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	German	English
	Was wollen Sie als Beilage?	What do you want on the side? [Am.]
	Was wollen Sie damit andeuten?	What are you trying to suggest/imply?
	Was wollen Sie denn damit andeuten?	Just what are you implying/insinuating?
	Was wollen Sie denn wissen?	So, what do you want to know?
	Was wollen Sie damit sagen?; Was verstehen Sie darunter?	What do you mean by this?
	"Die schwarze Szenesprache ist derart codiert" erklärt sie, "dass man immer hinterfragen muss, was wollen die Leute eigentlich sagen." So machte sie aus Codes wie "Yo man" und "shit" "die hundertfünfzig Bedeutungen haben können", in einem Gespräch unter Crackdealern den Satz: "Oh Mann, wir müssen das arme Schwein unbedingt im Krankenhaus besuchen. Den hat's übel erwischt." [G]	"The street language of the blacks is so coded" she explains, "that you always have to think about what the people really want to say." She therefore turned codes such as "Yo man" and "shit", "which can have a hundred and fifty different meanings", in a conversation between crack dealers into the line: "Oh Mann, wir müssen das arme Schwein unbedingt im Krankenhaus besuchen. Den hat's übel erwischt" (Hey man, we have to visit the poor guy in hospital. He's in a bad way).
The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute. Sentences marked by [EU] derived from DGT Multilingual Translation Memory. The European Commission retains ownership of the copyright in the original data.