Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:00 pm

vogeltje wrote:
MorkTheFiddle wrote:It occurs to me that multilingual dog commands should be called multidoggerel. :roll:


:)

or multiwoof

polybark

Multiwoof is good but I really like polybark! :D
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:46 am

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
vogeltje wrote:
MorkTheFiddle wrote:It occurs to me that multilingual dog commands should be called multidoggerel. :roll:


:)

or multiwoof

polybark

Multiwoof is good but I really like polybark! :D


I've changed the thread's name :)

can you play the violin? or don't you mean the violin (fiddle?)
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:59 pm

vogeltje wrote:can you play the violin? or don't you mean the violin (fiddle?)

No, I don't play the violin. I play the guitar some, but not well. :oops:
Mord Fiddle is the first character who appears in the Icelandic saga The Story of Burnt Njal (also known as Njals Saga), one of my favorite pieces of literature, and which begins, "There was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle . . ." (from the Dasent translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17919/17919-h/17919-h.htm.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:01 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
vogeltje wrote:can you play the violin? or don't you mean the violin (fiddle?)

No, I don't play the violin. I play the guitar some, but not well. :oops:
Mord Fiddle is the first character who appears in the Icelandic saga The Story of Burnt Njal (also known as Njals Saga), one of my favorite pieces of literature, and which begins, "There was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle . . ." (from the Dasent translation: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17919/17919-h/17919-h.htm.


I didn't know that Fiddle was a surname as well. I love the violin :)

Have you got a dog?
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Re: Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

Postby Tomás » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:42 pm

What's the command for: "Don't eat out of the cat box or destroy any furniture while I'm gone"?
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Re: Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:45 pm

Tomás wrote:What's the command for: "Don't eat out of the cat box or destroy any furniture while I'm gone"?


in which langauge (human)?

I can't say becuase I haven't got a cat haha.

what type of dog have you got? Obvioulsy a naughty one.
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Re: Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

Postby Systematiker » Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:25 am

Tomás wrote:What's the command for: "Don't eat out of the cat box or destroy any furniture while I'm gone"?



That's not a cat box, it's a snack bar.

I still call it that sometimes...
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Re: Polybark (multilingual dog commands)

Postby Tomás » Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:43 am

Also: "If the cat barfs on a library book, please god don't chew up the cover!" It cost me $80 to replace the book the last time that happened.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:06 pm

vogeltje wrote:
I didn't know that Fiddle was a surname as well. I love the violin :)

Have you got a dog?


Come to think of it, "surname" is inaccurate, because Icelanders did not (and still do not) have surnames. The original word is "gígja," and it's really a nickname. And no, no dog, though I had one as a small boy. I, too, like the violin (and the fiddle as well :) ). I listened to Vilde Frang play in person just the other day.
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Re: Multilingual dog commands

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:45 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
vogeltje wrote:
I didn't know that Fiddle was a surname as well. I love the violin :)

Have you got a dog?


Come to think of it, "surname" is inaccurate, because Icelanders did not (and still do not) have surnames. The original word is "gígja," and it's really a nickname. And no, no dog, though I had one as a small boy. I, too, like the violin (and the fiddle as well :) ). I listened to Vilde Frang play in person just the other day.


Vilde Frang is great and she has a very energetic bow technique haha It's not my favourite intrsument, but nearly.

Weird that Icelanders havne't got surnames. How does it work in Iceland?
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