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[fire_of_avalon]

ree-fay ake-cay

SO WRONG. In Pig Latin back to back consonants at the beginning of words always stay together. So free cake is ee-fray ake-cay.

I learned that in a Babysitter's Club book!

[rubah]

ellway atthay anday itay ustjay akesmay ensesay.

[Chemical]

French:
cake = Gâteau

But they don't have a word for free that means the same thing.
They're free is either
"sans" as in fat free
or "libre" as in "free Willy!"

You probably have to find something like "no cost" or something like that.

[rubah]

French:
cake = Gâteau

But they don't have a word for free that means the same thing.
They're free is either
"sans" as in fat free
or "libre" as in "free Willy!"

You probably have to find something like "no cost" or something like that.

gratuit

[Heath]

I was just about to give you German a second time so instead I offer you Welsh:

Cacennau am ddim.

[Blue Harvest]

In Harveyish it's Where!? Gimmee!

[Krelian]

They're accents :3 It shows you how to pronounce the word. There's 4 accents in total ^_^ I always get the 2nd and 3rd accents confused, they sound pretty much the same imo. :\

I don't want to contradict a native speaker, but accents isn't the right word for it. Rather, they're tones and the direction of the 'accents' illustrates how they're supposed to be pronounced. For example 'ā' is a high and constant tone, 'á' is a tone that starts low and rises up (like in a question), 'ǎ' is a tone that starts kind of high, goes lower and then upwards again and 'à' is a tone that starts high and quickly goes low, like in an command sentence (i.e. 'Stop!').

Was German mentioned already? It's 'Kuchen kostenlos' or 'Kuchen gratis'.

In Indonesian it's probably 'gratis kue' (gratis imported from Dutch). I'm not entirely sure, though =(

EDIT: Oops, you already have Germany. Sorry... XD

[Ramza Beoulve]

Spanish : "Pastel Gratis" (confirmation)

Although "Cerveza Gratis" would get you more clients xD

I don't really know in other languages, my memory is currently off.

[rubah]

They're accents :3 It shows you how to pronounce the word. There's 4 accents in total ^_^ I always get the 2nd and 3rd accents confused, they sound pretty much the same imo. :\

I don't want to contradict a native speaker, but accents isn't the right word for it. Rather, they're tones and the direction of the 'accents' illustrates how they're supposed to be pronounced.

like 'inflections'?

[Krelian]

like 'inflections'?

You mean if the different tones act like grammatical inflections? Then no, they can probably best be seen as separate vowels. A different tone just means a different 'vowel' then and can change the meaning of the word to something entirely different. Like in English 'ten' or 'tin'.

[rubah]

I don't know what a grammatical inflection is, but I know that an inflection is just the way your voice is pitched.

[Krelian]

Oh, sorry. XD Yes, it's similar to that, the difference is just that with intonation, if you get it wrong you'll just sound odd, with tones though, you may change the meaning of your words and you sometimes have to change tones several times in one word while intonation mainly focuses on whole sentences.

[Rantz]

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[Ramza Beoulve]

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Translate "free cake" to spanish in there and you'll get absolute FAIL :P

[Rantz]

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Translate "free cake" to spanish in there and you'll get absolute FAIL :P

Yeah, most translations work though, so it's a backup if starseeker can't find a Polish person.