Albanian | teveqel (dolt, dull, dummy, fool, foolish, imbecile, innocent, noodle, simpleton, zany), mumje (mummy). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميت أعيد الى الحياة, غيبوبة (coma, shock, stupefaction, stupor), الزومبية شراب مسكر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съживен с магия мъртвец, глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany), вид коктейл (old fashioned, sidecar, stinger), новобранец (boot, inductee, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, yard bird), автомат (automat, automation, machine gun, robot, submachine gun, tommy gun), дървеняк (ape, ape-man, bumpkin, loon, lubber, lubber-head, lug, lummox, numskull, pudding-head). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛇神. (various references) | |
Czech | tupec (blockhead, dullard), moula (drip, goon, mug), mátoha, chodící mrtvola, živá mrtvola. (various references) | |
French | zombi, mort vivant. (various references) | |
German | Zombie. (various references) | |
Greek | βρυκόλακασ (vampire), ζωντανόσ νεκρόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מת קם לתחי�", פולחן �"פיתון, א�"ם ר�"ום חסר מרץ, �'ופ�" מת�"לכת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | reaktivált ember. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang bebal (dunce, zombi), mayat hidup. (various references) | |
Italian | zombie. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ソ連 (Russia, Soviet Union, tar, target, term, terminal, terminal building, terminal care, terminator, turban, turbine, turbo, turbocharger, turquoise, zone, Zoroaster). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゾン�" . (various references) | |
Manx | corp fo ghruiaghtys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombiezay | |
Portuguese | zumbi, morto-vivo. (various references) | |
Romanian | prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched), nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, Dotty, driveller, duffer, dummy, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, silly, tomfool, wet), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, spectre, spook, wraith). (various references) | |
Russian | зомби (zombies). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zombi, oživljeni leš, natprirodna sila, bog zmija. (various references) | |
Spanish | zombi, autómata (automaton, robot). (various references) | |
Swedish | gengångare (ghost, spectre). (various references) | |
Thai | เทพเจ้างูในแอฟริกาตะวันตกและหมู่เกาะแถบอินเ�"ียตะวันตก, อำนาจเหนือธรรมชาติที่ทำให้ศพกลา�, อำนาจเหนือธรรมชาติที่ทำให้ศพกลับมามีชีวิตอีกครั้ง, ซากศพที่ถูกทำให้มีชีวิตขึ้นมาอีกครั้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | zombi (zombi), yaşayan ölü, yılan tanrı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудило (case), тупак (numskull), новобранець (boot, conscript, freshman, recruit, rookie), зомбі, перевертень. (various references) |
Friday, May 15, 2009
Stagger Around the World
Global Zombies (A Lesson in Cultural Assumptions):
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RB's bringin the zombee luv too? I'm touched!
Had we known, we would have sent you an official badge.
In Haitian voodoo zombification potions are made using puffer fish.
Badgers? We don't need no steenkeen badgers!
Besides, RB has Burt up there in the sidebar. Doesn't get much more zombie than Old Burt.
I love mort vivant!!! It's got a certain je ne sais quoi and yet, would make a great Vegas headliner as well!
verification word?? respent... sounds like you, ZRM.
I was so amused by mort vivant that I forgot the original intent of my visit.
RB- a badge is on its way. Feel free to use or ignore.
Mort Vivant? Didn't he take over Danny Gans' slot?
So Manx is the only Gaelic language with a word for 'Zombie'? I suppose in Welsh and Gaelic you can just use the word for 'English'.
Come to think of it, Manx must be pretty much a zombie language.
Manx also has the wonderful "gluttyn" for wolverine.
The last native [Manx} speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974, but in recent years it has been the subject of language revival efforts, and it is now the medium of education at the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh, a primary school for four- to eleven-year-olds in St. John's, Isle of Man.
OH NOES ZOMBEE LANGWIDGE!!!
I can see that you're going to have a lot of fun with Webster's Online Dictionary.
New Zealandese has no word for zombie??? Unless it's "Gidday" that is the sekrit password.
Men, Capcha Surgical Industries recommends the "renine" operation. Get those tired testicles renined.
I guess it's pretty clear that тупак must be a zombie...
I guess we've learned what we needed to know about Tupec Shakur, Czech Zombie Rapper Extraordinaire.
Now I understand how he keeps coming out with all those new albums post mortem...
mikey
Also, the high priewfu of Captcha has asked me to worship him. Or something...
Can't tell the Zombies without the Thesauro-zombie.
Pudding-head? From the old "Tiger" comic strip?
RB has been brain-devoured.
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It must have been the pudding...
Pure laziness. Which I understand is a symptom of zombosity.
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