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[thefourthvine]

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.

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[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Have you had Italian yet? If not:

Welcome = benvenuto (sing), benvenuti (pl)

Read = leggi (informal), legga (formal)

Listen = ascolta (inf), ascolti (fml)

Create = crea, crei

Explore = esplora, esplori

Disclaimer: not a native speaker. But I have a degree in Italian, I am doing doctoral research on Italian history, and I just spent a year living in Rome.

And I guess you haven't had Maori yet (indigenous language of my homeland, New Zealand). I'm afraid I don't know the imperative form, so these are the bare verbs.

Welcome = Haere mai!

Read = pānui

Listen = whakarongorongo

Create = auaha

Explore = whakatōmene

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

Heh...of course, now I go back and look, you've already had two Kiwis comment :)

[hypertwink.livejournal.com]

Filipino (Tagalog)

Welcome -
noun: maligayang pagdating / verb: salubungin
but as a greeting, we use Mabuhay (kinda like Aloha)

Read - magbasa or basahin

Listen - makinig

Create - lumika or gumawa

Explore - tuklasin

[aderam.livejournal.com]

Ancient Greek!

(After the Akkadian and the Sumerian I must admit I'm a little shocked to be the one to add it! 150 comments down the line...)

Welcome - υποδεχου, υποδεχεσθε (oup-o-dex-ou, oup-o-dex-es-th-e) This is like the "to bring under your roof" kind of welcome. I couldn't find anything else.
Read - αναγιγνωσκε, αναγιγνοσκετε (ana-gig-nos-ke, ana-gig-nos-ke-te)
Listen - ακουε, ακουετε (a-kou-e, a-kou-e-te)
Create - ποιει, ποιειτε (poi-e-ye, poi-e-ye-te) More "to do", or "to make".
Explore - εξερευνα, εξερευνατε (ex-e-reu-na, ex-e-reu-na-te) "to search out, examine"

All of these are verbs in the imperative singular then plural. There's no real sense of politeness if you use the plural for just one person though. Some of these were really tricky to find because for some reason Greek-English dictionaries don't have an English-Greek section, so there might be a better word out there that I just couldn't find.

What a cool idea!

*uses very appropriate icon*

[delurker.livejournal.com]

I can have a crack at Old Norse for you in a few days. But it's entirely likely that what I would produce would be slightly off.

Hmm. Welcome could go something like:
- vel-kominn, pp. welcome (biðja e-n vera -kominn = wish someone be welcome)
- taka vel við e-m, to receive one well, give one a hearty welcome; (lit. take well with someone)
- kom heill! welcome (lit. come healthy/whole! I get the impression this is what you say when you see your friend appears on your doorstep - that kind of ritual welcome)

Some of these would need tweaking, and I'm a bit iffy on the first one.

Anyway, I must get back to work.

Re: *uses very appropriate icon*

[sarka.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD THE ICON.

*stares*

That is one of the awesomest things I've ever seen.

... and I don't know old Norse, except insofar as these are Icelandic, right?

[colliedog137.livejournal.com]

Morse code (not actually a language, but everything else I know has been taken, and I have the overwhelming urge to participate in this):
Welcome .-- . .-.. -.-. --- -- .
Read .-. . .- -..
Listen .-.. .. ... - . -.
Create -.-. .-. . .- - .
Explore . -..- .--. .-.. --- .-. .

Slovenian

[(Anonymous)]

Slovenian

Welcome: Dobrodošli

Read: Beri

Listen: Poslušaj

Create: Ustvari

Explore: Raziskuj

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

also got nothing to add, except this thread is made of win. :-)

-bs

*delurks to add Polish*

[ladysunflow.livejournal.com]

Polish versions, 1st person singular imperative

I'm assuming these will be on some sort of motivational signs or posters... because I'd use different forms if these were to be, say, menu items in a piece of software or website (e.g. "listen" as in "listen now to this live feed" would be "posłuchaj", "create" as in "create a journal" would be "stwórz", etc.)

Anyway, for general/motivational:

welcome: witaj

read: czytaj

listen: słuchaj

create: twórz

explore:
[~ "do research, study"] - badaj
[~ "discover"] - odkrywaj

[squigglepie.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind terribly me hijacking this post!
I was stitched_scars but have switched a less er, melodramatic name: squigglepie! I had friended you, you had friended me (I think there was a immediate connection of rainbows and gold!) (No? Just me? Okay, I guess.), and I would dearly love to continue such a relationship!

Thanks, sorry for the all the bother!
the new and improved squigglepie

PS. Bilingual/multilingual people are awesome. Despite the fact that I live in a city with 2 official languages, and am in the *french section* of that city, I am sadly monolingual.

Welsh

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

I know you've had at least two of these already, but...

Welcome (noun) - croeso

All of the following are verbs - many Welsh verbs don't alter much (or at all) with different tenses so these are less changeable than, say, German or French verbs.

Read - darllen

Listen - gwrando

Create - creu

Explore - fforio (exploring land) (or archwilio (exploring ideas))

[countessmary.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the mass type emailing thing but I want to get this to as many of you as possible. I went back a few entries to it's less likely that charmax will actually see this.

I'm putting together, in conjunction with ch_wg, a prezzie for charmax's wedding. I'm putting together a goofy dance video for part of the present and I wanted to use pictures from her friends saying congrats. How much you're actually in the picture is up to you. I know some of you are fiercely private so you don't have to be in the picture yourself. Take a picture of your dog with a sign in front of him that says "Congrats from (your username)" or what have you. Just so long as it says who it's from so that she'll know who's sending the love I don't care what you put on it. If you want to photoshop something feel free to do so. PLEASE make sure your image is horizontal. I can play with it so far as sizing but horizontal will definitely help me with sticking it in the video.

REMEMBER... this is a secret so no snitching. If you want to post something like this on your journal (with charmax filtered, of course) that would be great.

I need the picture(s) by this Sunday October 12th. Email your pictures to countessmary@gmail.com

Thanks,

Mary