Urgent! Need language help!

Hi people, I'm travelling on Wednesday to Amsterdam to start off my Europe trip. I'm taking poi on a plane and I usually put labels on them to say what they are in the hope that whoever's checking them will leave them be and bugger off!

So I was thinking, it might be useful for other travellers too, we should start and interlingual list of Poi explanation phrases!

Something along the lines of "Spinning poi, used to recreate the maori arts, please handle with care."

Thanx you guys!

Caz xx

Thanx to funk-fish I have dutch :-D

"Spinning poi, werd gebruikt om de maori kunst te creëren, ga er alsjeblieft voorzichtig mee om"

I love me an caz does 2

Hehehe!

I think in Italian it should be something like "Maori Poi" un gioco dei Maori, Fragile.

And "Les chaines de poi, pour recréer une tradition maori. Fragile!" In French

except poi = pea...

I think Cass (resident froglet ) said something about Bolas, which isn't technically right, but it gets understood... Or "chaines de feu"

"He poi rerea, hai whakaatu toi Maori, KIA TUPATO!"

Which language is that!?!

Yeh thanx for reminding me about poi=pea. Theres the same problem in Italian poi=then. Grrr... I wanna try and dodge around the fire thing if possible.

Zut alors!

Caz x

Maori

Lol, Maori is such a beautiful rythmic language... could never get used to the 'wh' as 'f' sound, tho.

Check out this site: http://www.freetranslation.com/

It's quite good... not great, but it'll do the job

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"could never get used to the 'wh' as 'f' sound, tho" quote Firepoise

LOL thats cause u live in BELFAST MAN!

Que girando poi, às artes de maori, por asa de favor com cuidado : Portuguese

LMFAO OMFG this free translator is insane!

free translators are crap! Just try translatin something, into say Italian, and then back. You get completely different answers! Thanx for the thought tho!

Caz x

heheheh... yep... it's not perfect... tis ok for really basic stuff tho... I suppose you could pay if you wanted it exactly right.

And it's different when you change it back cos no languages are direct translations of another - just similar interpretations.

Also, Dragon, I lived in Auckland for most of last year... then travelled round the country. I always had problems with Whangarei (Fangarey?!!)

xx