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[flemmings]

Beware of the dog signs in many languages. The Japanese sounds off to me, and I'm not sure the Swedish is on the level ("Varning för hunden") given what they did with Australian.

That said, jeez is Faroese Old Englishish or what? Swefan æfter symble and Ansið eftir hundinum.

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[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Not just any old dog! ...I would've translated the Malay one as :

Awas anjing garang = Beware of the fierce(ferocious?) dog.

Garang means= fierce, ferocious or fearsome ahahaha. Somehow I am tickled.

Interesting link is interesting. ^_^

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I have been taking photos of the amusing "curb your dog" signs one finds here. I haven't been as diligent about this as I should have, but they're all, of course, very cute.

I desperately want to photograph this sign that I see on my not-very-frequent walks to work (I usually ride with friends); it's a "be sure your dog has a dog license, or he'll get lost" sign, and it depicts a very sad cartoon dog crying his eyes out at night, lost outside the big city with no license (they helpfully put a dotted outline at his collar to show what's missing). Kind of heartbreaking, really.

[sodzilla.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Swedish is correct, though a more literal translation into English would be "warning about the dog".

*Swedish lurker vanishes in puff of smoke*

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Awwwwww!!!! "be sure your dog has a dog license, or he'll get lost" sign, and it depicts a very sad cartoon dog crying his eyes out at night, lost outside the big city just aawwww.

[ninjoo.livejournal.com]

In Dutch you usually say "Pas op voor de hond" (beware of the dog). "Geen toegang loslopende honden" means "No entrance for dogs not on a leash", which is a sign at the entrance of a nature reserve etc... :D

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

It's close to Beware of the dog, though. Shares cognates and all. I thought it sounded a bit too close to English for me to trust it completely.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Right. Though 'Kijk uit voor de hond' makes me happy in all sorts of obscure English dialect ways. 'Keek' is a-- umm-- northern English, I think, dialect word for look.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

What's the Hunden biter part? Or is it an alternative sentence? (Babblefish doesn't provide Norwegian translation. Pooh to Babblefish.)

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The Japanese will do this. They had an utterly weepy animated ad for rice makers where the old rice pot, with his possessions in a bundle on his back, takes his leave of the family-- 'Taihen o-sewa ni narimashita,' which you'd think *they'd* be saying to *him*-- and out into the night, and peers back through the window at the family sitting happily at table with their new rice maker, and sheds a tear. This is supposed to convince you to buy a rice maker?

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Somehow we don't need to tell you that the dog in question is ferocious. Possibly because you might get sued for keeping a dangerous animal and advertising it as such? Nah, I got nothing.

[ninjoo.livejournal.com]

They do indeed, especially when spoken.
'Keek' is also the past tense of 'kijk' in Dutch. It sure is fun!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah, oool, thanks! Google has its uses still.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. I've heard of Spanish and Italians who can do that, but there you kind of expect it.

[ninjoo.livejournal.com]

:D That's cool! Yeah, you expect it with Spanish/Italian, and Norwegian/Swedish/Danish, and even a Dutchman and German can speak to each other in their own language and understand most of it. It's fun to see that languages that are a little further apart still have so much in common!

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

And I imagine the family is all "Whee, new rice cooker!" and have totally forgotten about the old rice cooker which is now staggering off to gods know where, all by itself. (I'm a bit boggled at a rice cooker having possessions to take with it, but I spent some time in advertising so I know how absurd it gets.)

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I remember getting lost once as a kid (I'm sure I got lost more than once, but there's one particularly painful one I remember), and that is *exactly* how I felt.

Of course, the easier solution would be to NOT LET YOUR DOG WANDER AROUND UNATTENDED, but that point seems to be too obvious for folks here to understand.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

well you know he has to take the old hot coals with him ... or would that be the old wiring along with wherever it is out dated rice cookers go!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

sometimes they let the children off loose on their own too! Sort of joking there. The low crime rate here does make us complacent.

Also maybe the thinking is that as dogs, they *SHOULD* be able to find their way home.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

That's about the size of it. Just waiting for the battered old pot to get lost so they could have happy fun times with their new gadget. Since it was all shot from the rice pot's POV and the family had no dialogue at all, not even a good-bye, they really looked like jerks.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Now my recollection of Tokyo dogs was that the poor things were kept chained up on short leashes 23.5 hours of the day. Clearly it's better to be an inaka pooch. You may get lost but at least you can RUN.