Ok, Lemmy, let’s another play a game!

And I honestly think this one’s more important.

Post how many languages in which you can say Please and Thank You, including your native language. If you can, please provide which languages and how to phonetically say them so the rest of us can learn!

I spent a fair amount of bopping around Europe in the early Aughts and as a native English speaker, I found everyone appreciating my bad mangled attempts at politeness.

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    22 days ago

    i can say thank you in more languages than i can say please in.

    perhaps that says something about me

    Obligado

    Dankeschön

    Merci Beaucop

    Thank you

    Gracias

    Domo Arigato (only in latin type, i have no chance of reading/spelling anything in Kanji)

  • owatnext@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    “Please” and “thank you”. English.

    (Pleez ahnd thank yehw)

    “Oes gwelwch chi’n dda” ac “diolch”. Welsh/Cymraeg.

    (Oys gwel ook kheen thza ak deeolkh)

    “Por favor” y “gracías”. Spanish/español.

    (Pour fah vour ee gras ee AHS)

  • Onionguy@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    German Bitte, Danke

    English U KNOW

    French S’il vous plâit, merci

    Spanish Por favor, graçias

    Italian Per favore, grazie

    Czech Prossim, djekuju

    …6 ig :D

  • aleq@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    1. S’il vous plaît / Merci in French.

    2. Snälla / Tack in Swedish (I guess, not sure which word is best translation). Norwegian is something like var så snill / takk I think.

    3. Onegai / Arigatō in Japanese. (Or kudasai as someone mentioned)

    4. 请 (qǐng) / 谢谢 (xièxie) in Chinese.

    Had to check Polish spelling but proszę / dziękuję I think. Not 100% sure about proszę as I think that’s also used when giving someone something, kinda like “here you go”? On a better day I would’ve probably remembered bitte/danke for German too. :-(

  • jwr1@kbin.earth
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    23 days ago

    Do programming languages count? :)

    Here’s Go:

    package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Please and Thank You")
}
    • jwr1@kbin.earth
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      22 days ago

      Why is it that this got the most upvotes, compared to the more genuine comments in this thread? :)

          • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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            22 days ago

            Here’s a horrific example of bash and JS mashed together

            echo "console.log(process.argv[2])" | node - "Please and thank you"

            or bash and python if that’s your thing?

            echo "import sys; print(sys.argv[1])" | python - "Please and thank you"
  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    23 days ago

    English, Spanish, Japanese.

    Please, and thank you.

    Por favor y gracias. (Pour fah-vore ee grassy ahs)

    Kudasai, arigato. (Or if you wanna be extra polite: onegaishimasu, arigato gozaimasu) (Ku-dah sigh, are-ee gato/own ee guy mosh, are-ee gato go sigh moss)

    I know “please” in German, but not thank you. Bitte.

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Two languages. English and Maori.

    Thank you in Maori is “kia ora” (key-ah or-ah, but mostly said more like k-your-ah). Literally translates to “be well”, kia meaning be, ora meaning life/wellness.

    Please in Maori is a bit less clear. There is the word “koa” (I don’t know how to phonetically write it, but all the letters are pronounced the same as above), but that’s a concept that came with pakeha (European settlers). Before that, it was more about the tone of the request.

    Edit: actually I do know more, but English and Maori are the two main languages I know any of.

  • DeuxChevaux@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Bissäguet, Merci (Swiss German)
    Bitte, Danke (German)
    Please, thank you (English)
    S’il vous plait, merci (French)
    Par favore, grazie (Italian)
    Bonvolu, dankon (Esperanto)
    Onegaishimasu, Arigatougozaimasu (Japanese)

  • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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    23 days ago

    Hmm.

    German, French, English, Japanese (seriously, I never realized how much language I took away from martial arts classes! And in my post about counting, a significant percent of other people did, too), Spanish, Esperanto. I think that’s it - 6.

    I can say “blindingly drunk” in Russian, which seems useful. Also, “trust, but verify,” - thanks, Raegan. Two phrases, neither of which are “please or thank you,” but matching the cardinality of your question so I should get a half-point.

  • jimmux@programming.dev
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    23 days ago

    Interesting, I seem to know “thank you” in a few languages, but not “please”. I wonder what that indicates…

    Spanish: por favor, gracias

    French: sil vous plait, merci

    Indonesian: ?, terima kasih

    Mandarin: ?, xie xie

    Japanese: ?, arigato

    German: ?, danke

    Italian: ?, grazie

    Aussie: oi, cheers/ta (/s)

  • rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com
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    23 days ago

    I am unsure how to best do the pronouncing, but en Español: por favor (last part of favor is more pronounced) gracias (first part is more pronounced) In English: please thank you (pronounce more the part that makes sense for the situation)

    What about you :)

    • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.websiteOP
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      23 days ago

      I’m rusty in a bunch. My favourites are the Scandinavian languages just because how the people lit up whenever you tried. It was like “Bless your heart, you poor English speaker.” Like they were watching a puppy.

  • yool_ooloo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    English: Please : Thank you

    French: Aujourd’hui : Merci

    Spanish: Por Favor : Gracias

    German: Regenbogen : Danke

    Swedish: tillhör alla : tack

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      23 days ago

      Aujourd’hui means today. You’re looking for: s’il vous/te plait.

      In German, bitte is please (and part of you’re welcome) but regenbogen means 🌈, so youre still spreading happiness.

      I remember I once told a German person ‘ich besuche dich diese wochenende.’ I’ll visit you this weekend. I meant to wish them a nice weekend. They were quite surprised as we met in a professional work setting, not social, lol.

  • dave@hal9000@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    In order of fluency (for languages spoken, although German was only studied and any fluency has rusted out):

    Portuguese: Por Favor/Obrigado

    English: Please/Thank you

    Spanish: Por Favor/Gracias

    Farsi: Lotfan/Merci (plus many more elaborate ways of thanking)

    German: Bitte/Danke

    For languages I don’t speak at all, but only know because of friends who are native speakers:

    French: s’il vous plait/merci

    Romanian: Va rog/multumesc

    Italian: Per favore/Grazie

      • dave@hal9000@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Yeah, Romanian is so weird to me as a native Portuguese speaker - there are so many cognates. I am good friends with a Romanian family and when they talk all sorts of words are completely understandable coming from Portuguese…

  • SexDwarf@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Please (English)

    • kiitos (Finnish)
    • chōdai / kudasai (Japanese)
    • s’il vous plaît (French)
    • por favor (Spanish)
    • bitte (German)

    Thank you (English)

    • kiitos (Finnish)
    • arigatō (gozaimas) / dōmo (Japanese)
    • gracias (Spanish)
    • merci (French)
    • grazie (Italian)
    • kamsahamnida (Korean)
    • xiexie (Chinese)
    • tänan (Estonian)
    • danke (German)
    • spasiba (Russian)
    • tack (Svedish)
    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      I love the fact that Finnish doesn’t have a way of saying please, so you just thank the person instead. The first time I was in Finland I learned to say “excuse me, I don’t speak Finnish, do you speak English?”, and because that was the only thing I learned I wanted to learn to pronounce it correctly, so I took the time and effort to learn how to pronounce it. The problem when I do this, is that most people don’t learn basic niceties, and even the ones that do tent to mangle pronunciation, so native people think I’m kidding because it sounds like some native saying they don’t speak the language. Also because the majority of interactions with people are simple “hello”, “thanks”, “bye” I like to pick up on those by listening to people, but not by studying it or anything.

      All of that setup for this stupid story: One day I go to a supermarket and the lady tells me “Moi” (hi) and with the same cheerful tone of voice I’ve seen people use I replied with “Moi Moi” (bye bye). I had seen people use both Moi and Moi Moi, but hadn’t noticed that one was hi and the other was bye, so I was accidentally cheerfully rude, and I still feel bad about it. If you’re out there, I’m so sorry supermarket lady in Helsinki, I’m just a dumb tourist trying to be nice.