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Cave Canem in many languages!!
Posted: 2003-06-05, 6:38
by Leviwosc
Hello Everybody,
I think everybody knows "Cave Canem" is Latin for, "beware of the dog". I'm pretty curious, how you say, "beware of the dog" in other languages! Can you help me with creating a huge list?
Afrikaans: Kyk uit vir die hond
Dutch: Kijk uit voor de hond
English: Beware of the dog
Latin: Cave Canem
With kind regards,
Ron de Leeuw
The Netherlands
Posted: 2003-06-05, 7:41
by leppie
Italian: attenti al cane
Posted: 2003-06-05, 7:58
by Luís
Portuguese: Cuidado com o cão
Posted: 2003-06-05, 10:17
by NulNuk
Hebrew :זהירות כלב! (zeyrut kelev !).
Castellano : cuidado con el perro /peligro perro .
Posted: 2003-06-05, 12:38
by duko
Romanian: atenţie la câine - beware of dog, but nobody would use that. The
usual sign says: câine rău - evil dog
Posted: 2003-06-05, 14:06
by Saaropean
duko wrote:Romanian: atenţie la câine - beware of dog, but nobody would use that. The
usual sign says: câine rău - evil dog
I guess that's similar to the situation in Germany. You could say
Vorsicht Hund or so, but usually it's
Vorsicht, bissiger Hund! (Beware, biting dog),
Vorsicht, frei laufender Hund (Beware, loose dog) or a funny variation...
CAUTION! FREE RUNNING DOG!
When dog comes, lay down and wait for help. If no help comes -
GOOD LUCK!
Or check out the ones at
http://www.schroeders-hundeleben.de/Schilder/schilder.html that warn people of relax, incredible, sociable, incorrupt and interested dogs.
Besides, you're too late Ron. Someone has already started such a collection. It's at
http://www.ozaru.freeserve.co.uk/bjdogs.htm
POLISH
Posted: 2003-06-05, 15:44
by Fenek
Uwaga! Zły pies!
(Literally: Attention! A bad dog!)
Czech
Posted: 2003-06-05, 18:56
by Mara
In Czech, we use the same expression as in Polish (of course translated into Czech
):
Pozor, zlý pes!
More German...
Posted: 2003-06-05, 19:13
by Junesun
In the Asterix comic "Zoff im Pott"("Streit um Asterix" in the dialect of the Ruhrgebiet), the offered translation of "Cave Canem" is "Nich am Hund packen".
Re: Czech
Posted: 2003-06-06, 4:14
by mind
Mara wrote:In Czech, we use the same expression as in Polish (of course translated into Czech
):
Pozor, zlý pes!
The same with Russian "Осторожно, злая собака".
Posted: 2003-06-06, 11:10
by NulNuk
in Rusian you allso translate Polish into CZech ??? :0o
Posted: 2003-06-06, 16:50
by Sou
Thai: ระวังหมาดุ (ra/wang-maa~du\) [be-careful dog fierce]
Lao: ລະວັງໝາຮ້າຍ (la-wang-maa~haai^) [be-careful dog bad]
Cave Canem
Posted: 2003-06-07, 3:34
by Mulder-21
In Faroese you'd say: Ansið eftir hundinum, although I've yet to see such a sign here.
The Danes say: Pas på hunden.
Posted: 2003-06-07, 12:03
by Emandir
En français : Attention au chien !
Another usual inscription is Chien méchant (Bad dog).
Jean-Luc
Posted: 2003-06-07, 16:55
by Zoroa
Basque : kontuz txakurrarekin
Posted: 2003-06-07, 17:38
by Doggie
:0o
ow ouw wauf rrrrrrrrrrrrrourf grrrrrrrrrrrrr wuafff!!! >:0{
wuaaaaaafffff ,grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! guaaaaaffffff ,wruaffffffff guag wuaf!!!!!! >:0{
!!!!!!!!!!!
gruaf ! wuaf gruafff brrrrrrrrrrrr grrrrr uawfff wrafffff uaf !!!!!!!!!! >:0{
Posted: 2003-06-07, 19:07
by NulNuk
Doggie is right ,Doggies are good ,cats are bads ! >:0{
there should be a sighn tellin ppl to be aware of the bad cats!!!! :0}
Posted: 2003-06-07, 21:51
by Saaropean
NulNuk wrote:Doggie is right ,Doggies are good ,cats are bads ! >:0{
there should be a sighn tellin ppl to be aware of the bad cats!!!! :0}
Posted: 2003-06-07, 23:49
by NulNuk
upe ,finally some justice !!!! ,cats are bad !!! :0}
Posted: 2003-06-08, 0:12
by Emandir
Oops, I forgot!
In wasa:
Fali uqayo ! [f'ali uN'ayO] Beware of the dog.
Nara uqayo [n'ara uN'ayO] Beware of the cat.
Jean-Luc