue taken from the film, and the concept of the language on Abydos being a corruption of ancient Egyptian...it's not 100% accurate but it's extremely close! [2001 Oct 26]



Individual jaffa may insert their own bosses at the beginning of the statement. Apophis and his ilk would likely use the preface, "Ah me!" and not be terribly concerned about the results.

G6 Notes on Greek from Miriam Kotsonis [2001 Feb 16]:

'Since I don't want anyone to be lax, when dealing with an axe,

here are some suggestions regarding the Greek translations.

The modern Greek you showed had two problems:

"Greek, Modern: hristo mou! eho ena maheri sto kefali mou!" The word for God, or in this case Christ, needs to be in the vocative case, Hriste. Also, the word for axe is "tsekouri" and not maheri, which means knife.

So the correct version would be: Hriste mou! Eho ena tsekouri sto kefali mou!

For Ancient Greek, I don't know all of it (maybe some of the people I've blind-copied this to will be able to help), but you definitely want Thee (pronounced Thayay) mou, not O Theos mou.

With best wishes for your continued success in the list,

Miriam Kotsonis'

This additional note, from Paul Exarhos [6 Mar 2001]:

'Hi Guys!

I received an email with many different translations for "Oh My God there is an exe in my head!" [sic -ed]

I am just writing to you to let you know that the Modern Greek Translation is not correct. What you have written there translates to...." My Jesus there is a knife in my head."

It should read, " The'Mou, eho ena tsakouri sto kefali mou"

I hope this is of some help to you!

Regards

Paul Exarhos'

G7 Our thanks go out to Virginia M. Geraty, Gullah scholar and advocate, who sent this translation in. "Contrary to the belief still held by some, Gullah is not poor, or broken English. It is not a dialect of any other language, neither is it Black English. Gullah possesses every element necessary for it to qualify as a language in its own right. It has its own grammar, phonological systems, idiomatic expressions, and an extensive vocabulary. Since this language was never intended to be written, there are no hard and fast rules governing its orthography." [2001 Apr 29]

H1 Our submission in Hausa is from a Wedge Martin, who insists he's double-checked it, so we'll trust him. Any guesses what happens to you when you get something wrong on this page?:



[2001 May 11] Great work! I love the axe-in-my-head page :)



Ok.. Here's another one.. You may need to do some research, but it's a fairly common language. Primarily in western Africa it's used as a common language between many tribes. The BBC even airs in Nigeria in this language. It's called 'Hausa'. I can't believe I remember this stuff. Enjoy :)



Kai! Ina da bambaro ciken kaina!



It actually translates to 'Kai! (an expression of shock) I have an axe (something like an axe) in my head.'

The first 'Kai' is actually an expression, the second 'kaina' is actually 'kai' (head) and the suffix 'na' is 'my'. 'ciken' is pronounced almost exactly like english 'chicken'.

H2 Originally posted as "Eloi! Yesh'li ca-sheel ba-rosh sheh-li!", we've had some input as to correcting the phrase:

From Barry Barancik [2001 Feb 13]: "Hi. Although the hebrew translation is basically correct, the common modern Hebrew word for a hand-axe is garzen, not ca-sheel. regards, Barry"

And this from OFER-ZI (���� ��݉���) [2001 Mar 06]: 'while readind the "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head" page, I noticed a mistake in the Hebrew translation.

Being an Isreali and as such, a native Hebrew speaker, id like to correct it to: "Allelay, yesh li garzen ba-rosh" (alternative translation would be: "Allelay, yesh li garzen barrosh sheli", but the last word is not necessary)

"oh my god" ("allelay") may also be writen "Oh Ellohim" ("oh god", as is often said) or "Oh Ellohim shelli" ("oh my god", a less common figure of speach)'



Dikla [2004 Apr 24] and Gilia [2004 May 27] seem emphatic that there are just too many words in the Hebrew. Gilia: "It is saying 'Me' twice." So we changed it some.

H3 Another minor tweak from someone outside the Indo-European crowd:



On the site there is the line in "Hungarian: Jaj Istenem, de fejsze van a fejemben!". Literally it means "Oh my God, but there is an axe in my head!"

de means but

Correctly:

"Jaj Istenem, egy fejsze van a fejemben!"

egy is the article we use for the english a or an (which means literally one but we use it like this)

Best regards,

Mária [2004 Apr 18]

H4 As a fellow Waterloo Engineer, I got a real kick out of reading the stuff on your site. However, since Lord of the Rings and Star Trek both have some submissions, I thought it'd be only fair to add a Star Wars one as well. I had a hard time figuring out how to translate axe, but I think it still works:



Tcheesa watichika bo! Ava pi killee krusp da ma green!



This translates to: "Alas exalted one! There is [a] kill stick in my head!"

"killee krusp" could also be substituted with the more vague "punyoo" which just means "weapon"

Cheers,

Mark Laframboise [2004 Jun 17]

I1 Antonio PS proclaims: I send la phrase in Ido. Ido is Esperanto improved. [2004 Jun 16]

Ido is Henry Jacobs' 1947 Esperanto variant, which is just as efficient as Esperanto for getting important information across.

I2 From "Majestic" [2001 Feb 27]: "Quarval-sharess is used to refer to Lloth, the goddess of Drow. Velve means sword. If there is a word for axe in the Ilythiiri tongue, then I have no knowledge of it. -Majestic"

The Drow (and their culture and language) are a popular fantasy race from the RPG "Dungeons & Dragons" by Wizards of the Coast. Doubtless they have encountered axes, and any more complete translation would be appreciated. -ed.

I3 Presumably the native language spoken in the Danish territory of Greenland, submitted by Jette Petersen. [2001 Feb 22]



It's "Greenlandic" and is indeed the dialect of Inuktitut used in Greenland. Inuktitut is the language of the Inuit. In Greenlandic, it's spelled with the same alphabet as in Denmark; in Canada, it's got its own syllabic alphabet.

-Barry Goldstein

Pequod Software [2001 Aug 21]

I4 From the email of F. W., with our most profound thanks [2001 Feb 15]:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I note that you have incorrectly translated the above into Irish (and therefore quite possibly your Celtic and Gaelic versions need to be revised).

The correct version is in fact:

"Ó mo Dhia! Tá tua i mo cheann!"

and not "Mo Dhia! Ta tua sa mo cheann!"

I have underlined the change from "sa" to "i". In Irish, "sa" and "i" are the two words used to describe the English preposition "in". "i" is used, inter alia, to denote the genitive case in respect of bodily parts, such as "in my face" (i m'aghaidh) , "in my head" (i mo cheann), etc. Hence the error in your translation.

I hope this information is of some use to you.

Kind regards,

F. W.

Dublin

I5 "The new language I have for you is Old Irish:



A mo de! Tathum tuag im chenn-sa.

Oh my god! There-is-to-me [an] axe in-my head.



There should be accent marks (long vowels) on the e in de, the a in tathum, and the u in tuag. The line would be pronounced roughly:



A moe they! Tothuv tuagh im xen-sa



The x is the German ch in Bach and the gh is the voiced version of that. I included the pronunciation only because Old Irish is often not pronounced like it is written.

I hope you can use these.



Aaron Griffith [2001 Sep 21]



Thank you, Aaron. We now set it before the tuag-weilders upon Tara, and they shall judge its merits.

I6 Courtesy Robert K [2001 Feb 17]: co dio! xe na mannera nella mia testa from an northen italian dialect used primarily around trieste in the venezia gulia region ( co' dio) is a close equivalent of oh my god ( mannerra = axe) which literally means blackhand.

K1 A well-accredited correction to our Klingoni has come from Qor'etlh of the Klingon Language Institute [stardate 2001 Feb 13]:

An old Federation approximation was:

ghay'cha'! nachwIjDaq betleH tu'lu'!

But careful studies, after decades of dedication, by teams of Linguistic Scientists have revealed that:

toH, HIvqa' Qun'a'wIj! nachwIjDaq 'obmaQ tu'lu'

Is more literally: "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head!"

This is pronounced [ TOKh, HiV-KA KROON-A-WiJ! NAch-WiJ-DAK OB-MAKR TOO-LOO]

Cultural Note: Although the gods were found to be too much trouble, and hunted down & killed by the Klingons eons ago, a few 'personal' gods must still persist.

An alternate reading also arrived from "Danny" [2001 Feb 12] Klingon: #@!&, This is a knife located in head that is mine. Qu'vatlh! nu'oH taj'Daq nachwIj - There you go - 5anny

K2 Additions and corrections from one "Jasmine" [2001 Mar 06]:

Some more translations:

Kyrgyz (from Kyrgyzstan near China and Uzbekistan. It comes from the same family as Turkish does)

Oh Kuday! Bashimda balta bar!

Also, an alternate version of the Russian translation. The one you have on the web page was made by an American, I'm assuming. They are trying to duplicate "there is" in Russian. The form "to be" is very rarely used. A more accurate "Russian" way of saying the phrase would be: Oh God! Axe in my head! with the "to be" part being understood.

Oy Gospodi! Topor u moye golovye!

Enjoy,

Jasmine

M1 Filip [2004 Apr 22] seems to have the most accurate Macedonian, and he passed along a clean GIF. But there are at least two current dialects of Macedonian, and these have been derived from still more ancient ones. Can anyone please sort it all out?



"O, Gospodi! Imam sekira vo glavata,"

You have the Cyrrilic version in the image (official Macedonian alphabet).

All the best,

:-)

Filip



Macedonian: "O boze, imam sekira vo glavata"

Submitted by "K" [2004 Apr 24]



Here is the translation of this phrase in Macedonian (the language spoken in Republic of Macedonia):

Gospodi, imam sekira vo glavata!

...Many regards

Popova Ana from Skopje, Macedonia

(Native speaker of Macedonian) [2004 Apr 26]



"Oh my god! There's an axe in my head," in macedonian

O boze! Imam sekira vo mojata glava

Elena Stafanovska [2004 Apr 23]



�Gospode Boze! Imam sekira vo glava!�

Jehona Zuta



Hello!!!

Your site is fantastic!!

here is translation on "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head" into macedonian language:

Gospodi boze! Imam sekira vo glavata!

...thank you

regards

asparuh mihailov [2004 Apr 22]



Gospode! Imam sekira vo glavata!

Petar Mitrevski [2004 Jun 09]

M2 Nationmaster.com notes: "Malayalam is the major language of the state of Kerala, in southern India." And it's not to be cofused with Malay, or Malaysian axes.

M3 The first translation was found on the (less than etymologically reliable) "Jokes on Languages and Translations" site - www.fortunecity.com/business/moo/1132/Jokes.html [2000 Mar 20]

The second is from CHRISTOPHER at Malta.net

"In Maltese oh my god there's an axe in my head translates literally alla tieghi hemm mannara gewwa rasi. In normal terms it would be il alla hemm mannara gewwa rasi. I would use the first one." [2001 Oct 23]

A third was submitted by Cassar Keith at MITTS; we're not sure if "axxa" is really Maltese... "IL ALLA HEMM AXXA F'RASI" [2001 Aug 24]

M4 From Johanna with xx [2004 May 24]

M5 there's no 'v' in maori - it should be 'aue'

Jo Dunning [2004 Jun 16]

N1 Tord Førland sez: "Please enjoy - spelling has been verified by a Prof. in norwegian language!" [2001 Mar 20]

N2 Corrections have poured in this winter over original submission: "Herre Gud! Jeg har en aks i hodet!":

Jørgen Vinne Iversen [14 Feb 2001]; Jon Reino Heum [14 Feb 2001]; Espen Aase Johnsen [9 Mar 2001]; Sigve Indregard [9 Mar 2001]; Simen Pedersen [9 Mar 2001]; Tord Førland and others have come forward to correct the misspelling of "øks" as "aks". So many in fact, we have to wonder if they aren't incarnations of the same avid axe-head fan. In any case, we sincerely hope help was not delayed to anyone by this unfortunate error. And thanks to everyone for the heads up!

[04 Jul 2001] Apparently we are still experiencing some argument over just how to convince your Norwegian friends a great hatchet of war is sticking out of your cranium. This is not the language group to let down about such an issue. Here's some of the mail we've gotten through the Spring of 2001:

The last translation posted was "Hærregud, eg he ein øks i hovudet!"

[2001 Apr 29] Hi, I am a 16 year old boy from Norway (who cares..)

Your translation of oh my god! There's an axe in my head from english to norwegian is a little bit odd.



The way you have it is as it would have been in earlier norwegian (nynorsk)



In earlier norwegian it should have been:



"Herregud! Eg har ein øks i hovudet"

or

"Å Gud! Eg har ein øks i hovudet"



But most norwegians or write in a newer version of Norwegian (bokmål) And in that case the translation would have been:



"Herregud! Jeg har en øks i hodet"

or

"Å Gud! Jeg har en øks i hodet"



The last two ways of writing it is the most used ones, but the first two is also correct. I suggest you change the translation you already have with one of the ones I have listed.



Greetings from

Tony Hansse

[2001 May 16] The Norwegian version "Hærregud, eg he ein øks i hovudet!" is not really correct. If one is using Bokmål (the majority dialect) "Herre Gud, jeg har fått en øks i hodet" would be correct. In Nynorsk (the minority dialect) this would be "Herre Gud, eg har fått ei øks i hovudet mitt" would be the way to express it.



The viking sagas tell a us lot about axe fighting and a line that is most suitable for your page is:



"Han treiv ei øks i hovudet på han så skallen kløvdes heilt ned til skuldrane. Det blei hans bane!"



- From Eigil Skallagrimssons kongssagaer. In english this would read "An axe was thrust into his head so his skull was split in two right down to his shoulders. This killed him". The last part of the sentnce may seem unnecessary information for us today but the vikings were a tough fighting race and a mere head wound caused by an axe was commonplace.



Andrew Walls

Near the Arctic Circle

Norway

[2001 Jun 01] Just a little pedantic note: there are actually two Norwegian written languages. Directly translated, one is commonly referred to as 'book tongue' and the other 'new Norwegian'. Both are taught in school. The 'book tongue' version of Norwegian language is basically Danish with a twist, whilst 'new Norwegian' is a nationalistic attempt at combining the various attributes of different Norwegian dialects into one whole. Being an attempt at incorporating all dialects, and seeing as there are so many (and consequently conflicting) ones, 'new Norwegian' is quite flexible. As long as one spells words consistently, one may somewhat adjust the spelling according to one's own dialect. Thus, 'aks' may in some instances be an alternative spelling of 'øks', but this is probably limited to isolated backwater burghs no one has ever heard of.



Here are correct Norwegian translations of "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head":

Norwegian 'Book tongue': "Herregud! Jeg har en øks i hodet."

'New Norwegian': "Herregud! Eg har ein øks i hovudet." The version on your site ("Hærregud, eg he ein øks i hovudet!"), I'm sorry to say, is completely off the mark. Firstly, 'hærregud' is a misspelling of 'herregud' in any version of written Norwegian. (It's akin to writing 'oh my gad' instead of 'oh my god'.) Secondly, 'he' is used in some spoken dialects, but is not an acceptable official spelling of 'har'. Although 'new Norwegian' is flexible, there are still certain rules to abide. So, the suggested 'new Norwegian' of "Hærregud, eg he ein øks i hovudet!" is plain wrong. This is not merely my opinion. It is so. Please do not just mention this in the footnote, but correct the main text. .



Regards,

Christopher Slind Nicholso

[2001 Jun 26] nso@slash-ignore writes:

really cool list..

on note thou..

the norwegian translation is really really REALLY wrong..

the norwegian translation should read; "Herregud! Jeg har en øks i hodet!"



acctually.. you might want to keep the one that's allready there.. it ain't norwegian.. it's new-norwegian.. a own written and spoken language..

[2001 Jun 29] Good day to you.



I'm a Norwegian, and I see to my disgust that your Norwegian translation is wrong. The one you have no your page, is 'written the way people talk', and in a dialect. It is not correct Norwegian.



The wrong sentence:

Hærregud, - Written the way people talk. There is no such word as Hærre, and the words Herre Gud should be in two words!

eg he ein - north Norwegian dialect!

øks i - correct

hovudet! - Dialect agai



The correct sentence (and I got the best grades at school!) is:

Herre Gud, jeg har en øks i hodet!



Sincerely

Harald Sandbakke

Norway

[Ed.: We've now posted a couple of each from Bokmål and Nynorsk. If a fresh round of dispute arises, this can only be solved in one way. Everyone in Norway will have to get out their axes, approach those with opposing dialects, and... you get the idea. Ah, for the good old days.]

Q1 The Quest of Axe has begun in Middle-Earth... the Tolkien scholars are sharpening their baruk in preparation to mince Peter Jackson's interpretation of Middle-Earth to a nicety. Or, if the need arises, to leave an axe in his head.

Our thanks to scribe Aaron Griffith for his weapons-take on the subject

"The Quenya translation could be better, I think:



A Iluvatarinya! En na pelecco carinyesse.

Literally: O Earth-father-mine. There is [an] ax head-mine-in.



There should be accent marks (indicating long vowels) over the u in Iluvatar, the a in na, and the a in carinyesse. Iluvatar is more commonly the name the elves use when addressing God. Also, the elves can say 'in my head' all in one word and probably would, rather than as mi nya car, which is printed currently." [2001 Sep 21]



But our original entry for Quenya was just as thoughtful:

"Hello. My name is Ian. I was looking for something cool to do, when all of a sudden, I found your page. It's awesome. My new hobby is to memorize a new way of saying it every day, and say it to someone.



"I was slightly dissapointed however, when I found a Klingon way of saying it, and not an Elvish one. JRR Tolkien wrote the Lord of the Rings series, and there is a movie coming out in mid-December of one of the books. So, I think that you should put in the Elvish language because it is well developed and spoken by many fanatics across the country. I took the liberty of looking up how to say the phrase, in hopes that you would put it on your page. Please think it over. Thank you.

O Erunya! En ná i pelecco mi nya cár.

Oh my God! There is an axe in my head.

"Sorry about not making a contraction of "there is", but I could not find a way in Elf. If you need verrification that this is a legitimate language please go to the following page. They have a word bank. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2196/

"Thanks again. Ian Hardie" [2001 May 21]

Thanks, Ian, though Ilythiiri is arguably an elvish language we've already posted. Also, we are well aware of Prof. Tolkien's contributions, and have been seeking translations in his languages for some time. In fact, he devised more than one elven language, and developed many variants. Your translation appears to be in Quenya...



We invite all Ardan scholars out there to keep commenting.

R1 Submitted by: S.A.\"Vinuri-Ialoveni\" [2001 Mar 23]

Also this from Wed, Eduard Tone [2001 Mar 21]

Hi guys! I'm Eddie from Romania, and let me tell you how to say it:

"Oh, Doamne! Am un topor infipt in cap!"

OK? Nice and practical site you have! See ya!

Eddie

R2 Our original "Bozhe moi! Eto topor v moyei golove!" just isn't good enough for native Russian speakers. So we've posted two alternatives that have arrived; one from Jasmine (see note 22) and another from Anthony J. Vanchu [2001 Mar 09], apparently at NASA... Clearly they're prepared for the imminent impact of an ancient weapon with the International Space Station sometime this year

Dear Site Curator:

Great site!!

One note, however: the Russian-language version of the phrase "Oh my God, there's an axe in my head" on your website, while a workable literal translation, is not the way a Russian would actually say this. May I suggest instead: "Bozhe moy, u meenya tapor v golove!" (The consensus of the several native-speakers of Russian with whom I work).

Tony Vanchu

S1 More axe crises above the Arctic Circle, from Geir Anders Berg [2001 Mar 13]:

I have one for you in sámi language: "Vuoi Ipmilahcci! Mus han leat aksu oaivvis"

The Sámi are the indigenous people inhabiting Northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia's Kola eninsula.

Have a nice day :)

Geir Anders Berg

davvIT as

S2 Discovered at www.vt.edu. [2000 May 10]

S3 Thanks to Dr. Sunil Koswatta [2001 Mar 05]; although we sincerely hope visitors to Ceylon will never need it:

Sinhala is spoken by about 75% of the population in Sri Lanka.

M. Sunil R. Koswatta, Ph.D.

Faculty Coordinator

Department of Instructional Technology

Harper College

Palatine, IL 60067.

S4 A gender pause from Kathy0284:



I was just reading through your translations and I came upon the Spanish translation and it says "una hacha". This is incorrect; it should be "un hacha". ALthough it looks that it should be "una" it takes the masculine form because of hte stressed "h" sound to the word. I only know this because we recently went over this in my Spanish class ( this is my 7th year of it) at school. Thankyou. [2001 May 13]

S5 "In Surinamese, the language spoken in Suriname on the north coast of South America, a former colony of Holland, it would be:



Tjé mi gado! Mi ab' wang aksi na ini mi édé!



In Suriname a machete would be more realistic though,

Krook

Delft, Holland"

S6 How emphatically are you injured by that Swedish axe? Do you even care? This submission from Kari Kakkinen [2001 Mar 09] answers all your questions:

(Original submissions: "Ah, Herregud! Jag har en yxa i huvudet!")

I don't know who gave you the swedish version but to me it's not the the rigth way of saying it, the first part that is.

When you in swedish use the....Ah ........it can be in a situation where you are disappointed with yourself ....Ah, jag missade ( I missed)....or.....it can be in a situation when you are admireing something.....Aaaah, den är vacker (it's beautiful) notice the longer Ah, wich in that situation means that you probably really think the "object" is really beautiful.

So......how is the correct way then ? Like the english way.......Oh

K Kakkinen....Oernskoeldsvik....Swede

T1 Thanks to cbooth@es.com for contributing this, with the following commentary:

"Note that the last vowels in Tanrim and saplanmis are undotted i's; they represent a high back unround vowel. It seems to me that a site claiming to have translations in many languages should avail itself of a way to represent symbols and diacritics that aren't part of standard written American English."

The editors wish to note that this page was posted to meet an emergency no other page on the web provides this service with updates. All the same, we would certainly post gifs or jpegs of these important translations in their original, non-English character sets if contributors send them i. [2000 May 10]

U1 Courtesy Mohammed Farooq [2001 Mar 05]

V1 Thanks to Arden Smith for supplying the Volapük translation! [2001 Mar 15]

W1 Don't be misunderstood in Belgium. Thanks to Jean-Michel Reghem [2001 Mar 07]:

Here is the version of this sentence in Wallon (Walloon: french dialect spoken by old people in french speaking part of belgium... Maybe it is the same for some dialect in the north of France) It's in phonetic, because it is not a language than you can write.

"Nom dé dju, y a èn hache din m' tièt" (In French: Mon dieu, Il y a une hache dans ma tête)

Jean-Michel Reghem (Mons - Belgium)

Y1 Translation and text jpeg supplied by the mighty Barry Goldstein, while us goyim were merely lazing around Christmas week. [2001 Dec 27]



Another submission in Yiddish we recieved from JeffreyW100, but, a little unsure he was:



[2001 Jun 06] "It would be a good idea to add Yiddish as a language. I don't know it exactly, but I think it might be like: Oy Vey, doort is an (axe)in mine kop!



"Actually, it might be: Oy mayn got, doort is an (ax) in mayn kop!!"