[Nak Man]

The 'Bahasa' thing is correct, but I prefer to have it listed under Indonesia.

Bahasa = language

Speaking of which, mine was yesterday

... so Pinkie, thanks for bringing up the generic birthday mood =) I remember getting birthday greetings from some internet bot site with all Klingonese etc.

 

[thefinder]

For some reasons, geocities.com has been blocked by Chinese "Great Firewall" since the begining. Anyway we can still reach it with proxy servers jut fine.

On the second link, I think the Chinese Mandarin one is wrong. It's supposed to be "Zhu ni sheng ri kuai le" or simply "Sheng ri kuai le" instead of "Qu ni sheng er kuai le".

 

[Spankypoo]

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Originally Posted by Lisa Dutch is wrong (I think). No capitol letters unless it is the beginning of a sentence or a name. So not "Hartelijk Gefeliciteerd", but "Hartelijk gefeliciteerd" I could be wrong cause Dutch spelling is NOT my strong point but it seems awfully weird to me. They do the same in Afrikaans. Wonder about that too...

Yeah, they put a lot of 'em in capital letters that didn't need to be, Tagalog included. I suppose that should be more strictly observed, as in some languages that could matter, no?

 

[plainsong]

Finnish is correct.. accept usually people just say "Onneksi olkoon" or you'd get a card that says "Onnea" on it - which are both forms of the same thing, congratulations. Anyway, that's what I usually hear on my bday. Rarely do you get the full "happy birthday," which is in the translation on the site.

 

[Leporello]

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Originally Posted by plainsong Finnish is correct..

Well, not quite. In this sentence "Syntymäpäivää" should not be written with capital 's'.


Regards,

L.

 

[warubozu]

Hawaiian is correct.

 

[PinkFloyd]

I can confirm that English is correct also.

 

[Aman]

The latin phrase is incorrect. It should read more like:

io natalus

 

[Alex Altorfer]

Portuguese is correct. Latin surely seems to be wrong. My best guesses would be Diem Natalem Felicem Tibi Desidero (or Expeto), or Natalis Gaudentis.

Cheers!

 

[DanG]

Hebrew is correct.

Russian should read:

"Ti schto, padlo? Podumayesh, yescho got, blyat'."

 

[Unclewai]

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Originally Posted by tiberian cantonese is correct.

The labelling is wroong though......"In Taiwan".......

"In Chinese" should be in simplified Chinese
"In Taiwan" should be in traditional Chinese

 

[cellophane]

Is it just me, or does the original link that pinkfloyd gave . . . have only pinyin and simplified? i dont see any romanized cantonese . .. or simplified/traditional/taiwanese designations . . .

 

[Aman]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex Altorfer Latin surely seems to be wrong. My best guesses would be Diem Natalem Felicem Tibi Desidero (or Expeto), or Natalis Gaudentis. Cheers!

Are you sure that a more simple version of this cannot be applied? I am definitely no latin scholar, but I know enough to get around, and wouldn't a simple "io" make the term "happy" applicable enough?

It seems that natalus (meaning birthday in subject form) is the correct word gramatically, so I don't think that may be of any question.

However, since you appear to know better than me, what would "io" mean? Because I remember learning that festinavus was always celebrated by the Romans by them shouting "io festinavus!" which translated to "greetings to festinavus" or "happy festinavus".

Thanks in advance for any response!