So we are an international website but we only speak English! Now I know this is the easiest and probably the only way it would work, but is this the only way?
On this thread, I invite us all to pick a robot sorta thing (word, phrase etc) and give us the translation in your native language. Points are awarded for creativity!
Kansas speak…
"That didn’t work well"
Translation
"That worked like a 3-legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond out there."
Oklahoma Speak …
Oklahoma Speak
"That is well designed"
Translation
"Well, that’s slicker than chicken ■■■■ on a pump handle"
Illinois
Illinois speak
"Yes"
Translation*
"Does a three legged dog swim in a circle?"
Colloquial English
"Those regulators are difficult to obtain."
Translation to colloquial English: “They’re as rare as rocking horse ■■■■■■
Seriously!
On a serious note, there are 6,912 living languages listed in Ethnologue. We’ve had to pick one and we’re going to stick with it. Primarily, it’s in case an piece of useful information gets lost to another language. Imagine if the entire H-bridge forum had been conducted in Latvian? How hacked off would you be? There is a small drive to have the Start Here robot translated into a few other languages to attract international attention, but we will ask all members to post in English (UK English or Danish English, we’re not fussy).
That aside, I like this idea. Looks like fun.
That’s a jolly good idea
That’s a jolly good idea mate. Crap I don’t know either of those Englishes. I guess I’ll shoot for Danish English and add “thingy” to the end of all nouns.
Anybody want swiss?
"Magic Smoke"
:
"Zauberhafte Rauch"
Norwegian
"Very expencive piece of equipment that has a tendency to malfunction at crucial moments."
* translated*
"Dritt-maskin"
/ vzz-clck-"Maneuver"
"Your english is too
"Your english is too difficult, i can’t understand it."
translation: “Ah yes, go straight and turn left at the traffic lights.”
"Thingey" is English, just
"Thingey" is English, just FYI.
Yes but only the Danish add
Yes but only the Danish add Thingy to the end of everything "voltage measure thingy".
Danish
"Thingy"
translation
dims, dingenot, defus, gizmo, himstergims
Thingey is what the kidz want!
"Thingey" is urban English! Has nothing to do with Danish, it’s just street, web 2.0 and stuff.
Get down with it, bro. Marriged life should not mean that you slack on urban thingeys, dude! Touch my thingey, babe, you know 
Yeah!
Thingy
In french: truc, machin, bidule.
Personally, I find "machin" particularly appropriate for robot thingies.
It has just been replaced, though, by my new favourite word: "himstergims"!!
I agree…
I gotta put my vote in for "himstergims"…
Was that an internet meme a
Was that an internet meme a few years ago? Sounds like hamsterdance. I have that dang song in my head now. Why doesn’t English come up with fun words anymore?
YES!
"dims" is boring. I’m going to contact the dictionary people and see if they’ll add himstergims into the English dictionary. (And the American dictionary as well.)
Jzink
I think I probably made this up myself, but…
I have been using “jzink” for years now. The “Jz” is pronounced like “Jean” in French but with a “ink”. Jzink is a super-universal term, if you upload anything, you jzink it. For example, I have some pictures on my digital camera, I just need to jzink them into the computer. Or, I gotta jzink this video up to Youtube. Or, “I have that file, I’ll jzink it onto a thumb-drive and get it to you”.
I can even Jzink a new program to my Picaxe!
Jzink!!!
Nice one. You can even say
Nice one. You can even say it when you are drunk 
