How do you say hi and/or bye in your country??

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

How do you type the Russian letters? Do you have a special keyboard?

[Broccoli]

I have Latin and Cyrilic letters on my keyboard and I have to switch languages in the system before typing!

Oh, and I have just edited the poll to add "other" option.

[Un'Anima Persa]

thanks for the poll ting, i meant to puut it, but didnt know if i could edit my message or not...

[Hagger 9003]

i kno this guy who can type korean with an english keyboard. he types the sounds, using a special program. must be really hard...

oh, and here is korean

hello: dan young

[Phinea Rogue]

Oh! I like Ahoj! Here, it is how old sailors are supposed to greet each other.

Yes, I've heard of that. Rammstein sing "Ahoi" in one song and so I've learnt it's sailors' greeting. Funny, Slovakia doesn't have any sea, how did we come to such a greeting?

[Broccoli]

i kno this guy who can type korean with an english keyboard. he types the sounds, using a special program. must be really hard...

I have also seen programmes that transform the Latin letters you type into Russian ones, but usually if we don't have a Russian keybord we just use the Latin letters. This kind of language or "encoding" is called "translit".


As for Ahoj, I also heard that it's sailors' greeting and it is an abbreviation from "Ad honorem Jesu".

[choki]

there are indeed programmes to type chinese,korean, japanese characters based on the sound.

if i have to type good morning in chinese, I would have to type 'zao' 'an' and it will give me this two words 早安

I love you in japanese 'ai' 'shi' 'te' 'ru' -> 愛してる

[Mint]

In Russian:

Hello: Привет [priv'yet]
How do you do: Здравствуйте ['zdrastvuyte], the v is not pronounced
Good morning: Доброе утро ['dobroye 'utro]
Good day: Добрый день ['dobryi den]
Good evening: Добрый вечер ['dobryi 'vecher]
Good night: Спокойной ночи [spo'koynoy 'nochi]
Good bye: До свидания [do svi'daniya] - formal, пока [po'ka] - informal

All "o"s that are not stressed are pronounced like a variation of "a".

well, same goes for me XD I will try to remember it in Ukranian, will put it up later.

[hermione_granger_1993]

i say in english

hi: HI
bye: Bye
good day: GOOD DAY

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Broccoli wrote:
In Russian:

Hello: Привет [priv'yet]
How do you do: Здравствуйте ['zdrastvuyte], the v is not pronounced
Good morning: Доброе утро ['dobroye 'utro]
Good day: Добрый день ['dobryi den]
Good evening: Добрый вечер ['dobryi 'vecher]
Good night: Спокойной ночи [spo'koynoy 'nochi]
Good bye: До свидания [do svi'daniya] - formal, пока [po'ka] - informal

So are the keyboards massive? The ones with say, latin & Russian and English characters on them? Or does every key have three letters from the different languages on them. That'd make sense, and the keyboard would be the same size.

[Broccoli]

Basically you can install dozens of languages in your system preferences and then just press a key combination and switch to the next language. There are keyboards with 2 letters on each key and there are stickers one can put oneself, but you can also type "blind" without seeing say the Russian letters.

[Female_alien]

in croatian:

Hello: Bok! Zdravo!
Good morning: Dobro jutro!
Good day: Dobar dan!
Good evening: Dobro veče!
Good night: Laku noć!
Good bye: Doviđenja!

in italian:

Hello: Ciao!
Good morning: Bon giorno!
Good evening: Bona sera!
Good night: Bona notte!
Good bye: Arrivederci!

[Hagger 9003]

this is a cool thread. i just wish i knew more languages!!

French
Bonjour: hello = hello (good day)
salut = hi

[Un'Anima Persa]

this is a cool thread. i just wish i knew more languages!!

lolz XP me too!

[L'Oeil de Râ]

French
Bonjour: hello = hello (good day)
salut = hi

Good

In french, we use salut to say hi and good bye. We say bonjour and au revoir (good bye) to be more polite.