< Not sure, which is the correct way to spell it?? > "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
I'll try to refrain from quoting 20-year-old action flicks from here on out. It's not very ladylike.
But, yes, I think you should be careful... ;)
I think it's "ay ay ay ay ay" in Spanish and "aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe" in French.
and
"ay yi yi"?
I think the five "ays" (or aïes) are really a bit more exclamatory and intense than the three "ay yi yi", which is more like, "oh my gawd <hits head with hand>", but really not so intense. But..of COURSE I wouldn't think to consider that it is spelled differently in different languages...and probably has other cultural comnnotations too... "ay yi yi..."
(Well, I am sorta in pain...pain from boredom of not being able to move around to easily...not so much knee pain, though that is there too. Anyway, thus the thoughts of long walks on long beautiful beaches. fantasy, all fantasy.) "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
Just write what you want to say using the IPA and we can then figure out how to render it with the conventions of various languages. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
Or something else entirely? :-)
