82 Countries, 43 Things

8 Responses to 82 Countries, 43 Things

1. Daniel Spils | November 30, 2004 at 1:54 am | Reply

   Using Google I’ve translated #5 as, “reconstructs my individual website”. A better translation might be “redesign my personal website”.<br />
   <br />
   笑顔を増やã?™ – 16 people want to this.

2. Craig Cottingham | November 30, 2004 at 2:22 am | Reply

   These are just guesses, since I’m barely fluent in one language.<br />
   <br />
   #1: run the Castelnaudary semi-marathon in 1 hour, 20 minutes<br />
   #6: build a house<br />
   #12: spend more time with my wife/girlfriend (literally, “woman”)<br />
   #24: kiss (something; “verteilen” is the infinitive form of a verb, but I don’t know what it means)<br />
   #27: girlfriend (literally, the feminine form of “friend”)

3. Marcelo Calbucci | November 30, 2004 at 3:24 am | Reply

   #29 means “to play in Maracana”. Maracanã is the biggest soccer stadium in the world, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

4. suze | November 30, 2004 at 5:03 am | Reply

   #16 should be something like: <br />
   <br />
   “Put online the site, what you said Heric?” <br />
   <br />
   Mysterious!<br />
   <br />
   ~S.

5. Carrick | November 30, 2004 at 8:19 am | Reply

   полохматить бабушку: бабушкa means grandmother and the form бабушку indicates something happens <em>to grandmother</em>. Meanwhile, полохматить appears to be a slang infinitive verb. Given the often ribald nature of Russian slang (mat) I think it’s likely something nasty is going to happen to poor dear grandmother. If I had to guess I’d say it means “to rub out granny” or “to clean out granny’s nest egg.” Or perhaps a semi-literal translation of the phrase completely misses the point? I really shouldn’t have given away my Russian text books.

6. Joost Schuur | November 30, 2004 at 8:46 am | Reply

   17) ‘Become a light’<br />
   20) ‘Rule the world’<br />
   24) ‘Distribute kisses’<br />
   27) ‘Friends’ (sorry Craig, it’s plural for friend, not femenine)<br />
   32) ‘Grow old happlily’

7. Prakash S | November 30, 2004 at 5:53 pm | Reply

   What would be really cool is if I could meet people who are interested in twinkler in a particular country; and find out if they are interested in twinkler because:<br />
   a.) They like one or all of the employee blogs of the Robotcoop.<br />
   b.) Like Ruby & RubyonRails.<br />
   c.) Like to start a company similar to the Robotcoop.<br />
   d.) Like Mac’s<br />
   e.) Something else.<br />
   <br />
   Basically starting a community. Could you guys integrate meetup.com into your site or something like that?

8. Morgan Doocy | December 1, 2004 at 5:38 am | Reply

   I took all the French ones. Some had already been translated above, but I included them anyhow for completeness.<br />
   <br />
   1. Do the Castelnaudary half-marathon in <strong>less than</strong> 1 hr 20 min. (Note that “in” was in English.)<br />
   6. Build a house.<br />
   10. Not be forgotten when I’m gone.<br />
   12. Spend more time with my wife. (Just wife, not girlfriend. )<br />
   13. Have my own bakery and not care if it doesn’t make any money.<br />
   22. Eat good stuff.<br />
   23. Open my eyes underwater.<br />
   28. Eat b’fast [sic] with Clara Morgane.<br />
   34. Graduate from high school.<br />
   36. Succeed in life.<br />
   38. Be happy.<br />
   43. Smoke a family-sized joint.

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