Dear new recruit,

due to a few misunderstandings, we decided to hand out a small sheet containing a few valuable sentences from the eight official languages and their translations into English.
This however does not free you from your duty to keep on learning those languages - always keep in mind, your survival might depend on your knowledge of foreign languages...

The eight official atlantean languages

McKayish

It's impossible!!
(I wish it were ... )

It's impossible!
(Give me 2 hours, seven cups of coffee and somebody to blame in case it doesn't work.)

'rantrantinsultrantrantrant'
(Give me the damn thing so I can switch it off before it kills us all – and no coffee for you for the next five years!)

It's not that easy!
(It is, but I have to keep my reputation as the most brilliant man in whole Pegasus.)

It's quite easy, you only need to'insert explanation nobody can actually understand'.
(If you are BRILLIANT, like me it's easy – oh, and I am brilliant, trallalaa, I am brilliant, you're not, trallala!)

Uhm...
(How fast can you run?)

Sheppardish

... Piece of cake ...
(I hope you are masochistic or suicidal... unless you won't like what comes next.)

We only have toinsert random stupid idea
(Hey, what are the odds of the Wraith spotting us the second we get in there?)

...Plan...
(Stupid idea with back-up from random madness.)

...Mission...
(Official stupid idea with back-up from random madness and Dr Weir.)

What if we ...
(What are the odds of being incinerated the second we try to start this thing?)

We're almost there.
(I hope you packed your sleeping bags and enough MRE's for a week or so... I have no idea were the hell we are.)

Dexish

Time for some real sports.
(You'll soon wish you never were born.)

'glare'
(I can't rip off your head right now; but given some time I'll sure come up with something.)

You trust them?
(Can I kill them now or do I have to wait until after the banquet?)

'growl'
(You better start praying I set my gun on 'stun' and not 'kill')

Yeah?
(Earthians are strange people, duh.)

'grin'
(You're so dead...)

Emmaganish

The ways of my people are different...
(I thought it seen it all – and then you came to this galaxy. Oh my, Earthians are weird people...)

'huge bright smile'
(How much I'd like to run!)

Well...
(You are weird/insane/completely nuts, but unfortunately I'm way to polite to say so.)

The insert random people are friendly people, good farmers...
(... and never told us about their underground facilities, nuclear experiments and brute military government...)

'sigh'
(I volunteered to be on an offworld team – not to be the official babysitter for three grown men who behave like four year olds in a candy store...)

Zelenkanish

'muttermuttercursemutter'
(Who's for killing McKay - hands up!)

I fixed it.
(Well, I found a couple of mistakes and repaired a few things – don't blame me if those were the wrong things to fix!)

Why don't you go and ask Dr McKay? I'm sure he hasn't gone to bed yet..
(Since I'm not allowed to carry a gun with me, I have to come up with other means to deal with dumb arrogant scientists.)

'insert random foreign sounding speech'
(It's called Czech, not Russian, and you are even dumber than you look; McKay maybe louder, but I'm meaner, for you don't even know what insults I throw at you, blbec!)

Lorneish

This is Major Lorne, Colonel Sheppard to you read me?
(Please, let it be not the Wraith, not the Asurans, not any new evil Space lord and no undefinable alien entity this time! I really get sick of having him run into stuff like that!)

Doc...
(Have you got any idea how much I would love to leave you here and let you deal with this mess alone?)

Any volunteers for an offworld mission?
(I'm not Sheppard; my missions tend to work out and I rarely wake up any mean life sucking aliens.)

I'm an artist.
(And I rank high enough above you to make your life living hell if you say otherwise.)

KitchenChefish

Dinner is read!
(The ingredients are not moving any more, so we assume it's safe to eat.)

Of course this is coffee!
(Well, one percent of it surely does contain caffeine; don't you dare to run it through the mass spectrometer!!)

No, there's no citrus in it...
(And if you ask one more time, I will stuff a damn lemon up your !# to see if you're allergic for real!)

'sigh'
(I don't get enough pay for this sort of stuff – Billy, hand me the steak hammer... this is no vegetable...)

It's very healthy and nutritious.
(Who cares what the botanists say?)

Atlantish

ERROR: CAN'T FIND REQUESTED TERM IN DATABASE
(20,000 years of evolution, and you guys still try to look for porn the minute you get the access code to my database...)

UNKNOWN FUNCTION
(What the hell means 'screw yourself'? Unknown repair function, please install update)

'Woosh'
(You're in trouble deep my friend...)

PLEASE INSERT MORE ZMPS
(You can't get something for nothing McKay, no matter how often you try to change my basic codes.)

'boom'
(Not again... You guys really have a knack for finding things to blow up, haven't you?)

NO MORE WARM WATER AVAILABLE
(Geez, who did you piss off this time?)