Unlikely phrases from real phrasebooks.
Dutch:
I'm going to prescribe some suppositories.
Ik geef u een recept voor zetpillen.
Welsh:
She has excellent breasts.
Mae bronnau ardderchog da hi.
Gaelic:
Hand me over those moccasins. -- They will not help you much, they are like a singed cat.
Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh.
Portuguese:
Must I swallow them whole?
Devo engoli-los inteiros?
I used to have a friend who knew only one phrase in German. Sadly I don't know the German, but the translation "I am all by myself, under the table, playing with my feet"
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It's funny, but I've just come back from a Greek island for a week, and the pamphlet that the travel operator supplied had a few common phrases, and low & behold, one of these 'useful' phrases happens to be: how much are your melons?
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I am deeply saddened that neither of you have the transaltions handy.
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