Urgent translation required -any language!

(Any internationally recognized language that is ;)) -particularly non-European ones.

I need to stress that a survey on a foreign language program in our school should be returned asap.

So I want translations for "ASAP", "now', "quickly" etc. in as many languages as possible. Especially non-European ones (as I already have several of those). I'm particularly interested in the sort of colloquial phrases that might not make it into a dictionary but which all people who speak that language will understand. like "chop chop!" :lol:

please :)

Right Quick, in the Southern dialect. ;)

"rápidamente", "schnell" and "avec vitesse" exhaust my natural language inventory.

in chines......

,,,, and Russian.....

"sutra" if Lojban counts

..... and Greek.... (though that is a European language)...

in a new york minute

(described as the nano-interval of time between a light's turning green and the driver in the car behind you honking his horn)

pronto
bistro

Hubba Hubba "Hancho " !! Thats what you tell a cabbie in Okinowa Japan to make him hurry up

xian zai - now
kuai - fast

Ibram wrote:

xian zai - now
kuai - fast

thanks

footfootfoot wrote:

pronto
bistro

pronto
bistro
fellatio


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zippyt wrote:

Hubba Hubba "Hancho " !! Thats what you tell a cabbie in Okinowa Japan to make him hurry up

ta. But is it what you also tell a parent in Ann Arbor?:eek: ;)

Don't forget abbreviations - RFN .

STAT = instantly, immediately, on the spot, at once. It's medical shorthand (from the root Latin word "statim") which crosses many languages.

Russian-

прямо сейчас (preeyama seychas) - right now/right away
как можно скорее (kak mozhna skahryehyeh) - as soon as possible
быстро (buystra) - quickly
немедленно (nye medlenna) - immediately
сразу же (srazu zhe) - straight away

Hope this helps.

Couple more Russian ones:

сию минуту - (siYU meeNUtu) right this minute

сейчас же - (seiCHAS zhe) right now -- zhe is an intensifier of anything

Vocalperk's transliteration is very careful, but you can say CKOPEE like "sko-rey-eh" and be well understood. Especially if you roll the R -- all Russian Rs are rolled. They aren't quite as rattly as Spanish RRs, though; pull back just a bit and you'll sound like a native.

I'm not quite sure if Spanish says ahorita for "quickly" as well as for "at this moment," but I suppose they do.

Urbane Guerrilla wrote:

сейчас же - (seiCHAS zhe) right now -- zhe is an intensifier of anything

So in US military dialect it could be rendered "right fucking now". :-)

And in parent,
"or else" ;)

xoxoxoBruce wrote:

And in parent,
"or else" ;)

That's understood in the idiom. :-)

schnell! mach schnell!.. no european languages huh? oh well.. hmm..

vocalperk wrote:

Russian-


быстро (buystra) - quickly

Corrupted to form Bistro. Who says the french aren't into "fast food"?

monster wrote:

pronto
bistro
fellatio


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Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him fellatio.

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Oops sorry, this isn't the word association thread.

thanks everybody :)

Undele~ Undele! Eeeba Eeeba - Speedy Gonzalez of Warner Brothers
Get the Led out - My Father telling me NO MORE Zepplin
Sh*t and Git....(mostly Southern)
Burn Rubber- Late 70's, early 80's
Take off you Hoser (McKenzie Brothers Canadian)

and in Pig Latin:
OOyah Urryhay (You Hurry)
or
Urryhay Uphay (Hurry Up)

Cepat Indonesian

monster wrote:

(Any internationally recognized language that is ;)) -particularly non-European ones.

I need to stress that a survey on a foreign language program in our school should be returned asap.

So I want translations for "ASAP", "now', "quickly" etc. in as many languages as possible. Especially non-European ones (as I already have several of those). I'm particularly interested in the sort of colloquial phrases that might not make it into a dictionary but which all people who speak that language will understand. like "chop chop!" :lol:

please :)

Hi, I'm Zoli from Hungary. The Hungarian versions for your requests are the following (pronunciation in [brackets] ):

ASAP (=as soon as possible): Amint lehet [omint lehet] OR Amint lehetséges [omint lehetshaygesh]
now = most [mosht]
quickly = gyorsan [dyorshan]

Regards

In Spanish:

ASAP = lo más pronto posible [lo 'mas 'pronto po'sible]
now = ahora [a'ora], ahorita [ao'rita], ahora mismo [a'ora mismo], ya [ya].
quickly = rápido ['rrapido], rápidamente ['rrapida´mente]

Separate translation need, I need someone who can email in Dutch to negotiate for an Image of the Day series. Anyone?