It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow! This is a great occasion to express your feelings in all languages, and thanks to Freelang you will be able to say “I love you” in more than a hundred languages. We wish you love and happiness!
Scott had the correct answer to the question we asked in our previous post. It was indeed the flag of the Ainu people, which is also the latest dictionary added to our collection, thanks to our friend Charles Lippert.
Maybe the question was too easy or too difficult, I don’t know. So here is another one for you: can you give me an example of two countries which have the same flag? I can think of at least two different examples, if we don’t take the proportions of the flags into account.
Let’s play! 
Here are a few hints:
- This is the flag of a group of people whose language is classified as an isolate (it doesn’t belong to any family).
- The blue represents the sea and the sky, the white represents snow.
- In their traditional culture, the men never shave and thus wear full beards and moustaches. Women tatoo their lips.
Can you guess?
Page after page, we are now working on version 4.0 of our website. You can already see the new version on several dictionary pages, like Spanish, Dutch or Irish Gaelic. Each page is being carefully personalized, which is why it takes such a long time. The links to other websites are now included directly in the dictionary main pages, so the “link center”, our old directory of links, will be discarded and redirected.
We hope you like this new layout!
Freelang wishes you a Happy New Year 2009!
May this new year bring you health, prosperity and happiness for you and all your loved ones.
This is one of the most visited pages of the site at the moment: our collection of “Merry Christmas” in all languages. Not really all languages, of course, but exactly 90 languages (and counting), which is not that bad. Thanks to the feedback provided by all the people who visit this page, new translations are added on a regular basis, and existing translations can also be improved. So please beware of imitations (I mean the unscrupulous bloggers who copy/paste our data without our authorization). The updated list will always be found at Freelang!
Merry Christmas everybody, Joyeux Noël, Hyvää Joulua…!
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OK, it was not as smooth as we hoped it would be. Well, it never is, isn’t it? So maybe you noticed that the site was down for a few hours, then that most pages were loading slowly (due to a script not being authorized by the new server). But the good news is, everything is now back to normal. It’s even much better, as we are running on a much faster server (so the site should load faster than before).
Thank you for your patience!
“We are happy to announce that your current account freelang.net will be migrated to a new server.” This is the message we received from our hosting company. It is great news for us, as it will solve a few problems we’ve been experiencing lately (like loss of statistics data due to too much anti-spam activity), but it is also good news for all Freelang users, as it should improve the site’s performance.
The upgrade should be totally smooth, no downtime and no data loss. Of course we will make backups, just in case. But when we move to the new server, because of what is called “DNS propagation”, a few emails or a few changes in our databases could be lost. So if you send an email and you get no reply from us, please wait a little and send it again. Or if you log in as a translator to modify your data and you find out that the data has not been changed, please wait a little and log in again. Within 24 hours everything should be back to normal. The forum will not be impacted at all by this upgrade.
The sign on the picture below shows a warning in English, with its translation in Welsh. Whoever contacted the translator probably sent her or him an email, got the reply and had it printed it on the sign:
And here it what it says in Welsh: “I’m out of office at the moment. Please send me the text to be translated.”
Isn’t it priceless? Thanks to Anthos for posting this on our forum.
Translation mistakes can be fun sometimes, here are a few other examples that were sent to us by Manuela, another friendly and active forum member.
More fun at engrish.com…