thefourthvine | Help, friends list?

Help, friends list?

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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Singular, please!

Latin:

Salve

Lege

Audi

Crea

Explora

Ancient Greek (transliterated -- I don't know how to get proper Greek letters on LJ, but if you want Greek script, I can spend some time working it out (something I should have done long ago anyway...)):

Chaire

Anagignoske

Akoue

Phuteue

Katoskope

Awesome! Thank you so much!

And, well, I admit I'm curious about what it would look like in proper Greek letters, but you are busy, and I don't really need it, so no need to invest the time unless you want to. Just - Greek is very pretty! I'm kind of a writing whore! *admires own icon*

Your icon makes me twitch because in actual ancient Greek pronunciation, transcribed into English, it says 'Etths - tee ueeinetsal laeeguage'. I keep wanting to know what 'Etths' means, and then I realize the problem is all in my mind.

I was doing the same thing...trying *really hard* to read it and coming out with "Stths" pronounced in my head and a big blank for what it might mean...

Oh, is that a sigma? I couldn't remember if it was a big E or a big S. Actually that's better, because at least 'Stths' is funny. The universal language of snake, maybe?

Greek Parceltongue!

*dies* your icon! is there context?

It's a bit of Aeschylus' Agamemnon that's marked by crux desperanda (at least in my Oxford text). So it's like a double joke. Not only can non-Greek readers not understand it, but even the Oxford editor couldn't quite figure out what was going on.

(It literally translates to something like "the heart-devouring mind of pain".)

Oh, thank god, I just spent about ten minutes trying to understand that. I got something like, 'the heat-bodied soul of a wolf?'. I thought maybe it was a Sirius/Lupin Greek joke... (what? That could happen!)

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Yeah, I spent awhile staring at it, going: "The heartbreaking soul of pain? The soul-destroying mind of grief? Does this--what does it *mean*?" Awesomeness!

...Now I want a Greek parceltongue icon.

I love you guys SO MUCH, and this is such an awesome thread. If you'd been my middle school Latin teacher, I would probably have enjoyed the class a whole lot more. (But I would not wish that on anyone. Eleven middle school girls. It was...well. You can imagine, I think.)

I'm now dying at the idea of Greek parceltongue. It... it is spelt parseltongue in HP, right? Because I just can't get past the idea of parceltongue.

Re: Harry! Your tongue! It's in violation of several packaging restrictions!

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ahahaha yeah it is a sigma. I definitely had a moment of "Stths?" as well.

*snerk*

I am making a mental note to avoid using that icon in the presence of classicists. They're the last people I want to make twitchy, because we all know what happens when classicists go bad.

PEOPLE DIE.

*has seen it happen*

I haven't been able to figure out how to get Greek onto a comment, but I did (I think) get it on a post. So it's here on my journal.

You may already know this route, but one way to get greek letters in lj (a time consuming way, admittedly) is the same way people get ♥, i.e. with html. link (http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html).

No, I didn't know about html Greek. Thank you! (Although you aren't kidding about time consuming...)

Trying another thing...

Χαιρε

Αναγιγνοσκε

Ακουε

Φυτευε

Κατοσκοπε

WOOT! You are made of awesome, and have achieved successful LJ comment Greek. *impressed*

Thank you.

*takes a bow*

*is smug about newly acquired mad Greek html skillz*

...You're going to use your new superpower for evil, aren't you? *knows what classicists are like*

Bwhahahah!

I mean...no! Why ever would you think that?

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