Leon

Sharon is retiring in January, and as a joke gift, one of the things I'd like to give her at the party is a card that will help her with a part time job. What I need from all of you is: How do I say "Do you want fries with that?" in as many languages as possible. One that would be important would be Russian. Can any of you that know other languages please post translations for that phrase? Thanks.

HipHotRod

Вы хотите картофель-фри с этим?

There's your Russian Leon.

voulez-vous de frites avec cela ?

French version

Go here:http://translation2.paralink.com/

afs9

From Bablefish:

вы хотите fries с тем?

¿usted quiere las fritadas con eso?
Most of these sites tend to translate things phonetically and I don't think the Spanish one is correct.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt
(no towel or fork required, but highly recommended!)

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ChevyMgr

Leon try freetranslation.com

twistrman

yes, these translators are often very very wrong, one way to check it though is is take what it gives you and translate it in reverse, and see if what you wanted comes back out of it.

I would suggest just what you are doing though, and find people that know the language to help translate and as a very last resort use an online one.

Have a mother in law who is a retired french teacher, 2 friends that have majors in french (who the hell knows why...) and a wife who studied french, I can tell you that the french translations are pretty much always wrong.

tireman1554

"Yo dawg! You be wantin fries wit dat?"

Ebonics.

saltyfishguy

that's just funny....

bigvalavgib

As a Russian speaker I vouch for post #2, it is correct.

Leon

Thanks. That one was important, the story goes back to around 1978.