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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] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Um. Do you want Latin? Probably not, but here you go anyway.

Salvete

Legete

Audite

Create (or facete if you don't want it to look too like English)

Investigate (um, or explorate. That looks kind of wrong.)

Those are all polite-first-person-plural. But even though it's not strictly correct, singular looks cooler:

salve
lege
audi
fac/crea
investiga

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[personal profile] blackletter 2008-03-22 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Those are all polite-first-person-plural.

Second person plural imperative, actually. First person polite would have to be a Jussive/Hortatory Subjunctive. Like "Legamus"/"Let us read".

*can't stop the Latin teacher instincts...even during Spring Break*

[identity profile] toft-froggy.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh sorry, I meant second. *facepalm*