Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2009 January 31

= January 31 =

Translation
Can you help by translating QUO VATA VA COUT —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.111.125 (talk) 15:44, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Are you sure this is correct? It looks like a cross between Latin and French to me.--KageTora (talk) 16:19, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * "Quo fata vocant" (Whither the Fates call) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.56.101.135 (talk) 19:31, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

"neumal schlau" German translation
What does it mean? I think the whole sentence is: "meine Arbeitskollege sind alle neumal schlau". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.0.97.125 (talk) 20:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It's neunmal schlau, literally "nine times clever". It means being a wiseass. (And it should be Arbeitskollegen to be plural.) —Angr 21:11, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * More common is neunmalklug. Irrelevant trivia: klug found its way into the English language as kludge.--Goodmorningworld (talk) 14:35, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

How is this address read?
港区赤坂5-3-2 赤坂サカス内

It's letter G on this map.

Thank you  Louis Waweru   Talk  21:16, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Minato-ku Akasaka 5-3-2 (go no san no ni), akasaka Sacas nai. --Sushiya (talk) 22:07, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks  Louis Waweru   Talk  22:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Officially, it would be Akasaka-Sacas-Nai, 5-3-2, Akasaka, Minato-Ku. Japanese addresses are written with the larger place coming first and gradually getting more specific, down to the building. This is the opposite of English.--KageTora (talk) 08:40, 1 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Whoops, thank you. It's for my attempt at translating ja:赤坂BLITZ. I'm pretty much stuck now, in case anyone has any interest in adding to it.  Louis Waweru   Talk  14:03, 1 February 2009 (UTC)