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thelmadatter · Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:24 pm Post subject: cheers!

Not to outdo Guy's thread.. but how about the various ways to say "Cheers!" Here's the ones I know:

Mexico - Salud

Southern Germany - Prosit

Norway - skol (not sure on the spelling... I know the "o" needs something)

China "gum bai" (again, not sure on the spelling)

I always like adding new ones at parties Wink

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

Czech: nazdravi (or is it 2 words?)

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enigma · Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 68

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

In N�huatl (what the Aztecs spoke and what many people still speak here) it's:

paqui-litzli (happiness)

Tleca amo o-huala?

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

Hi Thelma et al

As an avid, semi-professional weekend beer drinker, I feel that we,

as English Instructors, must hold ourselves to the highest of standards,

and imbibe together in a linguistically correct manner at all times.

In further support of that noble goal,

the Mother of all

websites,

AWA - The Alternative Whisky Academy:

http://www.awa.dk/glosary/slainte.htm

"Chok dee!" in Thai

. . .

Chasgul · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 168 Location: BG

Nazdrave = na zdrave = to health.

Generic Slavonic, slight differences in spelling or pronunciation but covers Czech (as mentioned), Bulgarian, Russian....

spidey · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

Well just to add to the pot...

Japanese..."kompai!"

Koean..."kombae!"

Notice how similar they are to Chinese?

Ho-hum Rolling Eyes