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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1070.0. "Help on translation please." by ESSB::CWHITE () Thu Oct 28 1993 09:16

    Hi there,
    
    Can anyone translate the following:
    
    	SLACHCO YETO
    
    I have been told that its not vulgar!!
    
    There is a whole night of free guinness if I can crack it :)
    
    Thanks in advance,
         Conor.
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1070.1TLE::JBISHOPThu Oct 28 1993 11:031
    It looks Slavic--try the USSR conference.
1070.2CSC32::D_DERAMODan D'Eramo, Customer Support CenterThu Oct 28 1993 11:137
        Maybe it is an anagram.
        
        	SLACHCO YETO
        
        	CHOCOLATEYS :-)
        
        Dan
1070.3Or alternativelyKERNEL::MORRISWhich universe did you dial?Fri Oct 29 1993 02:517
    I prefer the alchoholic version:
    
    	LO, SCOTCH!   AYE!
    
    Lang may yer lum reek!
    
    Jon
1070.4Anyone with a big Russian dictionary?TLE::JBISHOPFri Oct 29 1993 07:056
    Is SLACHCO pronounced /slaCko/, with /C/ like 'ch' in 'which',
    or /slaCtso/ or /slaSCo/ with /S/ like 'sh' in 'wish'?
    
    I couldn't find any likely candidates in my little Russian
    dictionary.
    			-John Bishop
1070.5Close but no cigarTLE::JBISHOPMon Nov 01 1993 07:228
    Best I could find in a big (4 inches thick) Russian-English /
    English-Russian dictionary at the local public library is
    /slaSCye/ (using the conventions of .4) which means "sweeter",
    so that the whole phrase would mean "that's sweeter".
    
    Please tell us the real answer if you find it!
    
    		-John Bishop
1070.6Some more infoESSB::CWHITEWed Nov 03 1993 04:3417
    Re: .4 & .5 
    
    John,
    
    Thanks very much - I may end up having to share some of the guinness
    with you. I was back on to the person in question. They said it is
    pronounced as:
    
    	skel-acho  yeeto
    
    If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful.
    
    
    Thanks, 
         Conor.