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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.

Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[identity profile] jcbdragon.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Translations into Elvish:

Welcome
Aiya "Hail," as greeting
Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo, "a star shines upon the hour of our meeting"

Read
Cenda

Listen
Lasta

Create
Onta

Explore
Saca, "pursue, look for, search"



And just because I couldn't resist it...

Translations into Redneck: ::g, d, rlh::

Welcome
Howdy. also "Hey, y'all"

Read
This is a difficult term to translate into Redneck, as the concept does not get applied much. The closest translation I could come up with was along the lines of, "Whuzzat say?"

Listen
Pay uh-tenshun

Create
Whip up

Explore
Look over yonder-ways

Re: Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[identity profile] teresa-c.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL!

/end delurk

Re: Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[identity profile] acari.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude!

Is that Quenya or Sindarin? I wonder if LJ code accepts Tengwar letters in comments. Must find out.

/end geek
rhi: A cheerful gryphon, facing right, one forepaw up (cheerful gryph)

Re: Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[personal profile] rhi 2008-03-23 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
He's currently covered in paint, but says he thinks it's Quenya. And now I'd better go back to painting too....

Re: Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[identity profile] cpt-untouchable.livejournal.com 2008-03-23 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
It's Quenya, and the redneck translation? Made of win.

Re: Translations: Elvish and Redneck

[identity profile] jcbdragon.livejournal.com 2008-03-23 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks -- I couldn't resist!