My language and Yours

**jinalyn** · 08-04-2006, 09:04 AM

There are some words in my language that are kinda same or sounds like with some english words..
hehe .. i just noticed it.

Sing! sing!
(ur telling someone to sing)

in my language..
we have.. "singsing"... but it means ring.
(the one u wear around ur finger).

Suck it

we have here "sakit" it means pain/painful.

to you

"toyo" means soy sauce

a sin

hehe when we combine "a" and "sin" here..
asin means salt

bowling

here ,boling means dirt.

Two big .......

tubig here means water .

08-04-2006, 06:18 PM

haha well i cant think of any arabic word that sounds like english

**Fun** · 08-05-2006, 01:57 AM

Haha jinalyn thats pretty cool. Nice thread. =]

**jinalyn** · 08-05-2006, 09:36 AM

haha thanks.

**Beautiful_Loser** · 08-06-2006, 07:13 PM

The first one that comes to mind in Creole, (Haiti) is cop (i could be spelling it wrong) though.

In english cop means police officer while in creole it means hair dandruff.

In english the sound glo means glow, or shine. in creole it means water.

**jinalyn** · 08-07-2006, 08:59 AM

Additional word..

ditto

we have "dito" in my language but it means here.

dito = here