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Post by seastar on Jun 15, 2018 0:09:00 GMT
Hi everyone!
I am currently learning Spanish. I was curious, so I checked what "snail" was in Spanish. Then, I had the idea that we could write different snail translations here if we feel like it! Don't forget to specify the language!
So, here it begins:
-English: snail
-French: escargot (pronounce ess-kar-go)
-Spanish: caracol (pronounce ka-ra-kol)
I can't wait to discover snail in other languages!
Au revoir! Have a nice evening! ¡Buenas noches!
seastar
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Post by Cashell on Jun 15, 2018 0:17:10 GMT
Learning Spanish, eh? I believe you already speak French, and know some English, so knowing French, English and Spanish would make you quite the linguistic powerhouse! This would also give you access to ~70+ countries! Granted you know them well, that is.
Anyways! 😅 It should be interesting to see what "snail" is in a variety of languages.
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Post by Liguus on Jun 15, 2018 2:15:05 GMT
Interesting, I never read the spanish word for snail. I guess that's where "Caracolus marginella" got it's name from. Personal favorite (Polish): en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ślimak Although I also like my imagined "american pronunciation" for it: "Slime-aak" |
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Post by seastar on Jun 15, 2018 2:22:50 GMT
Spanish is a cool language! I'm not great at it yet, but if I could, I'd learn every language! I'm currently learning English, Spanish (French is my maternal language), QSL (Quebec sign language - I'm awful at it right now) and Braille (in French, I'm not very good either). I'm hoping to learn Italian too! It's amazing! So, in Polish, it's "slimak"? At first, I thought that someone said "slime", but to make it sound cool, they added "ak"... "C'est spécial"!  |
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Post by etana on Jun 15, 2018 9:53:14 GMT
Finnish: officially snail = kotilo, slug = etana. Though in everyday language, they're all called etana.  |
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Post by seastar on Jun 15, 2018 10:22:27 GMT
etana so your PetSnails name is "slug"? Cool! In French, slug = limace. I don't know in Spanish yet.
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Post by blackscorpion on Jun 15, 2018 10:27:50 GMT
Flemish / dutch:
Snail = slak
Slug = naaktslak (nude snail)
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Post by seastar on Jun 15, 2018 12:50:02 GMT
Ok... Let me get this straight: -English: snail, slug -French: escargot, limace -Spanish: caracol, babosa -Polish: slimak, ? -Finnish: kotilo (etana in popular language), etana -Dutch: slak, naatslak Wow! There are so much different snail and slug translations already!  |
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Post by morningcoffee on Jun 15, 2018 13:35:41 GMT
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Post by Phantom on Jun 15, 2018 14:43:37 GMT
Chinese/蜗牛(pronounced "wo-new")
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Post by Phantom on Jun 15, 2018 14:49:14 GMT
Ok I only speak English French and Chinese so I don't know any others I might be learning Spanish next year |
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Post by seastar on Jun 15, 2018 15:44:31 GMT
Phantom YOU SPEAK CHINESE?  ? 😱 I only know one word, and can't write it! It sounds like "ni-hao" and translates as "hello". Thanks for the link morningcoffee ! I'll watch it when I have time to. YOU SPEAK JAPANESE? 😱 Time to update the list: -English: snail, slug -French: escargot, limace -Spanish: caracol, babosa -Polish: slimak, ? -Finnish: kotilo (popular etana), etana -Dutch: slak, naatslak -Japanese: 蝸牛 (katatsumuri), ? -Chinese: 蜗牛(wo-new), 鼻涕虫 (bee-ti-chong) By the way, I could see that Chinese and Japanese symbols look a lot similar! Are they so different?
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Post by Liguus on Jun 15, 2018 22:36:49 GMT
Ok... Let me get this straight: -English: snail, slug -French: escargot, limace -Spanish: caracol, babosa -Polish: slimak, ? -Finnish: kotilo (etana in popular language), etana -Dutch: slak, naatslak Wow! There are so much different snail and slug translations already! Slug is also called "Slimak", we didn't want to over-complicate things haha. |
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Post by Phantom on Jun 16, 2018 7:57:04 GMT
Yes I'm from China so I speak Chinese  Btw slug=鼻涕虫（pronounced bee-ti-chong) |
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Post by seastar on Jun 16, 2018 12:15:46 GMT
Time to update the list again! -English: snail, slug -French: escargot, limace -Spanish: caracol, babosa -Polish: slimak, slimak -Finnish: kotilo (popular etana), etana -Dutch: slak, naatslak -Japanese: 蝸牛 (katatsumuri), ? -Chinese: 蜗牛(wo-new), 鼻涕虫 (bee-ti-chong) If there are other languages, I'll have to update again! |
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Post by Cashell on Jun 16, 2018 18:47:23 GMT
Should be interesting to see some translations from Austronesian and Niger-Congo languages. 🌍🌏
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Post by mutantboy on Jun 18, 2018 19:59:28 GMT
The sign for snail in British Sign Language: stick two fingers out on your dominant hand (keeping them together, as the 'foot' of your snail), 'cup' your other hand and put it over to act as the shell. Wiggle the two fingers (still keeping them together).
Hebrew: שַׁבְּלוּל (shablul)
Romanian: melc.
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Post by seastar on Jun 22, 2018 13:31:47 GMT
Let's update the list again! -English: snail, slug -French: escargot, limace -Spanish: caracol, babosa -Polish: slimak, slimak -Finnish: kotilo (popular etana), etana -Dutch: slak, naatslak -Japanese: カタツムリ(katatsumuri), ? -Chinese: 蜗牛(wo-new), 鼻涕虫 (bee-ti-chong) -Hebrew: שַׁבְּלוּל (shablul), ? -Romanian: melc, ? -British sign language: stick two fingers out on your dominant hand (keeping them together, as the 'foot' of your snail), 'cup' your other hand and put it over to act as the shell. Wiggle the two fingers (still keeping them together), ? Wow! There are so much different snail translations now!   |
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Post by Phantom on Jun 22, 2018 15:52:32 GMT
We can learn a lot from here! |
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Post by natalia_atxa on Jun 28, 2018 14:55:04 GMT
Japanese: Katatsumuri カタツムリ
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Post by seastar on Jun 28, 2018 17:33:02 GMT
Looks like I wrote snail in Japanese wrong... Sorry!
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Post by morningcoffee on Jun 28, 2018 18:50:36 GMT
Looks like I wrote snail in Japanese wrong... Sorry! You didn't write it wrong, 蝸牛 is the correct kanji, but it can also be written the way natalia_atxa typed. Japanese is complicated as it has 3 different character sets/alphabets. Oh, and slug in Japanese is 蛞蝓 - "namekuji". |
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Post by natalia_atxa on Jun 29, 2018 21:31:27 GMT
Looks like I wrote snail in Japanese wrong... Sorry! That's katakana, you used the correct kanji It's only that I've seen it written like this a lot of times! |
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Post by rubberman on Dec 6, 2018 20:47:45 GMT
In Portuguese, the smaller snails are the same as Spanish but the larger ones (like C. Aspersa) are called caracoleta. Hope you're ready for this one... Malwoden == Welsh |
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Post by daniele on Nov 20, 2019 14:29:10 GMT
In italian snail/snails is translated with chiocciola/chiocciole
slugs limaccia/limacce
there is a general word then, that is applied in common language to both lumaca/lumache -in actual italian this is only for slugs, but in the common speaking we use it for snails too!
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