Language barriers

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:35 pm

Oi, PiPster: how does one say
"Hello.
Thank you very much for your service - we have been very happy with your company and your workers, and we wish you all the best in the future.
Kind regards,
The staff."
in Polish?

Help a sister out here?

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:02 am

Aonaran · Post by **Aonaran** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:10 am

She's firing a lover

Dreadnought · Post by **Dreadnought** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:18 am

Dzien dobry,
dzienkuje za pomoc(help)/serwis(service) - jestersmy bardzo zadowoleni z panska firma in pracownikami. Zyczymy wszyskjego najlepszego i postdawjami,

dunno how to say STAFF... also I recommend a 'real' polack to check through this. I am pretty much positive there are 523452346 billion ways to express this in a better and more fitting way.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 4:18 am

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:04 am

Powitanie. Dziękuję bardzo pod kątem twÃ³j świadczenie mamy był bardzo zadowolony rezygnować twÃ³j zakład i twÃ³j pracownicy, i my życzyć ty wszystko ten najwyższa oferowana cena w ten przyszły. Miły względy, Ten personel.

You can't get more grammatically correct than that.

You probably can, but that'd be too much of a compliment.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:23 am

kurwa mac for life

ApTyp wrote:I'm sure you'd make a lovely wife to some poor... or moderately affluent boy.

hahaha

Fa11lloutfan_15 · Post by **Fa11lloutfan_15** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:28 am

Heil Hitler!
Entsprechend den Bedingungen des zwischen dem KÃ¶nigreiche Preussen und dem russischen Reiche abgeschlossenen Gebietsvertrags (Sieg heil!) danken wir Euch fÃ¼r Euren Dienst, Ã¼ber den wir uns sehr gefreut haben, und wÃ¼nschen Ihnen eine schÃ¶ne Zukunft als den respektiven Reichen untergeordnete Schutzobjekte. Sieg heil! Sie kÃ¶nnen uns danken jetzt.

Danke schÃ¶n, Heil Hitler,
Die Schutzstaffel.

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:45 am

If I was firing a lover, I'd do it with a kick to the balls and lots of screaming - no need for fancy Polish translations.
Aye, a contractor is being fired.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:21 pm

Tingel Tangel wrote: "Hello.
Thank you very much for your service - we have been very happy with your company and your workers, and we wish you all the best in the future.
Kind regards,
The staff."

mmkay

first off, you don't hello at the beginning of formal letters - neither in Eng nor in PL, so just skip it. If you really must, go with
"Dzień dobry!" (last letter in first word should be 'n' with something which looks like an 'accect' mark over it, though it's really a palatalisation mark, like that little wave you got in some other languages. Type 'n' if you can't get that one.)

then go like this:

"Dziękujemy bardzo za wasze usługi - byliśmy bardzo zadowoleni z waszej firmy i waszych pracownikÃ³w i życzymy wam powodzenia w przyszłości.

Z wyrazami szacunku
- personel/pracownicy/zespÃ³ł/załoga/sztab/grono pedagogiczne."

What kind of 'staff'? At what place? You'll probably want the 'personel' option but I can't be totally sure. There's also a slight chance I'm not translating 'service' right, so you could be more specific about that too.

Oh in case Polish diacritic signs got fucked up by DAC (totally happens in the Polish subforum) here is a diacritic-free version:

"Dzien dobry!

Dziekujemy bardzo za wasze uslugi - bylismy bardzo zadowoleni z waszej firmy i waszych pracownikow i zyczymy wam powodzenia w przyszlosci.

Z wyrazami szacunku
- personel."

I think maybe you should write something like "personel Smith &co." - it would be clearer who actually wrote this. In Polish definiteness is contextual, not article-marked so 'THE staff' doesn't work that good.

Oh, both the 'author' (verbs) and the 'addressee' (possessive pronouns) are in plural, so if you need either put in singular let me know.

There ya go

(next time PM me tho; rarely do I have the time to read all new threads..)

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:41 pm

Thanks, man.

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:45 pm

I just helped to fire some Pollocks, didn't I

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:51 pm

They've already been fired, sadly. Some of us just wanted to leave them a message saying that we liked them ^^

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:15 pm

Tingel Tangel wrote:They've already been fired, sadly. Some of us just wanted to leave them a message saying that we liked them ^^

pffftt, girls.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:22 pm

I too need a translator. How would one say: "Meet me under the aqueduct, pronto. Bring the shit." ?

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:40 am

cazsim83 wrote:
Tingel Tangel wrote:They've already been fired, sadly. Some of us just wanted to leave them a message saying that we liked them ^^
pffftt, girls.

ya, indeed, kinda like let's just be friends bs
that's actually an insult, TT, fyi
It's basically saying "lol, we fired you, and now we are even such assholes as to ridicule you with our hypocritical antics"

fuck that, at least be honest and tell them to get fucked or just leave it at that ffs

I doubt you'll understand that, but some part in me thinks not all is lost in you.

Tingel Tangel · Post by **Tingel Tangel** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:43 am

Actually, we were all fired. The lot of us. -we- didn't fire -them-. The main company decided to close the place down and we're all fired as of October 31st. The not is not meant as an insult but as a genuine thank you for their effort.

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:46 am

ah, well, that's a bit different matter

Just invite them for a last binge drinking under former colleagues then if you like them that much, eh

cazsim83 · Post by **cazsim83** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:15 am

Tingel Tangel wrote:Actually, we were all fired. The lot of us. -we- didn't fire -them-. The main company decided to close the place down and we're all fired as of October 31st. The not is not meant as an insult but as a genuine thank you for their effort.

This may be the ONE thing I ever say to you (partly since you're a girl, mostly because you've been cool to me) but....
You got FIRED from McDonalds!?!?!?

Or did I miss something somewhere?

Post by **Dogmeatlives** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:41 am

Tingel Tangel wrote:Actually, we were all fired. The lot of us. -we- didn't fire -them-. The main company decided to close the place down and we're all fired as of October 31st. The not is not meant as an insult but as a genuine thank you for their effort.

Don't you work in fast food? Why are you firing contractors?

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