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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

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.

[identity profile] paceus.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
In Finnish:

Welcome - Tervetuloa
Read - Lue
Listen - Kuuntele
Create - Luo
Explore - Tutki

[identity profile] thefourthvine.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! *admires*

(Are there supposed to be any marks or anything over any of the letters? I spent a great deal of time fighting with a Finnish website recently*, and there were, you know, marks on the letters there.

* To no very successful end. Apparently, if I want a replacement stylus for Best Beloved's internet tablet, I will have no choice but to send in a Finnish secret agent. Know any?)

[identity profile] paceus.livejournal.com 2008-03-23 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Are there supposed to be any marks or anything over any of the letters?

You know, I looked at this question and wondered what website you were visiting because Finnish does not have any marks over any letters... and then after five minutes I realised that you meant ä and ö. They are so familiar to me that I'd forgotten about them. No, these words don't have any markings, by coincidence! "Weird markings over the letters" mean to me á and ë -- ä and ö are just normal. ("There's water around me?" asked the fish.)

Apparently, if I want a replacement stylus for Best Beloved's internet tablet, I will have no choice but to send in a Finnish secret agent. Know any?

Hmm, no. However, I'm willing to offer my services. I have no prior experience of being a secret agent but I've watched both Bond movies and Alias -- how hard can it be? *g* I hope this comment doesn't crash your browser or produce a lot of odd squares or something, as rarer letters sometimes do.