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Posted by timonator on Wed 02 of Dec, 2009 11:46 GMT posts: 85851

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derf and i just discussed wether iacu'i might be a better translation of
'o rly?'. what do you think?

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Timo
Paulssen<timonator@perpetuum-immobile.de> wrote:
> james riley wrote:
>> http://jbo.bravehost.com/myPictures/ianai.jpg
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> clarification:
> derf and i just discussed wether iacu'i might be a better translation of
> 'o rly?' than ianai is. what do you think?

But iacu'i/ianai are completely devoid of sarcasm. "o rly?" seems to
express some kind of fake naivete, but that is totally absent from
iacu'i/ianai, which is plain doubt or disbelief. Wouldn't something
like "ua ju'opei" be a more appropriate translation? (I'm not really a
user of "o rly?" so I'm just going by the wikipedia description.)

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Posted by lindarthebard on Wed 02 of Dec, 2009 11:47 GMT posts: 66

>But iacu'i/ianai are completely devoid of sarcasm. "o rly?" seems to
express some kind of fake naivete, but that is totally absent from
iacu'i/ianai, which is plain doubt or disbelief. Wouldn't something
like "ua ju'opei" be a more appropriate translation? (I'm not really a
user of "o rly?" so I'm just going by the wikipedia description.)

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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Well, I agree on that point. "O RLY?" comes with a level of sarcasm,
usually followed by an equally sarcastic "YA RLY" and then completing
with "NO WAI!!!".